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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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Health & Pregnancy

Gestational Diabetes, Risks and Treatment

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Got Hot Flashes? You Might Want to Try This Diet

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

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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?

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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

Hope Is A Word I No Longer Use With COVID Copy

Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa - May 12, 2021

An ICU doctor describes his emotional journey with the Coronavirus and its impact on both him and his patients over the pandemic. Hope and Covid

Policies and Policing Didn’t Stem Opioid Abuse – Can Tech Be A Solution?

September 20, 2022

WMCHealth Launches Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program

October 24, 2020

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The Environment and Our Health. Medika’s Open Call for Articles from Stakeholders

Medika Life - July 30, 2021

Submit articles to Medika this August on the Environment and our health. EcoHealth Article submissions are now open. Finn Partners and Medika

Reimagining a World for Health and Environmental Health for Sustainable Well-Being – Part 2

May 20, 2022

Carrying On in a World That Can Seem Beyond Repair

October 12, 2022

CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for Cesarean Delivery (C-Section)

Macarthur Medical Center - November 4, 2020

When the baby is delivered through an incision in the abdomen and uterus, it is called a cesarean section or C-section delivery. Information on the procedure

Preparing for: Colposcopy

June 25, 2020

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

June 3, 2020

DISEASES

Breast Cancer

Medika Life - June 22, 2020

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. Mammograms can detect breast cancer early, possibly before it has spread.

The Scary Reality of Modern Healthcare

Charles Black - June 2, 2022

We often don’t know what we are doing, but we can’t stop. Science and research never stop.

Heading Off Heartburn

Michael Hunter, MD - April 21, 2022

GERD, reflux and GI disorders can be painful and worrisome. Dr. Michael Hunter offers some common sense wisdom to prevent discomfort.

How Much Deep Sleep Do You Need?

Michael Hunter, MD - January 23, 2022

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”― Ernest Hemingway THE BENEFITS OF SLEEP are numerous. Like eating...

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

Voluntary Recall: Two Lots of NP Thyroid® Tablets, Due to Sub Potency

Medika Life - September 19, 2020

Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC is voluntarily recalling one lot of 15-mg and one lot of 120-mg NP Thyroid®, Thyroid Tablets, USP [levothyroxine (T4) and liothyronine (T3)] to the consumer level.

How Medika’s Quack Scale Works

November 15, 2020

mRNA Technology, Human DNA and The Traffic Flow of Genetic Material

April 10, 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

The Dirtiest Dozen. Meet The Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Covid Health Grifters

Medika Life - May 2, 2021

Joseph Mercola, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr,Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji and Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, Kevin Jenkins, Clay Clark

Dr. Judy Mikovits on Medika’s Quack Scale

November 16, 2020

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

June 6, 2021