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

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

Christopher Nial -

Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

Pat Farrell PhD -

Clinic Notes: What My Patients Said This Week

Michael Hunter, MD -

Shining a Light on Early Cancer Detection

Overwork Is Rewiring Your Brain. Here’s What Neuroscience Wants You to Know

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How Unconscious Beliefs Distort Our Perception of Disability

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Back to the Future of Medicine: The Physician Reimagined

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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OPINION & IMPACT
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

Texas: Endometriosis Clinical Study Participants – Women’s Health

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

The Mammary Glands

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

KEEP IN TOUCH

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

The Quack Scale

Reiner Fuellmich Fact Checked and Exposed as a Covid Conspiracy Con

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Video of Jordon Walker, Supposed Pfizer Researcher, Goes Viral

The Quack Scale

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

The Quack Scale

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

MENTAL

HEALTHY MINDS

Are Lives Lost by Cognitively Impaired/Drug-Abusing Physicians? Who Reports Them?

Pat Farrell PhD - June 1, 2022

Oversight of cognitively impaired or drug-abusing physicians/healthcare workers is a serious, delicate matter.

Your Brain Benefits From Walking

February 13, 2022

Mindset Hacks for Chronic Pain Flare-Ups

November 13, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

PFAS Is a Culprit Affecting Health, and It’s in Packaging — But No More in the USA

Pat Farrell PhD - March 3, 2024

The FDA has issued new guidelines for removing PFAS from food packaging after it has proven dangerous for our health.

New Money From CDC Can Reduce the High Rate of Birth Defects in Texas

July 11, 2021

Why Fossil Fuel Industry Efforts Must be Monitored Before and During COP28

June 16, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Permanent Birth Control or Bilateral Salpingectomy

Dr Jeff Livingston - June 3, 2020

A bilateral salpingectomy is an outpatient procedure to permanently prevent pregnancy and reduce the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer.

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

Preparing for: Robotic Hysterectomy

October 12, 2020

DISEASES

Rapunzel Wasn’t Simply in a Castle; It’s a Psychiatric Syndrome

Pat Farrell PhD - October 14, 2024

Remember the maiden told to “let down your hair” so the prince could climb up to reach her? Yup, there’s more to that.

Coffee, Sugar, and Mortality

Michael Hunter, MD - September 15, 2022

Does adding a little sugar destroy coffee’s mortality benefit?

How to Choose a Chronic Pain Recovery Coach

Anna Holtzman - December 11, 2022

The world of chronic pain recovery is going through a Renaissance period.

Galactorrhea or Milky Nipple Discharge in Women

Medika Life - October 28, 2020

Galactorrhea is a discharge of milk or a milk-like secretion from the breast in women who aren't breast feeding or in women six months post-partum.

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

The New Covid Vaccine Trials. Has Moderna Just Crossed an Ethical Line?

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 17, 2021

Moderna has just announced the launch of a new series of Covid Vaccine trials for its mRNA vaccine. These trials are to be held on children, some as young as six months.

Covid Patients in India Warned About Scammers Selling Fake Medicines and Cures

April 26, 2021

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

May 9, 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

Dr. Stella Immanuel on Medika’s Quack Scale

Medika Life - November 25, 2020

Dr. Stella Immanuel scores 5 out of 5 on Medika's Quack Scale. She poses a high risk to the general public and we recommend against following any of her advice.

Worshiping at The Alter of Zach Bush’s Messianic Health Cult

May 15, 2021

America’s Frontline Doctors Want to Become the New Republic’s NIH

June 6, 2021