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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

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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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

Cher’s Severe, Hidden Disorder Chipped Away at Her Self-Esteem

The PREGOPOWER App for expectant mothers

Five Things Your Nipples May be Trying to Tell You

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

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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

The Quack Scale

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Washington University Starts Clinic to Help Covid Long Haulers

Dr Jeff Livingston - April 21, 2021

Washington University School of Medicine announced a new clinic specifically targeting patients with long Covid and post-Covid conditions.

Memory-Mind-Muscles, the Stunning Formula For Your Brain’s Functioning

October 20, 2022

The Dangers of Fighting Cigarette Addiction With Vaping Are Not Vague

June 19, 2024

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...

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

July 12, 2023

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

September 17, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

A bilateral salpingectomy is an outpatient procedure to permanently prevent pregnancy and reduce the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer.

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

DISEASES

Why Waste Money on School Lunches for Poor Kids?

Pat Farrell PhD - August 28, 2022

Politics don't mix well with biology and child development, especially regarding nourishing lunches that promote educational efforts.

Want to Drink Less Alcohol?

Michael Hunter, MD - January 16, 2022

WHILE I AM NOT ONE TO MAKE New Year’s resolutions, I know that many of you make them to improve their health and better their...

20 People Who are Transforming the Health Ecosystem Through Practical Paths to Apply AI – 2025 Roster

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - February 26, 2025

Follow these 20 voices pioneering thinking around augmented intelligence and large language models (LLMs) and you will be ahead of the health transformation curve

Colon Cancer

Medika Life - June 24, 2020

Colon cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the colon.. Signs of colon cancer include blood in the stool or a change in bowel habits.

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

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

Medika Life - July 7, 2021

Vaccine passports have proved hugely divisive. Most states are moving to, or have already outlawed them, while some choose to limit their use.

Texas Listeria Outbreak Leads to Tyson Chicken Recall

July 6, 2021

The Evolution of Quinine to Hydroxychloroquine, Covid’s Snake Oil

June 18, 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

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

Medika Life - May 23, 2021

Prof. Dolores Cahill is a medical quack that offers up anti-vaccine advice and spreads misinformation on the SARS-CoV2 virus and the covid vaccines

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020

Another AFLDS Quack, Meet Dr. Peterson Pierre

October 24, 2022