PSA of the Week

This may come across sounding a little self-serving, but that is not our intention. Honest. It is a genuine Public Service Announcement, a PSA, offered in the interests of improved public health. As a public service. It concerns a letter we received last week from a loyal reader of the Augusta Medical Examiner. It went something like this: “Dear Medical …

The Helicopter Issue drops

Not literally, silly. I don’t need the NTSB on my case. But the cover story today is about a disturbing trend: jailing moms (and sometimes dads) for leaving their kids unattended for five minutes. You know, the kind of things our parents used to do to us for five hours. Mothers are being hauled off to jail; kids are being …

The key to better health

No disrespect to doctors, pills and scalpels intended, but watch this brief video and you’ll realize there’s a more fundamental and effective way to improve health – and it comes with all kinds of additional quality of life benefits. Turns out, teachers and books can sometimes do more than doctors and nurses.

The latest issue!

Seriously. The very latest issue. Thanks to alert reader Ann (and un-alert publisher Dan) last week’s Medical Examiner has been posted only at Issuu.com (www.issuu.com/medicalexaminer), not here. Ladies and gentlemen, there is one word for that: Duh! And so, without further ado, here is the latest issue – ever. PS: For the record, the Examiner, in more than 150 issues, …

Fire up the iPad!

It’s the latest Medical Examiner full of, well, if not chocolatey goodness, at least a lot of tasty articles that encourage and promote health and wellness. And we’re not suggesting you live on celery, either. No, we even have a feature article about the benefits of snacks. So go ye forth and read, cover to cover. Just click on the …

The digital Medical Examiner

The recipe for better health: click here. Why is this version better than the print edition? For one thing, it has color on every page. Oh, and it has the correct solution to this week’s crossword puzzle. And that’s just for starters. Open publication – Free publishing – More health

NUMB3RS

Hardly a day goes by without hearing big numbers, numbers that despite their familiarity – after all, you can’t go too many days without hearing the worn-out phrase, “…that’s billion with a B…” – are practically abstract concepts. The human mind can only comprehend so much. This week’s Augusta Medical Examiner cover story deals with lots of amazing numbers that …