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

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

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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

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

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

At-Home Ultrasounds for Pregnant Women Now A Reality

I Had an Emotionally Healing Vaginal Birth After my C Section. Why VBAC May Be Right For You, Too

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

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

People Still Travel to Wartime Ukraine – I’m Among Those Who Do

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - September 20, 2023

Ukrainians are on the Public Health Frontlines

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

August 18, 2024

NAMI Poll: Parents Want Mental Health Education in Schools, Mental Health Days Off for Students

December 20, 2021

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

COP29 Opening Ceremony: Leaders Call for Bold Action Amid Global Climate Crisis

Christopher Nial - November 11, 2024

A central issue at COP29 is the need for increased climate finance to support developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate impacts

Securing our Economic Future Against Malaria

August 20, 2023

How Do We Americans Stack up Healthwise? Very Poorly!

July 17, 2022

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 an Endometrial Biopsy

October 11, 2020

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

DISEASES

One More Peril of Short Sleep

Michael Hunter, MD - August 2, 2022

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”― Edgar Allan Poe A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOWER RISK of developing fatty liver...

Psychiatry’s “Bible” Panel Comes Under Fire for Funding and Gifts

Pat Farrell PhD - January 13, 2024

Pharmaceutical companies frequently pay doctors, and research indicates that these payments have an impact on doctors’ prescription practices. Expressly, doctors may prescribe more expensive name-brand medications...

Type 2 Diabetes, Risks and Treatment

Medika Life - May 31, 2020

Type 2 diabetes, the most common type of diabetes, is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high.

Music Therapy and Dementia — Surprising Findings

Michael Hunter, MD - September 4, 2022

MUSIC THERAPY MAY IMPROVE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS between people with dementia and their caregivers.

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

Opioids. Everything you need to know about America’s Most Lethal Drugs

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 15, 2021

Opioid overdoses related to illegally manufactured fentanyl (the most powerful of the opioids) represented the greatest contribution to the increasing numbers

The Facts About Fetal Cells and Covid Vaccines Explained

May 7, 2021

Why Should I Critically Appraise Health News?

March 26, 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

Roby Mitchell (Dr. Fitt) on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - November 23, 2020

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

Why Polly Tommey Poses a Threat to Your Health and Your Children

April 14, 2021

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020