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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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How to Find Out If You Can Get Pregnant?

How Best to Protect Your Unborn Child against Whooping Cough and Influenza

Sickle Cell Disease in women

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

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The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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

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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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Pfizer Confirms mRNA Vaccine Never Tested for Preventing COVID Transmission

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

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The Nervous System and Its Relationship to Cancer’s Hacks

Pat Farrell PhD - February 4, 2024

Cancer doesn’t grow in a vacuum but has extraordinary abilities to use our body’s nervous system for its growth.

A Digital Turning Point in Migraine Care: CT-132 FDA Approval to Market is a Win for Patients and Proof that Clinical Evidence Matters

April 15, 2025

Saving Relationship Medicine with Direct Primary Care

August 28, 2022

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Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

Michael Hunter, MD - April 19, 2021

Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer worldwide in men and the second leading cause in women. Five pro tips on how you can reduce your risk of lung cancer.

Dangers in Household Chemicals May Impair and Damage Brain Cells

March 28, 2024

The Power of Words

July 9, 2021

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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 an Endometrial Biopsy

October 11, 2020

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

The Strange Story of Heart and Erectile Dysfunction Medicines

Michael Hunter, MD - October 3, 2023

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FERID MURAD recently died at age 86. He showed that nitric oxide — an air pollutant — is central to blood vessel...

When Death Is Inevitable, Why Is Our DNR Ignored?

Pat Farrell PhD - October 8, 2022

A peaceful death is what all of us wish for, and with that in mind, many will prepare a DNR form. Why do healthcare professionals ignore our requests?

The Health System Will Not Be Transformed by Amazon – But It Will Improve

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - July 26, 2022

Just days ago, Amazon announced it would purchase One Medical in an all-cash $3.9 billion deal.

Was 2019 a High-Water Mark for Global Public Health?

Richard Hatzfeld - February 25, 2022

There is a reason most children today live into adulthood, women around the world no longer feel like surviving childbirth is a roll of...

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 Complete Dummies Guide to Covid PCR Testing for Conspiracy Fans

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 25, 2021

PCR tests have revolutionized many areas of Medicine and are very reliable tools that are dependent on being used correctly to ensure accuracy

Gain of Function Research. Have We Opened Pandora’s Box?

June 4, 2021

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

October 13, 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

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - January 4, 2021

Zach Bush, MD scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. Bush has become the poster boy for alternate/complementary health and mixes pseudoscience and mystical mumbo-jumbo with his own brand of traditional medicine

Dr. Sherrill Sellman on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 30, 2020

Another AFLDS Quack, Meet Dr. Peterson Pierre

October 24, 2022