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When Free Speech Hurts: TikTok, Eating Disorders, and the Ethics of the Algorithm
Freedom of speech was not designed to help teenagers starve. Yet on TikTok, it often does. A single swipe can...
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The Language of Self-Care: Are Wellness Trends Redefining Healing or Just Selling It?
It begins, as many things do now, with a scroll. A 23-year-old nestled in bed with curtains drawn declares, “I’m...
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The Wellness Mirage: Parsing Hype from Health in the Functional Beverage Boom
Walk through a grocery aisle or scroll TikTok’s “wellness” corner, and hydration has never looked so stylish—or so expensive. Rows...
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The Cult of the Gut: Untangling Hype from Health in the Age of Probiotics
It begins in the gut—or so we’re told. Anxiety, weight gain, immunity, even brain fog: according to wellness influencers and...
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The Menopause Market: Destigmatizing Care or Commercializing Women’s Health?
Menopause is having a cultural moment—and not a quiet one. From Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop-endorsed supplements to telehealth hormone therapy startups...
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The Mental Health Credibility Gap: When Awareness Becomes Strategy
It begins with a confession. A young project manager shares on LinkedIn how they took a mental health day after...
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The Politics of Wellness: How the MAHA Movement Repackages Vaccine Skepticism
In the shadow of America’s post-pandemic reckoning, a new health movement has emerged—one that doesn’t wear lab coats or promote...
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Fighting Back: Why Physicians Must Speak Up
In a just world, evidence guides verdicts, jurors uphold impartiality, and the government operates without political agendas. But in the...
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Optimizing Semaglutide Therapy: When to Add Other Peptides like Sermorelin and Enhancing Bioavailability with Multiple Forms
Understanding the Synergistic Effects of Peptide Combinations and the Pharmacokinetics of Semaglutide Delivery Methods
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Denials as a Feature, Not a Bug: How Systemic Health Insurance Practices Constitute Fraud
Introduction: The Hidden Strategy of Health Insurance Denials For millions of Americans, dealing with health insurance claims is a frustrating...
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Danger of Physicians Speaking Freely
Dr. Swetech, now retired, was seeing patients back in 2017. These patients claimed to have pain, and he was prescribing...
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Employers Don’t Really Care About Your Mental Health
Mental health is a topic that is often overlooked in the modern workplace, yet it can have a significant impact...
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Ambient Artificial Intelligence Clinical Documentation: Workflow Support with Emerging Governance Risk
Health systems are increasingly deploying ambient artificial intelligence tools that listen to clinical encounters and automatically generate draft visit notes. These systems are intended to reduce documentation burden and allow clinicians to focus more directly on patient interaction. At the same time, they raise unresolved questions about patient consent, data handling, factual accuracy, and legal responsibility for machine‑generated records. Recent policy discussions and legal actions suggest that adoption is moving faster than formal oversight frameworks. The practical clinical question is...
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