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

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

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Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

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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

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

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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

Vaginal Yeast Infections: Why Women Get Them and What to Do About It

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Oceans of Blessings. Touch the Life of a Cancer Patient

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

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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

Want to Drink Less Alcohol?

Michael Hunter, MD - January 16, 2022

WHILE I AM NOT ONE TO MAKE New Year’s resolutions, I know that many of you make them to improve their health and better their...

Are Your Patients Asking about Wegovy?

September 20, 2023

The “Colors” of Sounds Have an Effect on All of Us

October 12, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

Pat Farrell PhD - March 6, 2022

I was fortunate enough to attend a session by Robert Frost many years ago in Lennox, MA, where he read one of his famous...

Five Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points Loom, Scientists Alert

December 13, 2023

The Social Innovation Summit: Catalyzing Societal Change

June 2, 2024

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: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

The Weight Loss Drugs That Refuse to Recognize Boundaries

Pat Farrell PhD - December 1, 2024

Drugs in the GLP-1 category are now being seen in a different light beyond that of weight control, and their promise is fascinating.

Chronic Bronchitis, a COPD

Medika Life - June 14, 2020

Chronic bronchitis is a type of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). COPD is a group of lung diseases that make it hard to breathe and get worse over time.

Skin Patch and Skin Prick Allergy Testing

Medika Life - June 28, 2020

This is used to evaluate for an underlying trigger/agent in individuals who develop contact dermatitis. Examples of contact dermatitis is the development of a rash after wearing certain metal jewelry

More Than Just Matzah Balls: Finding Meaning in the Modern Shabbat

Michael Hunter, MD - September 22, 2024

I’m not Jewish, but I take some lessons from the Torah to remind me to unplug, reflect, and renew.

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

Aspirin. Your Heart’s Best Friend, or Maybe Not

Medika Life - October 13, 2021

Aspirin is used by over 29 million Americans daily to prevent CVD and Stroke. New advice suggests we may want to rethink our use of the drug

mRNA Technology, Human DNA and The Traffic Flow of Genetic Material

April 10, 2021

The New Covid Vaccine Trials. Has Moderna Just Crossed an Ethical Line?

March 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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 28, 2021

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

Dr. Suzanne Humphries on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 5, 2020

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

May 23, 2021