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

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Fifty of the Most Impactful Tech Innovators in Digital Health in 2021

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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

Egg Freezing Fights Fertility’s Biological Clock

Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP)

Bacterial Vaginosis; What to Do When Your Vagina Smells Bad

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

The Quack Scale

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

A New A.I. Based Solution to Nurse Burn-out and Turnover

Medika Life - September 16, 2020

What can we do to ensure that those we rely upon to care for us, are being supported in this essential, important work?

Chiropractic Care May Led to Reduced Opioid Use

February 18, 2022

A Year With 988: What Worked? What Challenges Lie Ahead?

July 26, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Why Healthcare Organizations Need to Be at the Forefront of Climate Change Activism

Soojin Jun - October 3, 2022

Let’s show the aligned purpose of caring for the well-being of patients!

Health Possibilities We Can’t Afford to Block

November 15, 2022

Step Aside, Coffee — The Health Benefits of Tea

September 1, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for an Endometrial Biopsy

Dr Jeff Livingston - October 11, 2020

An endometrial biopsy is a simple office-based procedure where a doctor removes a small amount of tissue from inside the uterine cavity. This procedure

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Want to Live Forever? Science Says Do These Exercises

Michael Hunter, MD - November 25, 2024

Do you have a balanced approach of moderate and vigorous exercise (plus strength training)?

The Social Innovation Summit is the Other UN Changing the World

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - June 5, 2024

Photo Credit Social Innovation Summit: Chelsea Clinton was among the keynotes at this year's Summit. She serves as an executive of the Clinton Foundation and is a noted author.

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

Medika Life - December 20, 2021

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- An overwhelming number of parents support mental health education in schools and "mental health days" for their children, according...

National Institute for Clinical Excellence Recommends QbTest to Aid Diagnosis of ADHD in Youth

Medika Life - August 4, 2024

Global Leader in ADHD Objective Testing Improves Access to Care for Patients in the U.S. and UK

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

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 8, 2021

Geert Vanden Bossche presents a real and present danger to America's covid vaccination program. Data shows the growing reach and influence he enjoys in the US and Canada

Debunking Common Coronavirus and Covid Misconceptions, Myths, Lies, and Fairytales

April 12, 2021

Deadly Superbug Candida Auris Hits Two Dallas Hospitals. Officials Won’t Name Hospitals

July 25, 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

Andrew Wakefield, the ultimate medical con on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - April 17, 2021

Andrew Wakefield is the greatest medical fraud of our generation. Guilty of malpractice, misleading the public, lying, falsifying data, and causing vaccine

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

March 23, 2021

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

May 29, 2021