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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

Pregnancy FAQs for the Covid-19 Pandemic

Flipping the Script on Cancer Prevention

Phexxi; Have You Heard About This New Hormone-Free Contraceptive?

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

The Quack Scale

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Does Mindfulness Slow Cell Aging?

Michael Hunter, MD - December 10, 2021

STRESS, DEPRESSION, PAIN, and more. Let’s explore what mindfulness meditation can do for your mind and health. Who amongst us does not experience stress? Unfortunately, chronic...

A Pandemic-inspired Lifestyle: How a virus and MR may change our lives

August 8, 2020

Resistant, Searing Fear in the ER/ED

August 26, 2020

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Hidden Risks: Unveiling the Dark Side of Sunscreen

Michael Hunter, MD - May 25, 2023

DO YOU HAVE TROUBLE SELECTING A SUNSCREEN? Unlike during my youth, we now have a myriad of sunscreen options.

How ESG is Changing the Pharmaceutical Industry

January 1, 2023

Climate Change May Affect the Winter Blues in Ways Unknown Before

October 11, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Myomectomy, an easy way to remove submucosal uterine fibroids.

Preparing for: Vaginal Hysterectomy

October 27, 2020

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

November 4, 2020

DISEASES

Why Are the Elderly the Greater Number Hospitalized with Covid?

Pat Farrell PhD - July 26, 2022

The COVID statistics are worrisome, but there’s a problem with them and it needs to be noted for everyone’s awareness and safety.

Step Aside, Coffee — The Health Benefits of Tea

Michael Hunter, MD - September 1, 2022

WHILE TEA APPEARS TO HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS, most research investigations have been done in regions where green tea is the predominant type.

Is Technology Reinforcing the Very Essence of “Sick Care?”

John Nosta - September 9, 2024

Why Prevention Lags Behind in the AI Revolution

Infection Control, Physicians’ Offices, and Our Health May Be in Serious Jeopardy

Pat Farrell PhD - August 18, 2024

The current state of medicine and consolidation, plus corporate and equity purchases, is causing concern in healthcare

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

Gain of Function Research. Have We Opened Pandora’s Box?

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - June 4, 2021

How dangerous is Gain of Function research really and what risks does it pose to us for future pandemics. We explore this branch of science and examine

Voluntary Recall: Two Lots of NP Thyroid® Tablets, Due to Sub Potency

September 19, 2020

Fact-Checking Prof. Roland Wiesendanger Covid Claims About Wuhan Laboratory

February 19, 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

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

Science Duuude - May 29, 2021

Nicholas Wade debunked by real virologists. His Origin of Covid theory is flawed. He misinterprets and misrepresents science and scientists. Wade is exposed

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

March 23, 2021

Simone Gold and America’s Frontline Con Artists Launch a Road Trip

May 9, 2021