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AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

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Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

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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

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

Puberty and the Age of Consent. When Should “Yes” Be No!

Phexxi; Have You Heard About This New Hormone-Free Contraceptive?

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

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Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

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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

Complex, Chronic Diseases Are Rampant Today

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - June 27, 2022

America has the providers, the science, the drugs, the diagnostics, and the devices needed for outstanding patient care. But the delivery of care is dysfunctional at best and far too expensive.

Voices of Chaos: The Archetypes of Social Media Banter

January 4, 2025

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

September 17, 2024

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

On the Origin of Covid. With Apologies to Darwin

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - January 19, 2023

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

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

September 17, 2024

The Role of Pediatric Hexavalent Vaccines to Leave No Child Behind on Pertussis and Polio Protection

October 15, 2024

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 Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

November 4, 2020

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

When Do the Disabled Get the Respect and Services They Deserve?

Pat Farrell PhD - June 12, 2022

Those with physical disabilities aren’t invisible, and yet we fail to adequately plan for their needs and ability to contribute to our society.

Telemedicine Drives Innovation And Transformation

John Nosta - July 20, 2022

Telemedicine Drives Innovation And Transformation - It’s the essential conduit through which digital health innovation flows.

Key Takeaways from the ARVO 2024 Annual Meeting – the Vision Science Community Gathers

SriniVas Sadda MD - May 23, 2024

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) holds an annual meeting that serves as the main forum for the vision science community...

Saving Relationship Medicine with Direct Primary Care

Stephen Schimpff, MD MACP - August 28, 2022

Better Quality, Less Frustration and Reduced Costs. What a Bargain

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

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

Christina Vaughn - October 4, 2021

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

Who Not To Trust: A List of 10 Covid-19 Charlatans and “Medical” Snake-Oil Salesmen

September 21, 2020

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

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

Medika Life - May 2, 2021

Joseph Mercola, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr,Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, Kevin Jenkins, Clay Clark

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

May 23, 2021

Scott Atlas on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020