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The Rise of Consumer Health in Shaping Southeast Asia Treatment Accessibility

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

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

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The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

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The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Alzheimer’s Will Limit Human Space Travel

Julian Willett, MD - September 3, 2023

I read a lot of science fiction, as scores have done before me over the past few centuries. I find a galactic setting helpful in...

Strength Training and Sleep

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Asleep and Stuffing Food Into Your Mouth with No Memory of It

May 22, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Schools May Foul the Drinking Water, Endanger and Damage Children

Pat Farrell PhD - May 7, 2021

Is there is clean, lead-free, bacteria-free water in the fountains, the sinks, the toilets, and the showers in the child's school?

Health Possibilities We Can’t Afford to Block

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New York Climate Week in an Election Year

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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

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DISEASES

The Scorpion Effect: Why People Struggle To Embrace Technology

John Nosta - March 2, 2023

Ultimately, carbon and silicon might not mix very well - the struggle with technology.

Why Waste Money on School Lunches for Poor Kids?

Pat Farrell PhD - August 28, 2022

Politics don't mix well with biology and child development, especially regarding nourishing lunches that promote educational efforts.

Global Elite are Bored with Health, Just When It’s Getting Really Exciting

Mark Chataway - May 14, 2022

Our global leaders may regret not paying more attention to what is happening in health: help middle-income countries leap past more advanced counterparts.

Hepatitis A

Medika Life - June 24, 2020

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. Viruses cause most cases of hepatitis. The type of hepatitis is named for the virus that causes it; hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D and hepatitis E.

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

The Mechanics of Vaping and Its Medical Impact on Your Health

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - February 12, 2021

How safe is vaping? What medical literature exists to support claims of safety or the contrary? Medika examines the lucrative industry.

Covid Vaccines Just Took a Major Step Toward Regaining Credibility

March 19, 2021

Perrigo Voluntarily Recalls Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Aerosol

October 28, 2020

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

The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters

Medika Life - May 2, 2021

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Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

May 17, 2021

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

April 17, 2021