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The Rise of Consumer Health in Shaping Southeast Asia Treatment Accessibility

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Distinct Paths: How White House Climate Policies Shape Innovation and Our Future

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

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Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Health-System CFO

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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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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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The Placenta Protects Babies From Covid-19; Here’s How

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At-Home Ultrasounds for Pregnant Women Now A Reality

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

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Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

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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

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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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Babson Diagnostics, BD Expand Strategic Partnership to Advance Diagnostic Blood Collection in New Care Settings

Medika Life - May 12, 2022

Babson Diagnostics and BD announced the expansion of a strategic partnership to move blood sample collection into new care settings

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

March 6, 2022

“Cognitive Liberty” May Be Imperiled in a World of AI Intrusion

March 27, 2023

ENVIRON

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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

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

October 3, 2022

Dangers in Household Chemicals May Impair and Damage Brain Cells

March 28, 2024

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Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - January 20, 2021

This article will help you prepare for a Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy. Understand what is involved in the procedure and

Preparing for: Vaginal Hysterectomy

October 27, 2020

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

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‘I Am Just Waiting to Die’: Social Security Clawbacks Drive Some Into Homelessness

Medika Life - December 20, 2023

This story is part of the “Overpayment Outrage” series on Cox Media Group TV stations and is authored by By Fred Clasen-Kelly on KFF] More than a year...

Menorrhagia or Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 7, 2020

Menorrhagia is menstrual bleeding that lasts more than 7 days. It can also be bleeding that is very heavy.and can affect your quality of life.

The Medical Device That May Lead to Harm in People of Color

Pat Farrell PhD - December 13, 2022

Testing medical equipment is aimed at ensuring that it applies to every patient, regardless of their race, but one piece missed the mark.

#HIMSS23 Brings Renewed Energy to the Global Health Information Table

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - April 19, 2023

AI, ChatGPT, Health at Home and Interoperability are the Hot Topics at HIMSS23

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

What You Need to Know About Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Michael Hunter, MD - March 26, 2021

There may be a dose-related effect of omega-3 fatty acids on atrial fibrillation risk. In high doses there appeared to be an increase in risk for atrial fibrillation in the omega-3 groups (versus control) in both trials.

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

April 10, 2021

Who Not To Trust: A List of 10 Covid-19 Charlatans and “Medical” Snake-Oil Salesmen

September 21, 2020

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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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - September 1, 2022

Ivermectin is a global con, sold by unscrupulous doctors and healthcare professionals as a treatment for Covid. It doesn't work.

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

August 9, 2021

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

May 29, 2021