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

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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

Menstruation explained. Everything You Need to Know About the Menstrual Cycle

10 Tips for Pumping and Working

Galactorrhea or Milky Nipple Discharge in Women

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

What You Need To Know About Home Health Services

Christina Vaughn - February 25, 2024

Home health and aging at home are a growing trend - here's what you need to know

Caution! When Cannabis And Christmas Collide In Unexpected Ways

December 27, 2023

Learn to Forgive Yourself and You Do a Great Service to Yourself and Others

February 6, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Carbon Credits – The Dirty Word for Clean Cookstoves

Nicole Grubner - February 14, 2024

Home Appliances and Policymakers Look to Clean Cookstove Programs to Keep Local Communities and Global Climate Sustainable

The Recycling Lie – How Corporations Duped Us Into Drowning in Plastic

April 28, 2024

Harvesting the Breeze: Unleashing the Power of Wind Energy

July 23, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

Macarthur Medical Center - November 4, 2020

When the baby is delivered through an incision in the abdomen and uterus, it is called a cesarean section or C-section delivery. Information on the procedure

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Gestational Diabetes, Risks and Treatment

Medika Life - May 31, 2020

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy. Diabetes means your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high.

Reluctantly Healed By Barbie 😅

Anna Holtzman - August 1, 2023

I’ll start by saying that I was prepared to hate the Barbie movie. I thought it would be a giant advertisement for a toy...

Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?

Medika Life - May 12, 2022

A central question for scientists championing boosters is why rates have stalled among people 65 and older.

Let’s Kick the Can Down the Road Again. Or Not!

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - October 13, 2022

Three Deadly Dangers that Will Soon Catch Up to People and Planet

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

Debunking Common Coronavirus and Covid Misconceptions, Myths, Lies, and Fairytales

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - April 12, 2021

Debunking Covid myths and conspiracies about masks, vaccines, PCR tests and more. A long list of misinformation rebutted. Want to help counter covid misinformation?

Simone Gold and America’s Frontline Con Artists Launch a Road Trip

May 9, 2021

The Complete Dummies Guide to Covid PCR Testing for Conspiracy Fans

March 25, 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

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

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 23, 2021

Geert Vanden Boscche has made outlandish claims about the Covid vaccines and suggested they will end humanity. We debunk his claims with substantive sources.

How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity

May 8, 2021

Dr. Edgar Suter on Medika’s Quack Scale

December 2, 2020