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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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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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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

How Endometriosis Causes Painful Periods and Affects Fertility

Dry Skin? The Truth about Water and Your Skin

10 Tips for Pumping and Working

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?

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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...

When A Healer Cannot Be Healed

September 17, 2022

Surprising Link Between Probiotics, Anxiety, and Depression

June 25, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Climate Week NYC 2024: The Runway of Global Climate Action

Nicole Grubner - September 13, 2024

Check out the trends that will shape the climate conversation for the new season.

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

September 27, 2024

Hidden Risks: Unveiling the Dark Side of Sunscreen

May 25, 2023

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EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

During a laparoscopic tubal ligation out-patient procedure, the fallopian tubes are tied, cut, or removed to permanently prevent pregnancy. Tubal surgery blocks the pathway between the uterus and ovaries preventing sperm from reaching the egg.

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

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.

Is Twitter Spaces The New Medical Grand Rounds?

John Nosta - January 8, 2023

Twitter offers a simple, powerful, and convenient platform to connect clinicians from around the world.

Finding Cancer: Ants Versus Dogs

Michael Hunter, MD - March 17, 2022

DO YOU KNOW THE FILM ALIEN VERSUS PREDATORS? Today, I want to put ants up against dogs, at least for detecting cancer in humans. We explore...

Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health

Michael Hunter, MD - May 25, 2022

Artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven analyses can help to assess mental health.

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

The Simple Truth Ivermectin and HCQ Supporters Fail to Acknowledge

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - September 7, 2021

The simple truth about the efficacy of HCQ and Ivermectin in treating Covid. It doesn't work. Here are the facts they choose to ignore.

America’s Frontline Doctors Face Long Overdue Medical and Legal Censure

August 9, 2021

COVID B.1.1.7 - How Widespread Is It in the U.S. and How Worried Should We Be?

January 16, 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

America’s Frontline Doctors Face Long Overdue Medical and Legal Censure

Medika Life - August 9, 2021

AFLDS or America's Front Line Doctors are about to come undone as state licensing authorities tighten restriction on medical misinformation

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

May 17, 2021

Dr. Stella Immanuel on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 25, 2020