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Blending Renaissance Thinking and Collaborative Power to Address Global Health Challenges

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HEALTH

The Number That Predicts How Fast You’re Aging

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Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Trump’s Drug Price Gambit: Cheaper for America, But Who Pays the Price?

How Real-World Evidence Proves the Power of Patient Engagement

How the growing trade war could affect biopharma intellectual property

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

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Chlamydia: The Most Common Bacterial STI and How to Avoid It

Common Methods of Inducing Labor During Pregnancy

Aspirin. Your Heart’s Best Friend, or Maybe Not

Dense Breasts: The Hidden Risk You Can’t Ignore

Your Body Ages in Leaps: Stanford’s Surprising Findings at Ages 44 and 60

Hot Flash Hack: The Latest Breakthrough for Menopausal Relief

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Startling Statistic: Growing Trend of Breast Cancer in Younger Females

The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

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Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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The Quack Scale

We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated

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MENTAL

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Lifestyle Changes Significantly Improve Cognition and Function in Early Alzheimer’s Disease for the First Time in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Medika Life - June 7, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, a randomized controlled clinical trial has demonstrated that an intensive lifestyle intervention, without drugs, significantly improved...

In the Weeds: Unveiling Medical Marijuana Uses

September 3, 2023

Fairy Tales Shock and May Deceive—Are They Still Relevant?

June 7, 2024

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Securing our Economic Future Against Malaria

Richard Hatzfeld - August 20, 2023

Malaria remains one of the greatest public health threats facing humanity.

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

September 17, 2024

Climate Week NYC 2024: The Runway of Global Climate Action

September 13, 2024

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EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Endometrial Ablation

Medika Life - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for an Endometrial Ablation by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Feeling Anxious or Blue? Might Be Your Diet

Michael Hunter, MD - September 12, 2022

COULD ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS INFLUENCE YOUR MOOD? The answer may be yes.

The Perils of Colorful Sweets

Michael Hunter, MD - January 10, 2022

EARLY-ONSET COLORECTAL CANCER INCIDENCE IS rising, with more disease cases among those under age 50 years. The risk has been rising globally since the early 1990s. Scientists...

Obesity Causes Cancer? It’s Complicated

Michael Hunter, MD - May 1, 2022

BEING OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE IS ASSOCIATED with a higher risk of more than a dozen cancers.

Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance

Medika Life - May 31, 2020

Insulin resistance and prediabetes occur when your body doesn’t use insulin well.

HEALTHY MINDS

Galen Growth FemTech 2.0 Report: Elevating Women’s Health from Niche to Necessity

June 9, 2025

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

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Aspirin. Your Heart’s Best Friend, or Maybe Not

Medika Life - October 13, 2021

Aspirin is used by over 29 million Americans daily to prevent CVD and Stroke. New advice suggests we may want to rethink our use of the drug

The Facts About Fetal Cells and Covid Vaccines Explained

May 7, 2021

The Complete A to Z of Long Haul Covid Symptoms. What you Need to Know

April 27, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

Blending Renaissance Thinking and Collaborative Power to Address Global Health Challenges

Gil Bashe, Medika Life Editor - June 9, 2025

When I first encountered Yasushi Yamamoto—musician, philosopher, investor, and Founder and CEO of Corundum—I was struck by how naturally he speaks of Renaissance ideals...

Galen Growth FemTech 2.0 Report: Elevating Women’s Health from Niche to Necessity

June 9, 2025

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

April 23, 2025

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Robert F Kennedy Jnr Appropriates Racism and Apartheid To Fuel Vaccine Fear

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 28, 2021

Robert F Kennedy Jnr's latest movie, Medical Racism, the New Apartheid is pure appropriation of racism and culture to fuel his aniti-vaccine campaign

Prof Dolores Cahill is the Latest Quack to Commit Career Suicide

May 23, 2021

Dr Joseph Mercola on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 17, 2020