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Mammogram Myth Busters: Too Many or Too Few? New Guidelines Explained

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Yes, You Can Change That Medical Consent Form

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LLM Cancer Mentor “Dave AI” Offers WAZE-like 24/7 Personalized Support, Making it a Game-Changer in Patient Care

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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

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

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Mammogram Myth Busters: Too Many or Too Few? New Guidelines Explained

Michael Hunter, MD -

Yes, You Can Change That Medical Consent Form

Pat Farrell PhD -

LLM Cancer Mentor “Dave AI” Offers WAZE-like 24/7 Personalized Support, Making it a Game-Changer in Patient Care

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

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

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New York Climate Week in an Election Year

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OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTHCARE

Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health-System CFO

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

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

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

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

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HIMSS 2024 will Feature Prominently in Medika Life Coverage

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

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

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Digital Health Trends Revealed – Exuberance Gives Way to Savvy Investors

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

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Missouri Debates Birth Control Ban Without Knowing How Contraception Works

Galactorrhea or Milky Nipple Discharge in Women

Tennis Legend Has Ovarian Cancer

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

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Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

The Quack Scale

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

Wordle Highlights the Essential Nature of Shared Experience

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - March 12, 2022

"Did you do the Wordle?" "Wait!! Don't tell me! I haven't done it yet!" Almost every day, these words are likely repeated all across our...

Covid Made Me Think About Leaving Medicine

September 18, 2020

Ethical Dilemmas of Physicians During a Pandemic

August 8, 2020

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Israel Incubators, Accelerators and Private-Equity Groups Champion Pressing Climate-Tech Innovation

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - August 23, 2023

Counsel, Connections and Cash are Today’s Start-Up Table-Stakes

How To Use a Controversial Supreme Court Ruling for Good

August 17, 2023

Plastics Have Made Their Way Into Our Brains and May Cause Neurologic Disorders

May 4, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Myomectomy, an easy way to remove submucosal uterine fibroids.

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

November 4, 2020

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

DISEASES

Covid Masks: What You Should Know

Michael Hunter, MD - January 17, 2022

I SWAPPED OUT MY SURGICAL MASK for the N95 and KN94 ones. Given my newer masks are not inexpensive, how long can I wear one...

Tennis Legend Has Ovarian Cancer

Michael Hunter, MD - January 18, 2022

LEGENDARY TENNIS PLAYER CHRIS EVERT is sharing information about her recent cancer diagnosis. Here is a tweet from her: Evert shared more details about her journey in the cancer...

Is the Diagnosis Correct, or Is It a “Billable” for Charges for the Clinician’s Services?

Pat Farrell PhD - August 17, 2023

The dilemma and stress of a healthcare diagnosis are something everyone can experience, and insurance plays a significant role.

Is Innovation an Overused Idea? ViVE is Home to Real-World Health-System Evolution!

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - February 28, 2024

Some Conferences Attract the Edgy Ideas of Tomorrow – ViVE 2024 Attracts the Champions of Change Needed Now

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

These Vaccinated Groups are Still at Risk of Severe Covid, UK Study Finds

Medika Life - October 7, 2021

Post Covid-19 vaccination, some patient groups are still at risk of developing severe Covid, according to findings from a new UK study.

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

April 10, 2021

Opioids. Everything you need to know about America’s Most Lethal Drugs

March 15, 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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 23, 2021

Geert Vanden Boscche has made outlandish claims about the Covid vaccines and suggested they will end humanity. We debunk his claims with substantive sources.

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

July 23, 2021

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

January 4, 2021