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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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LATEST ARTICLES

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

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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

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

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The Rise of Consumer Health in Shaping Southeast Asia Treatment Accessibility

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

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

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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 to Wee Away your UTI. New Research from Rutgers

Pregnancy Weight Gain Calculator

Iron-Deficiency Anemia; Why It Happens and What to Do About It

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

Being an Asian Healthcare Worker Complicated My Access to Mental Health Care

Soojin Jun - March 23, 2021

Mental Health protocols for providers have to start with caring for healthcare workers so that we can care properly for our patients.

Mental Health Disorders Occur Frequently After Covid-19

October 20, 2022

Why It is Imperative We Redefine Mental Illness and How We Treat It

June 4, 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...

The Second Leading Cause of Lung Cancer Will Surprise You

August 28, 2022

Global Wellness Summit Charts $4.4 Trillion Sector Impacting Longevity

November 6, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Polypectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for an Endometrial Biopsy

October 11, 2020

DISEASES

How Can We Address Increasing Violence Against Healthcare Personnel?

Pat Farrell PhD - May 22, 2023

Violence against healthcare professionals is increasing, and we must address it in terms that will deter further injury and/or death.

Are Your Patients Asking about Wegovy?

Katherine Saunders, MD - September 20, 2023

Ten common questions about popular anti-obesity medications

Punish the Lazy Obese, Shower Shame on Them, and Refuse Disability Benefits to Them?

Pat Farrell PhD - May 1, 2022

Obesity is an evolving medical disorder that still includes shame and the refusal of disability benefits without serious medical side effects.

Doctors Find Drug for Lethal Lung Disease After Decades of Trying

Medika Life - September 8, 2020

An international team of researchers reports in the New England Journal of Medicine dramatically transforming aPAP treatment by helping develop a drug that patients can inhale once a day so their body will clear out the pulmonary waste.

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

Debunking Common Coronavirus and Covid Misconceptions, Myths, Lies, and Fairytales

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - April 12, 2021

Debunking Covid myths and conspiracies about masks, vaccines, PCR tests and more. A long list of misinformation rebutted. Want to help counter covid misinformation?

How OMICS and Other Predatory Publishers Enable Scientific Fraudsters

December 27, 2020

Mastering The Art of Tweet-Jacking During a Pandemic

March 31, 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.

Why Polly Tommey Poses a Threat to Your Health and Your Children

April 14, 2021

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

May 23, 2021