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Is Your Bedroom Dark Enough?

Many of us struggle to get the optimal nightly seven to nine hours of sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society recommends that adults (ages 18 to 60) sleep seven or more hours regularly for optimal sleep health.

ENVIRON

On the Origin of Covid. With Apologies to Darwin

Where did the SARS-COV-2 virus originate? Was it artificial and unintentionally escaped its laboratory confines? Was it released intentionally?

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

A mid-urethral sling is the most common type of surgery used to correct stress urinary incontinence or a leaky bladder. A small, supportive material of synthetic mesh is placed under the urethra to give support.

DISEASES

Juicy Dilemma: Unveiling the Hidden Weight Impact of 100% Fruit Juices

Juice has essential vitamins, antioxidants, and polyphenols, which are good for a healthy diet. However, there’s a worry that the juice’s high sugar and energy content might lead to weight gain.

Hockey Fan Spots Melanoma

NOT JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT a hockey game. The Canucks faced off against my Seattle Kraken. Sitting behind the arena glass, a young woman spies...

The Forgotten in Mental Health Facilities Do Have a Few Advocates

Psychiatry has not a checkered past but a past that must push all of us into a more enlightened future. Relating the past, just...

We Know the Health Ecosystem is Fragmented, Resulting in Rising Costs and Poorer Patient Outcomes, But What Are We Doing About It?

As We Enter the “Post-Fragmentation” Period, Health System Kinetics Points Us Toward Solutions

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SAFETY

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

Being poor can get you killed. A damning indictment of breast cancer Providers from a Medicaid survivor of a double mastectomy.

CARDIO

AISAP Rural Health Breakthrough in Ghana is a Blueprint for Solving Cardiology Deserts

Access to cardiac care remains one of the most pressing, yet overlooked, crises in global health. In the United States, nearly half of all...

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Zach Bush, MD on Medika’s Quack Scale

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