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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

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

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Back to the Future of Medicine: The Physician Reimagined

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

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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

Deceptive Fairy Tales and the Desperate Worshiping at the Altar of Beauty

How to Find Out If You Can Get Pregnant?

Women and HIV in the US

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

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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

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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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Untangling the False Binary of “Medical vs. Mind-Body”

Anna Holtzman - November 27, 2022

One of the common stumbling blocks that can come up on the path of chronic pain recovery is confusion about whether or not a mind-body approach is right for you.

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

June 1, 2025

Reduce Dementia by Staying Active

January 6, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria Found in Dog Food

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - July 14, 2021

Understandably, the world has been hyperfocused on the global SARS CoV-2 pandemic. It has wreaked - and continues to wreak - havoc on many...

Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

April 19, 2021

When Plans Shift: The High Stakes of Climate Innovation

March 5, 2025

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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: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Sweet or Sinister: Unveiling the Real Story of Aspartame and Cancer

Michael Hunter, MD - August 11, 2023

IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR SWEETENERS a potential cancer-causing agent? According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), aspartame is a threat....

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - September 27, 2024

Beyond the Battlefield Citizens Confront a Different Enemy — Despair, Disease and Death

Cancer Epidemic? Study Reveals Alarming Link to Daily Habits (and How to Break Free)

Michael Hunter, MD - July 19, 2024

Nearly half of all cancer cases and deaths in adults over 30 are linked to preventable causes.

Sleep May Be Associated with Eye Health

Michael Hunter, MD - November 7, 2022

INSUFFICIENT SLEEP APPEARS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH GLAUCOMA, a leading cause of blindness. That is the conclusion of researchers examining more than 400,000 individuals.

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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - September 1, 2022

Ivermectin is a global con, sold by unscrupulous doctors and healthcare professionals as a treatment for Covid. It doesn't work.

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

May 8, 2021

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

March 15, 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

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - January 4, 2021

Zach Bush, MD scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. Bush has become the poster boy for alternate/complementary health and mixes pseudoscience and mystical mumbo-jumbo with his own brand of traditional medicine

Dr. Sherrill Sellman on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 30, 2020

The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters

May 2, 2021