I have issues.

Here’s one right here, for example: What’s in this puppy? Well, there is a NEW COLUMN DEBUT: “Kid’s Stuff: Notes from a Pediatric Intern” on hot weather hydration; plus Men’s Health on stress; Rene Le Fort and his cadaver research; The Money Doctor on disability insurance; Bad Billy: Why are drugs so expensive?; World Medicine; poison ivy; brain fitness activities; …

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

We turn our 100,000 candlepower spotlights on two cover stories this issue: preventing strokes (always important this time of year in Augusta) and speeding. Let’s take a moment here for just one of those: speeding, and why it’s ineffective and illogical. Driving at 60 mph, you’re covering a mile a minute, right? If you spend that entire hour at 65 …

The latest, maybe the greatest

Is this the best Medical Examiner yet? That’s up to you, the reader, to individually decide. What could make this YPB (Your Personal Best)? Well, what if the cover story (ironically, the cover story is on page 6) convinced you to get diagnosed and treated for something that would otherwise kill you, or at least make your life miserable? That …

It’s another fresh new issue!

And it’s a doozie! (Or do you say doozy?) Looking for home-grown natural foods at markets, restaurants and farmstands? Kim Beavers (of WRDW’s “Eating Well with Kim” fame) dishes on all the best spots. And what about local/home-grown versus organic? She’ll fill you in there too. Also in this issue, a quite memorable Medicine in the First Person. We’ll call …

Do not adjust your screen

You wouldn’t want to do that, because what we have here is (not) a failure to communicate. Instead, this issue contains a ton — well, to get technical it’s only about eighteen hundred pounds — of useful information that will encourage you to be a healthier person and live weller longer. Haven’t you always wanted to live weller? Of course …

Hot off the presses!

It’s today’s red-hot Medical Examiner, chock full of salubrious information to make this sweet life even sweeter. Just to whet your appetite: • almost enough information to qualify you to perform open heart-surgery • sweet news about chocolate and heart health • a book review of great ideas for intelligent tattoos, if you’re into that sort of thing and want some …

Today’s Examiner

The Medical Examiner is fresh, never frozen, even during our recent stretch of polar temperatures. It’s always gluten free, low in cholesterol and saturated fats, and it won’t stick to most dental work. So there’s no reason not to enjoy every last morsel of healthful goodness it contains. Bon appetit!

Today’s phat – I mean fat – issue

Yes, here is today’s issue in all its full-color glory, chock full of information that encourages healthier living, and yet is a low 2.7 on the I.N.S. (International Nagging Scale). One feature of note among the dozens: the print version has the incorrect solution to the Quotation Puzzle. This digital version corrects that mistake, and we would add our apologies …

Today marks exactly 198 years

Can you imagine having a tooth pulled without novocaine? Having an ingrown toenail treated without local anesthesia? What about having a wound of some kind cauterized with a red-hot poker while you’re watching, fully alert? As one doctor says in this week’s cover articles, medicine at one time was like the Spanish Inquisition. The screams of patients haunted him decades …

Today’s paper!

Delivered electronically, completely free of Fido saliva, ants from the front yard, ink smudges on your face and hands, etc. And as always, compared to the print edition it’s slightly more typo-free. Have you ever thought to yourself, “Smokers are crazy”? Well, you’re correct, and we have proof, right there on page one, courtesy of John Gever of MedPage Today. …