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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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Understanding Transverse Myelitis

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Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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

Yes, You Can Change That Medical Consent Form

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LATEST ARTICLES

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

Christopher Nial -

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

How Endometriosis Causes Painful Periods and Affects Fertility

Trichomoniasis: A Common Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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

The Forgotten Ones in the Tragedy of Alzheimer’s Disease

Pat Farrell PhD - March 1, 2023

The group of researchers spread out around the computer screen. They seemed to hope that they had finally found the answer to Alzheimer's, a...

Caution! When Cannabis And Christmas Collide In Unexpected Ways

December 27, 2023

Widowhood and a Career Bring Double Trouble to Women

February 2, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - January 3, 2024

At this time of year, there is the expected stream of top-notch analyses about trends in health – from innovations to watch to people...

Communication: The Missing Link Between Vision and Progress on Environment and Social Responsibility Priorities

August 2, 2022

How Do We Americans Stack up Healthwise? Very Poorly!

July 17, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

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

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Rethinking Blood Pressure

Michael Hunter, MD - February 20, 2022

IS YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE NORMAL? Are you sure? Researchers are moving the bar on what constitutes an “ideal” blood pressure. Today we explore a study suggesting...

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

A bilateral salpingectomy is an outpatient procedure to permanently prevent pregnancy and reduce the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer.

What You May Not Know About Breast Cancer

Dr. James Goydos - October 24, 2020

One of the most common concerns of a breast cancer survivor following successful treatment is recurrence. Breast cancer survivors can be subject to a myria

Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction

Medika Life - June 29, 2023

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given...

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

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

Christina Vaughn - October 4, 2021

Being poor can get you killed. A damning indictment of breast cancer Providers from a Medicaid survivor of a double mastectomy.

How OMICS and Other Predatory Publishers Enable Scientific Fraudsters

December 27, 2020

How Medika’s Quack Scale Works

November 15, 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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - January 13, 2021

America's Frontline Doctos, founded by Simone Gold is simply a poorly concealed business designed to sell Hydroxychloroquine to gullible consumers

Another AFLDS Quack, Meet Dr. Peterson Pierre

October 24, 2022

Dr. Judy Mikovits on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020