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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

Christopher Nial -

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

Pat Farrell PhD -

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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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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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

Cancer — 13 Different Types Are Related to Being Overweight or Obese

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

Life Science Dominates Boston in June as BIO (and DHIS) Take Over Bean Town

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

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

2024 Health Trends: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - December 27, 2024

Here are 10 health-sector developments—not ranked—to watch in the coming year, determined by media coverage, reader interest, and personal interest.

Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch

November 10, 2022

NAMI Poll: Parents Want Mental Health Education in Schools, Mental Health Days Off for Students

December 20, 2021

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

20 People Who are Transforming the Health Ecosystem Through Practical Paths to Apply AI – 2025 Roster

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - February 26, 2025

Follow these 20 voices pioneering thinking around augmented intelligence and large language models (LLMs) and you will be ahead of the health transformation curve

Carrying On in a World That Can Seem Beyond Repair

October 12, 2022

The Chicken and Egg Problem of Fighting Another Flu Pandemic

June 16, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for an Endometrial Ablation by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

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

Key Takeaways from the ARVO 2024 Annual Meeting – the Vision Science Community Gathers

SriniVas Sadda MD - May 23, 2024

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) holds an annual meeting that serves as the main forum for the vision science community...

Beware of How You Hydrate This Hot Summer

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - July 3, 2021

Sometimes, drinking just water can be very dangerous in the summer heat.

Why Policymakers in Asia-Pacific Should Facilitate Digital Health Innovation

Aman Gupta - March 15, 2023

Re-invention, re-imagination, and transformation of the health sector across the world are enabled by technological capabilities and innovation.

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 Mechanics of Vaping and Its Medical Impact on Your Health

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - February 12, 2021

How safe is vaping? What medical literature exists to support claims of safety or the contrary? Medika examines the lucrative industry.

What are Vitamins and What Role do They Play in Your Health?

May 5, 2021

Covid Patients in India Warned About Scammers Selling Fake Medicines and Cures

April 26, 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 Want to Become the New Republic’s NIH

Medika Life - June 6, 2021

America's Frontline Doctors want you to call them now so they can prescribe dangerous medications based on a brief telehealth call, all for only $90

Why Polly Tommey Poses a Threat to Your Health and Your Children

April 14, 2021

Kerri Rivera on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 22, 2020