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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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Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

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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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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

Here is a Solution to Painful Sex

Understanding Breast Conditions and Treatments

Deceptive Fairy Tales and the Desperate Worshiping at the Altar of Beauty

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

Laughing Is A Scientifically Proven Stress Solution

Michael Hunter, MD - November 17, 2023

In the hustle and bustle of modern life, stress has become an unwelcome companion for many.

Name Calling Is a Needed Skill You Must Practice

January 18, 2023

Fish Oil Reversal: New Study Says Supplements Might Not Be What You Think for Heart Health

May 31, 2024

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

5G Cell Towers May Be Endangering Our Health

Pat Farrell PhD - November 13, 2022

Diplomates worldwide began suffering unusual physical symptoms in 2016 that were unexplainable by medical testing. Were countries like Cuba, Russia, and others using new...

The Path to COP29: How Preceding Meetings Will Shape Climate Negotiations

August 4, 2024

The Recycling Lie – How Corporations Duped Us Into Drowning in Plastic

April 28, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

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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: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Are Supplements Really the Answer to Anxiety, Depression, and Everything Else?

Pat Farrell PhD - June 19, 2022

Perhaps you’d like to try something organic, or you don’t want medication, and you want to try supplements. Should you, and are they all that?

New Study Suggests Long-Lasting Immunity After COVID

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - July 15, 2021

There has always been uncertainty over how long immunity from SARS CoV-2 infection lasts. Is it three months? Six months? A year? Lifelong? Studies...

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.

Are You Exposing Yourself to This Potentially Lethal Chemical?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 5, 2022

ARE YOU EXPOSED EACH DAY TO PHTHALATES, chemicals in everything from makeup to plastic containers? A new study from New York University suggests that such exposure may...

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

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 15, 2021

Goop is Gwyneth Paltrow's platform that is increasingly peddling personal health and advising her followers to use practices and products that are not medically suited

Texas Listeria Outbreak Leads to Tyson Chicken Recall

July 6, 2021

The Mechanics of Vaping and Its Medical Impact on Your Health

February 12, 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

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

August 9, 2021

Kerri Rivera on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 22, 2020