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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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Fifty of the Most Impactful Tech Innovators in Digital Health in 2021

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The Medika Life 50 – The Most Influential Voices in Health for 2022

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Fact Checking Vaccine Claims With Flawed Science: True

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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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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

Testosterone therapy: Does it Work for Women?

Chlamydia: The Most Common Bacterial STI and How to Avoid It

Gestational Diabetes, Risks and Treatment

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

Four Ways COVID has Changed Health Tech

John Whyte MD - December 29, 2021

Like most tech lovers, I’m excited about the upcoming CES conference. I won’t be attending in person but will be watching it very closely...

Key Tips for Starting a New Social Work Private Practice

August 29, 2020

Coffee, Sugar, and Mortality

September 15, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Securing our Economic Future Against Malaria

Richard Hatzfeld - August 20, 2023

Malaria remains one of the greatest public health threats facing humanity.

Climate Tech Visionaries: Innovating for a Sustainable Future

February 4, 2025

The Urgent Call to Decolonise Global Health

August 26, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for an Endometrial Biopsy

Dr Jeff Livingston - October 11, 2020

An endometrial biopsy is a simple office-based procedure where a doctor removes a small amount of tissue from inside the uterine cavity. This procedure

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

October 12, 2020

DISEASES

Why Covid Hits Some Hard

Michael Hunter, MD - January 12, 2022

WHY DOES COVID-19 WREAK SUCH DESTRUCTION on some individuals and not others? Race appears to play a role, as do age and other medical conditions...

The 50 Most Influential Leaders in Pharmacy 2022 Awards

Medika Life - January 9, 2023

Today the Pharmacy Podcast Network announces the winners of the 50 Most Influential Leaders in Pharmacy 2023 Awards.

Hospital Billing and Patient Experience

Lisa Miller - June 1, 2022

Healthcare billing creates problems for the patients' experience - why and what are our solutions?

When Death Is Inevitable, Why Is Our DNR Ignored?

Pat Farrell PhD - October 8, 2022

A peaceful death is what all of us wish for, and with that in mind, many will prepare a DNR form. Why do healthcare professionals ignore our requests?

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

Covid Vaccines Just Took a Major Step Toward Regaining Credibility

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 19, 2021

There will be no enforced Covid vaccinations across Europe and the US. You may not realize this, but the law prevents the enforced administration of EUA medicines

What are Vitamins and What Role do They Play in Your Health?

May 5, 2021

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

March 4, 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

Kelly Brogan on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - November 16, 2020

Kelly Brogan scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. She poses a very high risk to both her patients and the general public and we recommend against following any of her advice.

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

May 2, 2021

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

May 17, 2021