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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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HEALTH

For Leaders, When Is it Time to Speak Out for Science?

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Retreating from the Opportunity of a Century

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Beyond Data: Why Human Decisions Are Shaped by Facts, Feelings—and the Fire Within

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

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How Real-World Evidence Proves the Power of Patient Engagement

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How the growing trade war could affect biopharma intellectual property

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

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A Digital Turning Point in Migraine Care: CT-132 FDA Approval to Market is a Win for Patients and Proof that Clinical Evidence Matters

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Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson’s Health Wake-Up Call

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Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

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JUST FOR WOMEN

Health & Pregnancy

Hair Straightening and Cancer — What Oncologists Want You to Know

Clinical Trials for Bacterial Vaginosis in Dallas, Forth Worth Area

Researchers Show Protective Antibodies Present in Breastmilk After Covid-19 Vaccination

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

Hot Flash Hack: The Latest Breakthrough for Menopausal Relief

A Cycling Accident Saved My Life

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

Goop and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Rise of The Celebrity Quack

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The Top 10 Public Health Policy Issues for Election Year 2024

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

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

Flipping the Script on Cancer Prevention

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Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

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

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Pfizer Confirms mRNA Vaccine Never Tested for Preventing COVID Transmission

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Fact-Checking Geert Vanden Bossche. Cashing in on Covid Misinformation

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Achieve Life Sciences Announces Statistically Significant Smoking Cessation Results in Phase 3 ORCA-2 Clinical Trial of Cytisinicline in Adult Smokers

Medika Life - April 27, 2022

Clinical results in primary and secondary endpoints for 6- and 12-week experimental smoking cessation treatment reported by company sponsor.

The Poor May Die While the Rich Will Play

August 23, 2022

When College Athletes Kill Themselves, Healing the Team Becomes the Next Goal

April 16, 2023

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Climate Change is a Health Crisis, So Why is Health Adaptation Financing Still Lacking?

Christopher Nial - September 24, 2023

From escalating heat-related illnesses to shifting patterns in vector-borne diseases and floods in East Libya, climate change is already taking a toll on global human health and healthcare systems.

UCHICAGO MEDICINE, SINAI JOIN CHICAGO ARC AS HEALTHCARE PARTNERS FOR HEALTH EQUITY INNOVATION

July 22, 2022

Dementia’s Silent Thief: Could Microplastics Be the Culprit?

February 18, 2025

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Hysteroscopic Myomectomy, an easy way to remove submucosal uterine fibroids.

Preparing for: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)

June 3, 2020

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

November 1, 2020

DISEASES

Cumulus Neuroscience Appoints Digital Health and Pharma Executive Aman Bhatti, MD as Chief Executive Officer

Medika Life - October 12, 2022

Tapping AliveCor Senior Executive, Cumulus Signals Progression To A Global Healthcare Company; Dr. Bhatti To Lead Expansion of AI-Based Digital Biomarker Platform To Accelerate Patient Care and Drug Development in Neurology and Neuropsychiatry

Understanding the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from a Major International Study

Christopher Nial - February 25, 2024

Studies confirm that the known risks of COVID-19 vaccines are very rare and that the benefits outweigh the potential risks.

Unveiling the Power of Aspirin: Game-Changer for Colon Cancer Prevention?

Michael Hunter, MD - June 7, 2023

ASPIRIN MIGHT PROVE TO BE AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY for preventing colon and rectal cancer cases.

Obesity: Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2023

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT OBESITY affects the brain in sex-dependent ways. Specific brain parts appear different when we compare males and females with high body mass indexes.

HEALTHY MINDS

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

When Is Exercise Not Exercise, and Is That Good Enough?

May 2, 2025

SAFETY

DANGEROUS PRODUCTS

Simone Gold and America’s Frontline Con Artists Launch a Road Trip

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - May 9, 2021

America's Frontline Doctors (AFLD) and Simone Gold, disgraced medical quack, take their medical carnival show on the road in an RV, just like Medicine men of old.

Dr. Steven Quay to Brief U.S. Congress On Origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 21, 2021

Cleverly Using Semantics to Deceive and Avoid Licensing as a Therapist?

May 30, 2021

CARDIO

HEART HEALTH

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

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2025

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

Beans Are Now the Super Food That We All Need, So Get Ready for a New Diet

March 13, 2025

Multivitamins and Longevity: A Data-Driven Deep Dive

February 26, 2025

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Debunking Nicholas Wade’s Origin of COVID Conspiracy Theory

Science Duuude - May 29, 2021

Nicholas Wade debunked by real virologists. His Origin of Covid theory is flawed. He misinterprets and misrepresents science and scientists. Wade is exposed

Dr. Judy Mikovits on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020

Kelly Brogan on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020