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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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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

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

10 Top Tips to Drop Your Breast Cancer Risk

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

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

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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

Adult Bedtime Stories: Researched Fact or Clever Marketing?

Pat Farrell PhD - January 3, 2022

The pandemic has worsened insomnia experienced by adults in the US. It is a disturbance that adds to the difficulties the virus has wrought...

Self-indulgent Are Scamming the System with “Emotional Support” Animals

February 18, 2022

Voices of Chaos: The Archetypes of Social Media Banter

January 4, 2025

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

How Do We Americans Stack up Healthwise? Very Poorly!

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - July 17, 2022

Despite all, we spend on healthcare (over 4 trillion dollars or nearly 20% of GDP,) we are not a healthy population. So, how unhealthy are we? Very!

Israel Incubators, Accelerators and Private-Equity Groups Champion Pressing Climate-Tech Innovation

August 23, 2023

Contact Lenses and Cancer: Is There a Connection?

May 17, 2023

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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: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

HIMSS – Global Meeting Ground for Health Info Innovators to Secure Partnerships and Advance Care

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - March 4, 2024

10 Israeli Innovators Head Toward Orlando with New Approaches to Hospital Efficiency and Improved Patient Care - Showing Engineering Marvel and AI Potential

Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame

Anna Holtzman - June 27, 2023

This week, I’m doing something a little different. Instead of my usual blog post, I’m going to share with you an excerpt of a...

What are seizures?

Julian Willett, MD - February 24, 2021

Seizures are when there is synchronous and excessive electrical activity in the brain¹. Given that the nervous system works through electrical activity

Fear of Monkeypox Isn’t Irrational, It Makes Good Sense

Pat Farrell PhD - July 31, 2022

The monkeypox virus is so contagious and there is so much misinformation that fear is the current state of affairs. Who is properly addressing it?

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.

Vaccine Passports. Where Does Your State Stand? A List of all 50 States

July 7, 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

Nobel-Winning Virologist David Baltimore Eats Wuhan Crow

Science Duuude - June 10, 2021

Nicholas Wade suggested the Wuhan laboratory was a possible source for the coronavirus. He used David Baltimore smoking gun comment to validate his theory.

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

January 4, 2021