PSA of the Week

Yes, we usually do this on Tuesdays. Did you see the PSA of the Week posted on the Medical Examiner Facebook page? Check it out on Facebook.com/AugustaRX. Here’s another one that perfectly coincides with the stunning figures about breastfeeding (or the lack thereof in a report just published in The Lancet. Just to give you one small fact: near-universal levels …

This week’s Public Service Announcement

In keeping with our philosophy that many healthful things do not originate from a stethoscope, a scalpel or a pharmacy, we offer this week’s PSA. Keeping the five words shown in mind will help us all get stuff done. That helps vanquish stress and build contentment and self-confidence – and momentum to get still more stuff done. And remember, even …

Here’s a great PSA for the week. Cast in stone, no less.

The story behind this rock: Roger Babson (1875-1967), remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida. Babson was interested in the history of an abandoned settlement in Gloucester, MA, known as Dogtown. …

The PSA of the Week

Not to toot our own horn – something we’re loathe to do – but did you notice that the Medical Examiner now features The Advice Doctor as of the premiere issue of 2016? Yes, the rumors are true, even though you thought they were too good to be true. But sometimes when something seems too good to be true, that …

Check out this week’s PSA

It’s the true story of a young down-under physician in New South Wales, a jogger in Los Angeles, a cantankerous old lady half a world away, an unborn baby and an unfit driver, and how their lives all intertwine with tragic consequences. All that in just six and a half minutes. But there is a positive moral to the story, …

The PSA of the Week

Blizzards. Flooding. Mud. Snow. Ice. Slippery conditions. You need this Public Service Announcement, courtesy of The Art of Manliness. But even more than this, you need to drive carefully. The best way to get your car unstuck, after all, is not to get stuck in the first place.

It is this week’s PSA

With apologies to all Facebook friends, yours and mine, friends are only friends when they’re friends in 3D. Sorry, but Facebook friends don’t count.

A very seasonal PSA

It’s really easy this time of year to amass debt that can take months (if not years) to repay. And while you’re doing it (paying it off slowly and laboriously), you would be extremely hard-pressed to remember even 5% of what you bought. The better course may not do a lot for the economy, but it will do a lot …

It’s the PSA of the Week

…and this 4-step process, complicated and time-consuming though it might seem, is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of colds and flu, according to public health experts. So print this step-by-step guide (or take notes of the 4 steps) and post it near sinks in your home or office.