“The Trouble with Breathing”

As you may know, that (see above) is the title of the cover story in the current issue of the Medical Examiner. It’s about bad breath, its cures and prevention, what it might mean beyond garlic and onions, and also what medical researchers have up their sleeves using breath for tests. Here’s a hint: it would eliminate needles. Read all …

The very latest issue!

To review, the regular 1st Friday issue date (July 5) was totally unworkable. We asked everyone to stay open on July 4th so we could deliver, but only 87 percent of all medical offices agreed, so we decided to postpone the Examiner by one week and go with the 2nd and 4th Fridays, this month and next. And so, without …

The PSA of the Week

The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin illegal. Do you think it ended prejudice? Not hardly. It just made it illegal. Fast forward a few decades. Recent laws enacted in Georgia and elsewhere have made texting while driving illegal. Do you think the practice has stopped? Of course not. …

Uncle Sam wants bloodless surgery

As a growing number of doctors now recognize, blood is the most dangerous drug in their arsenal. Why? It’s much more than a drug: transfusing it amounts to an organ transplant (albeit a liquid organ), yet it’s administered with none of the precautions associated with other organ transplants. Its use could sometimes be described as casual. As one doctor told …

Ides of March Issue!

Prefer to read the Examiner online? Here’s the goods. And while we’re at it, happy Match Day! Open publication – Free publishing – More health

OCTOBER 5 ISSUE: Here

It’s never fun to have a typo in a headline, let alone the lead story on page one. For the record, the headline was supposed to be “Breast Cancer.” Well, it’s printed. Not a lot we can do about it now. We’ll just have to go with “Beat Cancer” which, upon further reflection, is not the worst typo we’ve ver …