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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

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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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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

Does Walking Extend Life?

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

5 Labor Positions to Help Your Baby Come Out

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

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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

Perhaps, A Braver New World

John Nosta - December 27, 2021

The drip, drip, drip of innovation might just be a myth. Change commonly occurs as a punctuated reality that’s a function of converging events...

Cleverly Using Semantics to Deceive and Avoid Licensing as a Therapist?

May 30, 2021

Do Your Relationships Need To Change in Order for You To Heal?

April 16, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

The Power of Words

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - July 9, 2021

Harnessing Communications Across Disciplines to Heal Our Environment. The power of words must be translated into meaningful actions

Contact Lenses and Cancer: Is There a Connection?

May 17, 2023

Millions of Rural Americans Rely on Private Wells. Few Regularly Test Their Water

October 24, 2023

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EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Polypectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Vaginal Hysterectomy

October 27, 2020

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

DISEASES

The Mindset of Purpose-Based Businesses

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - April 4, 2022

In the shadow of the great resignation, leaders are now waking up to the long-standing reality that talented people serve as “paid volunteers,” and...

The Power of Lifestyle Choices – The Dose of Truth in “Heal Thyself”

John Whyte MD - April 24, 2022

“You need to lose weight.” Doctors say that to patients every day. What they don’t do is tell patients how to do it. That’s...

Do Probiotics Repair Antibiotic-Induced Gut Damage?

Michael Hunter, MD - November 27, 2022

PROBIOTICS CAN HELP PREVENT (OR ATTENUATE) the negative changes in the composition of gut microbes associated with antibiotic treatment.

Alzheimer’s Long Road

Pat Farrell PhD - August 5, 2020

Alzheimer’s is only one dementia, and there are many others, currently about ten types. The problem is in identifying the individual’s precise dementia and treating it appropriately.

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

Getting the Story Straight on PCR…

Science Duuude - May 17, 2021

Reiner Fuellmich has been spreading misinformation about the coronavirus based on his gross misinterpretation of the PCR Test. A scientist sets him straight

Why Should I Critically Appraise Health News?

March 26, 2021

The Simple Truth Ivermectin and HCQ Supporters Fail to Acknowledge

September 7, 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

Robert F Kennedy Jnr Appropriates Racism and Apartheid To Fuel Vaccine Fear

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 28, 2021

Robert F Kennedy Jnr's latest movie, Medical Racism, the New Apartheid is pure appropriation of racism and culture to fuel his aniti-vaccine campaign

Ivermectin is Dead and Buried Despite NIH Website Misstep and Twitter Buzz

September 1, 2022

Exposing America’s Frontline Doctors and Their Financial Empire Built on Hydroxychloroquine

January 13, 2021