The New Year wasn’t really the New Year until today. What’s different about today? The online edition of the Medical Examiner has arrived, chock full o’ salubrious reading, including the debut of our newest feature, The Advice Doctor. Check it out (all 16 glorious pages).
Public Service Announcement
How many premature deaths from the top five causes are preventable? Lots of them. Life is precious. Live like you have just one body that has to last an entire lifetime.
It’s an I Hate Monday.
We have an excellent suggestion for our collective hatred today: mosquitos. These little death machines infect 700 million people with disease every year. And that’s just one of the amazing facts in the vintage Medical Examiner (from 2008) brought back to life here. Here’s another sobering statistic: mosquitos kill millions of people every year. One of the most recent was …
Bully Central
The cover story in this week’s Medical Examiner (above) isn’t about neighborhood or school bullies. It’s about adults who should know better who go through life bullying clerks, waitresses and other people they view as inferior life forms. Even so, we did include a sidebar (page one, left side) about the very real and significant problem of youth bullying. It’s …
Tips from former smokers
Christine almost looks like her picture was taken from a reflection in a fun house mirror. Instead, her facial features are the result of surgery and chemotherapy that took away her teeth and jaw as the result of tobacco use and the cancer it caused. Listen to her 30-second message here (click the link), and read her biography in this …