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Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health-System CFO

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The Rise of Consumer Health in Shaping Southeast Asia Treatment Accessibility

Digital Health AI and Innovation Summit to Gather in Boston this Fall

Strategies to Slash My Dementia Risk: My Journey to Promote Brain Health

Michael Hunter, MD -

Chatbots Can’t Be Trusted, and We Need Tools to Find Fact From Fiction in Them

Pat Farrell PhD -

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

Christopher Nial -

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Understanding Transverse Myelitis

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

Strategies to Slash My Dementia Risk: My Journey to Promote Brain Health

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

Gabor Maté’s Bizarre Ideas on Connections Between Stress and Disease

Digital Health AI and Innovation Summit to Gather in Boston this Fall

The Medika Life 50 – The Most Influential Voices in Healthcare for 2022

An Ageing Population Underlines Need for New Strategies to Improve Uptake of Adult Pneumococcal Immunisation

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Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health-System CFO

David Kirshner -

The Rise of Consumer Health in Shaping Southeast Asia Treatment Accessibility

Digital Health AI and Innovation Summit to Gather in Boston this Fall

Strategies to Slash My Dementia Risk: My Journey to Promote Brain Health

Michael Hunter, MD -

Chatbots Can’t Be Trusted, and We Need Tools to Find Fact From Fiction in Them

Pat Farrell PhD -

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

Christopher Nial -

New York Climate Week in an Election Year

Cullen Burnell -

Beyond the Tech: The Most Important Leadership Priority in the Age of AI

Robert Sundelius, FACHE -

Is “Whataboutism” Killing Empathy?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

Pat Farrell PhD -

OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTHCARE

Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health-System CFO

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

We Know the Health Ecosystem is Fragmented, Resulting in Rising Costs and Poorer Patient Outcomes, But What Are We Doing About It?

Exclusive Medika Conversation with HIMSS Top Leadership – Inside Scoop on Key 2024 Priorities

HIMSS 2024 will Feature Prominently in Medika Life Coverage

Galen Growth + ViVE 2024 Champion Digital Health Innovation as a Salve for an Ailing US Health Ecosystem

Understanding the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from a Major International Study

Digital Health Trends Revealed – Exuberance Gives Way to Savvy Investors

Psychiatry’s “Bible” Panel Comes Under Fire for Funding and Gifts

JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

Texas: Pediatric Migraine Clinical Study Participants – Children

Pregnancy Weight Gain Calculator

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

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

KEEP IN TOUCH

8 Habits That Might Add Decades to Your Life

Dr. Susan Love: A Legacy of Empathy and Empowerment in Medicine

Why Improving Women’s Health Around the World is Urgent

Longer Breastfeeding Results in Better School Achievement: Why Might That Be?

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

Clinics IV Life Launches a New Clinic Model to Change the Face of Charitable Maternal Care, Delivery to Impoverished Communities

The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

The Quack Scale

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

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

The Difference Between A Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Psychotherapist

Lisa Bradburn - June 12, 2020

A High-level overview showcasing the differences and similarities between psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy,

First “Global State of Digital Health Report” Tapping into 200 Million Data Points Examines More Than 12,000 Digital Health Ventures Now Available

November 14, 2022

Freedom May Be Anxiety-Provoking, So Should We Avoid It?

November 10, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

CDC Members Prove to Themselves the Pandemic Isn’t Over

Pat Farrell PhD - May 9, 2023

Healthcare facilities are being told that the need for masks will soon be lifted and the pandemic will be seen as finished, but that’s questionable.

COVID Became a MedTech Proving Ground Pointing to Planetary Health Priorities

January 30, 2023

Hospitals and Digital Health Can Save People and the Planet

July 22, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

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: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Richard Roundtree, Star of “Shaft,” Is Dead at 81. What You Should Know About His Cancer.

Michael Hunter, MD - October 29, 2023

ACTOR RICHARD ROUNDTREE, the iconic private detective from the 1970s action film “Shaft,” is dead at 81. As a doctor who treats individuals with cancer,...

A Business Approach To Reducing Healthcare Costs

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - October 3, 2022

Do It By Improving Employee Health — It Works! This is the 13th article in a series on America’s dysfunctional healthcare system.

Digital Health AI and Innovation Summit to Gather in Boston this Fall

Medika Life - May 3, 2024

The digital health sector has its ups and downs! Some judge its success by investment dollars and others by market sales. This...

Covid Is Disappearing in Japan. Why?

Michael Hunter, MD - December 8, 2021

Japan reports zero new deaths from COVID-19 infection. How did COVID cases drop from 30,000 in August to only 50? Read here:

HEALTHY MINDS

Is “Whataboutism” Killing Empathy?

April 16, 2024

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

April 16, 2024

From Skinner’s Operant Conditioning to Artificial Intelligence’s Algorithms

April 11, 2024

Guilt Is a Weapon, and We Need to Defend Ourselves

April 2, 2024

Surprising Connection Found: Missing Teeth At Birth Linked to Cancer Risk

March 18, 2024

Researchers Have Stepped Into the Weird World of Science Fiction

March 18, 2024

Updating Maslow’s Theory in the Ever-Evolving AI Era

March 13, 2024

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

mRNA Technology, Human DNA and The Traffic Flow of Genetic Material

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - April 10, 2021

Can RNA from a SARS-Cov2 infection find its way into our DNA. A recent preprint suggests reasons why genetic viral material is showing up in PCR tests

Kratom, the Undiluted Truth. Is it a Dangerous Drug or a Godsend?

December 12, 2020

COVID B.1.1.7 - How Widespread Is It in the U.S. and How Worried Should We Be?

January 16, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Strategies to Slash My Dementia Risk: My Journey to Promote Brain Health

Michael Hunter, MD - April 28, 2024

A growing body of evidence suggests that the fight against dementia should begin earlier, before the brain changes that facilitate cognitive decline.

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

April 16, 2024

HIMSS – Global Meeting Ground for Health Info Innovators to Secure Partnerships and Advance Care

March 4, 2024

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Worshiping at The Alter of Zach Bush’s Messianic Health Cult

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 15, 2021

Zach Bush examined again, in response to supporters of the alternative health community and the health cult Bush has built around himself. Is he a quack?

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

May 17, 2021

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

May 29, 2021