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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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Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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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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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

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Interstitial Cystitis (bladder pain syndrome)

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

Heart Disease: Seven Keys to Dropping Your Risk

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

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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

The Quack Scale

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

Clinical Trials As a Care Option – the Time is Now

Irfan Khan MD - January 4, 2023

Creating more effective, safer medicines starts with empowering new communities to join in on clinical research

The Journal – Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences – Highlights the Contributions of Women in Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences

February 1, 2023

Are Lives Lost by Cognitively Impaired/Drug-Abusing Physicians? Who Reports Them?

June 1, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Parkinson’s: What’s Behind the Fastest-Growing Brain Disease?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 25, 2023

COULD PARKINSON’S DISEASE DRAMATIC RISE result from exposure to a common chemical?

A Business Approach To Reducing Healthcare Costs

October 3, 2022

Monsanto, Roundup, and Glyphosate. Whose Side is Science on and Why it Matters to Us?

May 21, 2021

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Polypectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Colposcopy

June 25, 2020

DISEASES

Weather and Mental Disorders: Heat, Humidity, & Temperature Matter

Michael Hunter, MD - August 30, 2022

EXPOSURE TO CERTAIN WEATHER CONDITIONS can trigger severe symptoms of mental disorders, leading to the need for emergency care.

Are Lives Lost by Cognitively Impaired/Drug-Abusing Physicians? Who Reports Them?

Pat Farrell PhD - June 1, 2022

Oversight of cognitively impaired or drug-abusing physicians/healthcare workers is a serious, delicate matter.

What Are Coronaviruses and How Do They Cause Covid-19

Medika Life - June 25, 2020

Coronaviruses and how the SARS-CoV-2 strain causes Covid-19. Learn about the evolution of coronaviruses and your risk for covid-19

RAST, Radioallergosorbent antibody test

Medika Life - June 27, 2020

RAST s a blood test using radioimmunoassay test to detect specific IgE antibodies, to determine the substances a patient is allergic to

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

Understanding Mask Terminology, N95/KN95/N99, and What to Buy

Medika Life - January 28, 2021

Learn about which masks offer the most protection against Covid-19 and what the terms mean as far as the masks efficacy is concerned. Which mask should you buy.

The Simple Truth Ivermectin and HCQ Supporters Fail to Acknowledge

September 7, 2021

Kratom, the Undiluted Truth. Is it a Dangerous Drug or a Godsend?

December 12, 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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 23, 2021

Geert Vanden Boscche has made outlandish claims about the Covid vaccines and suggested they will end humanity. We debunk his claims with substantive sources.

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

May 8, 2021

Dr. Sherrill Sellman on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 30, 2020