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Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

Christopher Nial -

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

Pat Farrell PhD -

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

Michael Hunter, MD -

How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

Pat Farrell PhD -

Back to the Future of Medicine: The Physician Reimagined

Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor -

OPINION & IMPACT
HEALTH

For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

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Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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Trump’s Drug Price Gambit: Cheaper for America, But Who Pays the Price?

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How Real-World Evidence Proves the Power of Patient Engagement

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How the growing trade war could affect biopharma intellectual property

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‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

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A Digital Turning Point in Migraine Care: CT-132 FDA Approval to Market is a Win for Patients and Proof that Clinical Evidence Matters

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Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson’s Health Wake-Up Call

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Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Menopause, Understanding the Basics

Lupus and its effects on women

No One Likes Taking Birth Control

Your Body Ages in Leaps: Stanford’s Surprising Findings at Ages 44 and 60

Hot Flash Hack: The Latest Breakthrough for Menopausal Relief

A Cycling Accident Saved My Life

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

KEEP IN TOUCH

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

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

Flipping the Script on Cancer Prevention

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

Sleep Loss and Stress Are Stealthy Culprits in Tinnitus Increase or Are They?

Pat Farrell PhD - December 11, 2022

The buzzing or constant electrical current sounds in your head isn't simply that you are aging; it's bolstered by things you can control.

COVID Vaccine Versus Infection: Which Confers More Immunity?

January 15, 2023

Working Less Is Not Goofing Off — It Makes Mental Health Sense

January 8, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

A Business Approach To Reducing Healthcare Costs

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - October 3, 2022

Do It By Improving Employee Health — It Works! This is the 13th article in a series on America’s dysfunctional healthcare system.

COP29 Elevates Health as a Key Climate Priority

September 17, 2024

Climate at a Crossroads

August 15, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Colposcopy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 25, 2020

Our Preparing for series allows a patient to properly prepare themselves for a procedure. Answers about how long the procedure will last, what’s involved, what to expect

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

June 3, 2020

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

November 4, 2020

DISEASES

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 Weight Loss Drugs That Refuse to Recognize Boundaries

Pat Farrell PhD - December 1, 2024

Drugs in the GLP-1 category are now being seen in a different light beyond that of weight control, and their promise is fascinating.

Cardiovascular Disease Even After Mild COVID-19 Is Real

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - April 6, 2022

Eleanor, a friend who is vaccinated and boosted, was always very careful about contacts with others. She met with a small group of friends...

Business of Health: When Patients Become Secondary to the System

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - March 13, 2025

Can the Health System Align Around a Common Goal — Better Health

HEALTHY MINDS

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

June 1, 2025

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

June 1, 2025

How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

May 23, 2025

Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

May 21, 2025

Death Is Not A Failure

May 15, 2025

Cancer Isn’t Random: What 42% of Diagnoses Have in Common — and How You Can Lower Your Risk.

May 2, 2025

When Is Exercise Not Exercise, and Is That Good Enough?

May 2, 2025

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 4, 2021

Reiner Fuellmich is the Covid Conspiracy theorist spreading fake news across the internet. We call him out on his latest nonsensical article published recenty.

You Don’t Need to be an Idiot to be a CovIdiot

September 25, 2021

Vaccine Passports. Where Does Your State Stand? A List of all 50 States

July 7, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2025

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

Beans Are Now the Super Food That We All Need, So Get Ready for a New Diet

March 13, 2025

Multivitamins and Longevity: A Data-Driven Deep Dive

February 26, 2025

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

America’s Frontline Doctors Want to Become the New Republic’s NIH

Medika Life - June 6, 2021

America's Frontline Doctors want you to call them now so they can prescribe dangerous medications based on a brief telehealth call, all for only $90

Dr Joseph Mercola on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 17, 2020

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

March 4, 2021