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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

Christopher Nial -

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

Pat Farrell PhD -

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

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Back to the Future of Medicine: The Physician Reimagined

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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OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTH

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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Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Startling Statistic: Growing Trend of Breast Cancer in Younger Females

Testosterone therapy: Does it Work for Women?

Top 13 Ways to Cut Dementia

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

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

KEEP IN TOUCH

The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

Flipping the Script on Cancer Prevention

The Quack Scale

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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We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

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Pfizer Confirms mRNA Vaccine Never Tested for Preventing COVID Transmission

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Fact-Checking Geert Vanden Bossche. Cashing in on Covid Misinformation

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Increase Inclusivity in Research by Reimagining Clinical Trials

Irfan Khan MD - October 12, 2022

Improving diversity in medical research requires more than patient engagement – it demands a rethinking of research infrastructure

One in Five Deaths Among Young Adults is Due to Alcohol

November 10, 2022

How Dare You Criticize Psychiatrists Who Praise Studies of Psychedelics As Antidepressants?

December 14, 2020

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - September 27, 2024

Beyond the Battlefield Citizens Confront a Different Enemy — Despair, Disease and Death

Confronting Climate Change — Includes Considering Its Naysayers

September 22, 2024

Forever Chemicals and Microplastics in Water More Dangerous to Health Than Thought

November 3, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

Macarthur Medical Center - November 1, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Robotic Hysterectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Whatever Happened to Isometrics as a Promising Muscle-Management Method?

Pat Farrell PhD - June 23, 2024

Exercise can be simple and a snap to incorporate into your life without equipment, and you can do it wherever you are, whenever you can.

No One Will Read This Article

John Nosta - March 17, 2025

Here’s the brutal truth about writing online in 2025: Nobody reads your blog posts.

A Virus May Cause Multiple Sclerosis

Michael Hunter, MD - January 15, 2022

HARVARD RESEARCHERS MAY HAVE discovered the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS). This progressive disease affects 2.8 million individuals worldwide, and there is no cure. In the...

Intermittent Fasting and Health

Michael Hunter, MD - February 8, 2022

TODAY WILL NOT ANSWER THAT CHALLENGING QUESTION: What is a healthy diet? Instead, I want to explore the health benefits of intermittent fasting once per...

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

How OMICS and Other Predatory Publishers Enable Scientific Fraudsters

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - December 27, 2020

Predatory Journals like OMICS and Pulsus pose a real danger to the scientific community and public alike.

Why Your Breast Milk May Already Be Too Toxic For Your Child

May 13, 2021

Perrigo Voluntarily Recalls Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Aerosol

October 28, 2020

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

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 8, 2021

Geert Vanden Bossche presents a real and present danger to America's covid vaccination program. Data shows the growing reach and influence he enjoys in the US and Canada

Dr. Judy Mikovits on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020

Dr. Stella Immanuel on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 25, 2020