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Health providers must provide adequate information regarding the risks and benefits for informed consent to take place through shared decision-making.

Exposing the Dark World of Predatory Health

Medika Life - December 31, 2020

Predatory Health is the greatest challenge modern healthcare faces. Practitioners of predatory health are undermining trust in vaccines and proven medical practices.

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

Medika Life - April 21, 2025

In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re on fire. Specialists recommended a series of infusions to ease her pain, but her insurer refused to pay for the expensive treatment, which it says is “not considered medically necessary.”

Giant Health System Almost Saved a Community Hospital. Now, It Wants to ‘Extract Every Dollar’

Medika Life - July 23, 2023

For most of last year, St. Agnes Medical Center, based in Fresno, California, looked like a white knight poised to rescue smaller Madera Community...

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