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Do You Have High Blood Pressure—or Badly Measured Blood Pressure?
Overdiagnosis is the medical version of a felony on your record—putting you at risk of overtreatment by every doctor you see
Jan 20 • Amy Alkon

December 2025

Prescribing All The Way To The Bank
How pharma company “bribe-fluencing” rigs which drug your doctor prescribes for you—and how to protect yourself
Dec 27, 2025 • Amy Alkon

November 2025

EMERGENCY ROOM DEATH BINGO
How to impolitely refuse to be sent home to die
Nov 14, 2025 • Amy Alkon

September 2025

Welcome to SCIENCE MADE PRACTICAL
Award-winning investigative science writer Amy Alkon exposes medical myths, misinformation, and malpractice and draws on science across disciplines to…
Sep 30, 2025 • Amy Alkon
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