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

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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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HEALTHCARE

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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Breast Cancer

8 Tips to Solve Vaginal Dryness and Overcome Painful Intercourse

Trump’s America. Deride Them, But They are Better Than You

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

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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?

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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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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

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

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HEALTHY MINDS

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.

Four Ways COVID has Changed Health Tech

December 29, 2021

If Deaths of Small Children Do Not Move Us to Action What Will?

March 27, 2023

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Let’s Kick the Can Down the Road Again. Or Not!

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - October 13, 2022

Three Deadly Dangers that Will Soon Catch Up to People and Planet

Climate Change, COP28 and the Ingredients for Accelerated Innovation in the Start-Up Nation

July 12, 2023

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: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

How You Can Use Hiking to Burn Calories

Michael Hunter, MD - January 2, 2022

111 MILLION. THAT’S THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS who walk for fitness. But what about hiking? Do you regularly go on hiking adventures? Walking and hiking...

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

Pat Farrell PhD - April 16, 2024

Tobacco products have been proven to cause various cancers, but new nicotine-containing products are questionable, too.

Breast Cancer

Medika Life - June 22, 2020

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. Mammograms can detect breast cancer early, possibly before it has spread.

Bacterial Vaginosis; What to Do When Your Vagina Smells Bad

Dr Jeff Livingston - August 1, 2020

Bacterial vaginosis is a common, non sexually transmitted vaginal infection causing discharge and foul-smelling odor.

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

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What are Vitamins and What Role do They Play in Your Health?

Medika Life - May 5, 2021

Learn about vitamins, what they help for, how they work and what they can and cannot do. Find out which pills are a waste of money and why.

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

September 1, 2022

Texas Provides a Useful Tool For Covid Vaccination Sites

December 31, 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

Worshiping at The Alter of Zach Bush’s Messianic Health Cult

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 15, 2021

Zach Bush examined again, in response to supporters of the alternative health community and the health cult Bush has built around himself. Is he a quack?

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

January 13, 2021

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

September 1, 2022