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Healthcare today is increasingly shaped by actuarial logic rather than human outcomes. Coverage decisions are driven by algorithms, prior authorizations delay care, and access...

Has Therapeutic Touch Lost Its Way in Medicine? Or Is It Lawsuits?

Pat Farrell PhD - May 16, 2022

Touch has become a subject of lawsuits and medical interventions. The MeToo movement pulled touch into an unexpected, negative spotlight in our culture.

New National Survey of People Living with Bipolar I Disorder Provides Insights Into Disease-Related Challenges and the Treatment Journey

Medika Life - January 12, 2022

Respondents Reported Physical and Psychosocial Impacts of Living with Bipolar I Disorder and Side Effects of Medications Used to Treat the Disease More Than...

If Deaths of Small Children Do Not Move Us to Action What Will?

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - March 27, 2023

Weapons of war, such as AR-15s, have no place in people’s home arsenals. Its bullet's caliber rips its target apart – going in small and exiting like the size of a fist.

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