For Doctors

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

Medika Life 50 Top Healthcare Voices of Influence for 2022. Engage with leading voices, amplify their reach and expand your…

4 years ago

Wordle Highlights the Essential Nature of Shared Experience

"Did you do the Wordle?" "Wait!! Don't tell me! I haven't done it yet!" Almost every day, these words are…

4 years ago

Cutting-Edge Innovation Is Not Enough To Save Lives

Yesterday, my 97-year-old physician father-in-law died.  His longevity was the result of great medical advances during the past two decades,…

4 years ago

Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

[Reprinted with permission from Kaiser Health News - Author Jordan Rau. The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including…

4 years ago

It’s Not Your Father’s Stethoscope

Those rubber and metal tubes are certainly iconic—that device that rests over the shoulders of clinicians.  It’s a badge of…

4 years ago

Was 2019 a High-Water Mark for Global Public Health?

There is a reason most children today live into adulthood, women around the world no longer feel like surviving childbirth…

4 years ago

Aiding and Abetting a Virus

Viruses are the ultimate freeloaders. The best among them — influenza, smallpox and SARS-CoV-2 — spread easily among human hosts…

4 years ago

Deep Roots Help This Chicago Pharmacist Avoid Creating Another Drugstore Desert

[This article, authored by Markian Hawryluk, appeared in Fortune and KHN News and is reprinted with permission.] CHICAGO — Del-Kar Pharmacy…

4 years ago

Is Bone Loss a Male Problem, Too?

WITH OSTEOPOROSIS, THE BONES BECOME WEAK and brittle. Fall, and you may suffer a bone break. Even minimal activity such as…

4 years ago

Rethinking Blood Pressure

IS YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE NORMAL? Are you sure? Researchers are moving the bar on what constitutes an “ideal” blood pressure. Today…

4 years ago

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