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MENTAL

Primary Care for the Sickest of the Sick

Comprehensive Care Improves Health Yet Reduces Total Costs

ENVIRON

COP Summits: Milestones on the Path to Climate Justice?

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

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

A bilateral salpingectomy is an outpatient procedure to permanently prevent pregnancy and reduce the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer.

DISEASES

Stroke Patients Are Being Cast Aside by a Lack of Understanding and Bias

A stroke is often seen by too many as meaning permanent damage to someone's brain, and that's not the case, but the bias continues.

Congenital Heart Defects

Congenital heart defects, or diseases, are problems with the heart’s structure that are present at birth. They may change the normal flow of blood through the heart.

Alzheimer’s New Gene Discovery May Prove Decisive in Early Diagnosis or Not. What CAN You Do?

Based on studies of twins, AD is thought to be passed down 70% of the time.

Travel? Don’t Forget This.

HERE’S ME: IPAD TO WATCH FILMS? CHECK. Kindle for reading books and the New York Times? Again, check. Chargers for all my gear. Got it....

HEALTHY MINDS

SAFETY

The Mechanics of Vaping and Its Medical Impact on Your Health

How safe is vaping? What medical literature exists to support claims of safety or the contrary? Medika examines the lucrative industry.

CARDIO

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

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...

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Robert F Kennedy Jnr Appropriates Racism and Apartheid To Fuel Vaccine Fear

Robert F Kennedy Jnr's latest movie, Medical Racism, the New Apartheid is pure appropriation of racism and culture to fuel his aniti-vaccine campaign