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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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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

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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

Is Social Media to Be Trusted for Health Information?

Understanding Hormones: the roles of Estrogen and Progesterone

Preparing for an Endometrial Biopsy

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

How to Reduce Chronic Symptoms When You’re Stuck in a Stressful Situation

Anna Holtzman - July 15, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, I made a post on Instagram about the bodily stress and symptoms that can result when you find yourself caught in...

First Drug Synthesized by AI Goes into Clinical Trials

November 18, 2020

Quitting Alcohol Drops Your Cancer Risk, Right? Not So Fast.

February 19, 2024

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria Found in Dog Food

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - July 14, 2021

Understandably, the world has been hyperfocused on the global SARS CoV-2 pandemic. It has wreaked - and continues to wreak - havoc on many...

Why Your Breast Milk May Already Be Too Toxic For Your Child

May 13, 2021

How To Use a Controversial Supreme Court Ruling for Good

August 17, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

Macarthur Medical Center - November 1, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Robotic Hysterectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

November 4, 2020

Preparing for: Colposcopy

June 25, 2020

DISEASES

Old Theories, Questionable Experts, and Mental Disturbances Need to Be Deconstructed

Pat Farrell PhD - January 14, 2022

Zeitgeist is a word we don’t often use today, but it is as relevant today as it was when I attended graduate school. Yet, we...

Does Artificial Intelligence (#AI) Chatbot Outperform Physicians in Patient Experience?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - May 18, 2023

JAMA Article Draws Fire for Its Research Biases on ChatGPT and Chatbot - But Should We Ignore Its Conclusions Altogether?

Does Vitamin D Drop Cancer Risk?

Michael Hunter, MD - November 29, 2022

DESPITE GREAT RESEARCH EFFORTS, there is no consensus on whether vitamin D has an anti-cancer effect. That is the conclusion of a 2018 review.

Is the Developed World Lightyears Ahead in Public Health? Maybe not!

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - April 5, 2022

Amanda McClelland is the Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives. As an expert in international public health management, Amanda...

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

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

September 19, 2020

Vaccines need to Distance Themselves from Covid. It is Imperative.

December 5, 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

How Medika’s Quack Scale Works

Medika Life - November 15, 2020

To help you sort out the schemers and con artists Medika has set up our own Quack Scale for you to easily and quickly identify healthcare professionals that pose a risk to your health and mental wellbeing.

Roby Mitchell (Dr. Fitt) on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 23, 2020

Another AFLDS Quack, Meet Dr. Peterson Pierre

October 24, 2022