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

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LATEST ARTICLES

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

10 Top Tips to Drop Your Breast Cancer Risk

Dairy Fats Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack, New Study Finds

Dallas UT Southwestern Paints an Ugly Picture for Covid Projections

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

The Role of Fear and Self-Abandonment in Chronic Symptoms

Anna Holtzman - July 9, 2023

A popular concept in the field of mind-body medicine is that fear fuels chronic symptoms.

“Going One On One With My Wisdom Teeth”

January 18, 2023

Netflix Can Wait, Your Heart Can’t

September 27, 2024

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Kids Are Affected by Climate Change in Ways We Rarely Consider

Pat Farrell PhD - August 15, 2022

Climate change isn't solely a matter of warming air and seas, it affects kids both mentally and physically.

Monsanto, Roundup, and Glyphosate. Whose Side is Science on and Why it Matters to Us?

May 21, 2021

The Urgent Call to Decolonise Global Health

August 26, 2024

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Colposcopy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 25, 2020

Our Preparing for series allows a patient to properly prepare themselves for a procedure. Answers about how long the procedure will last, what’s involved, what to expect

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

October 12, 2020

DISEASES

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...

Honey — 3 Reasons You Might Try It

Michael Hunter, MD - January 12, 2022

DID YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE HIGH-LEVEL EVIDENCE pointing to the medical benefits of consuming honey? For example, a randomized clinical trial of 300 children revealed these...

Will Blood Glucose Become The New Blood Pressure?

John Nosta - February 23, 2023

The utility of simple and watched-based measurements can put blood glucose on everyone’s radar.

How to Tell if You’re Having a Heart Attack

Michael Burg - January 28, 2021

Roughly 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 Americans have heart attacks each year. About one-third of these individuals die.

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

Why Should I Critically Appraise Health News?

Julian Willett, MD - March 26, 2021

Critical appraisal of healthcare news and opinion is essential in the modern world. This simple act can guide more informed decisions.

Understanding Mask Terminology, N95/KN95/N99, and What to Buy

January 28, 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

America’s Frontline Doctors Face Long Overdue Medical and Legal Censure

Medika Life - August 9, 2021

AFLDS or America's Front Line Doctors are about to come undone as state licensing authorities tighten restriction on medical misinformation

Scott Atlas on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020