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For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

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Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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Trump’s Drug Price Gambit: Cheaper for America, But Who Pays the Price?

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How Real-World Evidence Proves the Power of Patient Engagement

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How the growing trade war could affect biopharma intellectual property

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‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

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A Digital Turning Point in Migraine Care: CT-132 FDA Approval to Market is a Win for Patients and Proof that Clinical Evidence Matters

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Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson’s Health Wake-Up Call

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Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

Women Suffer Because of Medical Misinformation About Debilitating Menstrual Pain

Your Body Ages in Leaps: Stanford’s Surprising Findings at Ages 44 and 60

Hot Flash Hack: The Latest Breakthrough for Menopausal Relief

A Cycling Accident Saved My Life

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

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The Power of Lifestyle Choices – The Dose of Truth in “Heal Thyself”

John Whyte MD - April 24, 2022

“You need to lose weight.” Doctors say that to patients every day. What they don’t do is tell patients how to do it. That’s...

How Somatic Body Responses Benefit Your Coaching Practice

December 29, 2020

The Social Innovation Summit: Catalyzing Societal Change

June 2, 2024

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COP Summits: Milestones on the Path to Climate Justice?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - August 20, 2024

Losing sight of the long game is easy in a world where the media revolves around controversy. In a partisan political environment, tension and...

Carrying On in a World That Can Seem Beyond Repair

October 12, 2022

The Environment and Our Health. Medika’s Open Call for Articles from Stakeholders

July 30, 2021

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Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

Macarthur Medical Center - November 4, 2020

When the baby is delivered through an incision in the abdomen and uterus, it is called a cesarean section or C-section delivery. Information on the procedure

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June 3, 2020

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June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Healthcare and Medical Care Are Not the Same – The Difference is Very Important

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - August 12, 2022

This is the 9th article in a series on America’s dysfunctional healthcare system

What It’s REALLY Like to Hear the Words: “You Have Cancer”

Stacy Hurt, MHA, MBA - March 20, 2022

In any word association exercise, the word cancer is most often linked with death. Maybe two percent of outliers would say “tumor” or “sick”,...

Nashville: Health Innovation Hits the Right Notes at ViVE 2025

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - February 16, 2025

More than 8,000 Health Leaders Gather in the Nation's Health Hub for ViVE as Chilly Weather Blows Down from the Nation's Capital.

Hockey Fan Spots Melanoma

Michael Hunter, MD - January 4, 2022

NOT JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT a hockey game. The Canucks faced off against my Seattle Kraken. Sitting behind the arena glass, a young woman spies...

HEALTHY MINDS

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

June 1, 2025

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

June 1, 2025

How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

May 23, 2025

Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

May 21, 2025

Death Is Not A Failure

May 15, 2025

Cancer Isn’t Random: What 42% of Diagnoses Have in Common — and How You Can Lower Your Risk.

May 2, 2025

When Is Exercise Not Exercise, and Is That Good Enough?

May 2, 2025

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Opioids. Everything you need to know about America’s Most Lethal Drugs

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 15, 2021

Opioid overdoses related to illegally manufactured fentanyl (the most powerful of the opioids) represented the greatest contribution to the increasing numbers

Exposing the Dark World of Predatory Health

December 31, 2020

Getting the Story Straight on PCR…

May 17, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2025

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

Beans Are Now the Super Food That We All Need, So Get Ready for a New Diet

March 13, 2025

Multivitamins and Longevity: A Data-Driven Deep Dive

February 26, 2025

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Andrew Wakefield, the ultimate medical con on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - April 17, 2021

Andrew Wakefield is the greatest medical fraud of our generation. Guilty of malpractice, misleading the public, lying, falsifying data, and causing vaccine

America’s Frontline Doctors Want to Become the New Republic’s NIH

June 6, 2021

Why Polly Tommey Poses a Threat to Your Health and Your Children

April 14, 2021