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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

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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

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

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 -

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

VIVE 2023 Made Several Wise Decisions in Coming To Nashville

Women Suffer Because of Medical Misinformation About Debilitating Menstrual Pain

Colostrum, Breastmilk’s Magical Ingredient and What it Contains

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

Dementia Remains One of Our Most Serious Mysteries

Pat Farrell PhD - December 15, 2021

Many dementia misdiagnoses are written in stone in charts, and then the patients are treated accordingly. Often, patients suffer from this ageist bias.

The Nervous System and Its Relationship to Cancer’s Hacks

February 4, 2024

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

March 6, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Hidden Danger in Your Cocoa: Unveiling the Heavy Metal Threat Lurking in Your Chocolate

Michael Hunter, MD - December 27, 2023

Recent findings have uncovered a hidden danger in some popular chocolates — a threat beyond calories and sugar content.

Climate Change is a Health Crisis, So Why is Health Adaptation Financing Still Lacking?

September 24, 2023

Climate, Environment and the Future of Epidemics

January 15, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

A loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is a treatment to remove abnormal cervical cells to prevent cervical cancer.

Preparing for: Colposcopy

June 25, 2020

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Understanding the types of Bariatric Surgery

Medika Life - July 13, 2020

Bariatric Surgery is common now as a tool to combat obesity. We examine gastric bands, a gastric bypass, and other types of surgery commonly

Sisters And Brothers On The Front Lines

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - October 21, 2021

An open letter to my sisters and brothers on the front lines: those of us still fighting the good fight against COVID-19.

HIMSS – Global Meeting Ground for Health Info Innovators to Secure Partnerships and Advance Care

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - March 4, 2024

10 Israeli Innovators Head Toward Orlando with New Approaches to Hospital Efficiency and Improved Patient Care - Showing Engineering Marvel and AI Potential

It’s Time to Up Our Messaging Game Ahead of Another Winter with COVID

Richard Hatzfeld - September 23, 2023

This is not the time to roll out stale messaging delivered by a carousel of health officials trying to convince the public to get the test kits.

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

Perrigo Voluntarily Recalls Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Aerosol

Medika Life - October 28, 2020

A voluntary U.S. nationwide recall of albuterol sulfate inhalation aerosol to the retail level after previously halting production and distribution.

Fact Checking Vaccine Claims With Flawed Science: True

February 1, 2023

Dr. Steven Quay to Brief U.S. Congress On Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 21, 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

Dr Joseph Mercola on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - November 17, 2020

Dr Joseph Mercola scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. Mercola is the ultimate digital Quack cum snake oil salesman.

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

April 17, 2021

Kerri Rivera on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 22, 2020