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Why Improving Women’s Health Around the World is Urgent

Jeanne Conry MD - June 30, 2023

Women often provide for their families, communities, and the people around them. If women are healthier, it impacts everyone around them and eventually leads to healthier newborns, children, families, households, and communities. Leaders who prioritize women’s health can overcome gender inequality and improve the overall population’s health.

Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Medika Life - June 22, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant...

Inside the High-Stakes Battle Over Vaccine Injury Compensation, Autism, and Public Trust

Medika Life - October 12, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a seismic idea: adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the...

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