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

AI in Public Health: Revolution, Risk and Opportunity

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Beyond Stereotypes: The Exceptional Abilities That Make Autistic Minds Invaluable

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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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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

Dry Skin? The Truth about Water and Your Skin

Lung Cancer: It’s Not Just Cigarettes.

Uqora Develops the First Non-Antibiotic Treatment Option for UTIs

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

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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

Fasting May Fight Cancer

Michael Hunter, MD - December 30, 2021

GOT CANCER? A FASTING-MIMICKING diet may lead to positive changes in your metabolism and immune system. A new study from Milan (Italy) suggests that a severe calorie-restriction...

Interesting Findings Of Weekend Only Drinking

June 19, 2022

“Self-Care” – Wisdom Discovered Among the Papers of a Beloved Parent

May 19, 2022

ENVIRON

ECO HEALTH

Vaping Kills Brain Cells? Do We Demand Action?

Pat Farrell PhD - September 17, 2024

College student vaping is more dangerous than anyone admitted until research evidence showed it does severe damage.

The Ripple Effect of War: Conflict is Shattering the Ukrainian Public Health System

September 27, 2024

Unpacking the State of Climate Action 2023 Report

December 13, 2023

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Abdominal Hysterectomy

Macarthur Medical Center - November 1, 2020

Prepare yourself for a Robotic Hysterectomy by learning more about what the procedure entails.

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

January 20, 2021

Preparing for: Hysteroscopic Polypectomy

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Making Advanced Cancer a Chronic Disease

Michael Hunter, MD - December 22, 2021

“CANCER SPREAD” HAS SUCH dreadful implications. Having helped individuals with cancer for over three decades, discussions around metastases still shake me. Fortunately, age-adjusted death rates are...

Step Aside, Coffee — The Health Benefits of Tea

Michael Hunter, MD - September 1, 2022

WHILE TEA APPEARS TO HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS, most research investigations have been done in regions where green tea is the predominant type.

Blood Suggests Higher Cancer Risk

Michael Hunter, MD - January 23, 2022

PLATELETS COUNTS APPEAR TO BE DIRECTLY involved with cancer, suggests a growing body of laboratory research. A new study now shows elevated platelet levels associated...

In the Weeds: Unveiling Medical Marijuana Uses

Michael Hunter, MD - September 3, 2023

WANT TO STIR UP CONTROVERSY? Start talking about marijuana. Is it safe? Should it be legal? Are there health benefits? Harms? Is weed addictive? This...

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

What You Say on TeleHealth Doesn’t Stay on Telehealth. How Patient Data is Under Threat

Robert Turner, Founding Editor - March 29, 2021

If you use a Telehealth platform your data is being stored and may be sold for commercial gain to the highest bidder. The safety of Patient Data is

COVID B.1.1.7 - How Widespread Is It in the U.S. and How Worried Should We Be?

January 16, 2021

Ivermectin is Dead and Buried Despite NIH Website Misstep and Twitter Buzz

September 1, 2022

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.

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

March 23, 2021

Kerri Rivera on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 22, 2020