Editors’ Note: See also Workers Are Us in today’s issue. Bernardino Ramazzini (1633–1714), an Italian physician, was appointed to the chair of theory of medicine at the University of Modena in 1682 and served as professor of medicine at the… Read More ›
Health Care
The Rise of the Cyborgs
By Frank Blechman The Christmas/New Year’s holiday offer an extended time for reflection. Driving to visit far-flung family and friends gave me even more. And, the visits provided a time to compare my thoughts with those of others. I took… Read More ›
American Genius at Work: Charities
One of the most notable and attractive hallmarks of American society is the extent and breadth of its charitable energies and organizations representing, at once, testimony to the spirit of the nation and its willingness to share its resources to… Read More ›
VA Prison Officials Turn Working Moms into Smugglers
Nurse in SE Virginia prison smuggles disassembled breast pump after facing repeated roadblocks to legal pumping. (This article is excerpted from a story by Natalie Kitroeff in the January 6, 2019 New York Times.) CAPRON, Va. — At 3 a.m. on a… Read More ›
UPDATE: New GOP Congressman Links Vaccines, Autism, then Walks It Back
Editors’ Note: On November 4, 2018, VoxFairfax published an article entitled Fear Rules, Health Suffers, on parents choosing not to vaccinate their children (https://voxfairfax.com/2018/11/04/fear-rules-health-suffers/). As shown below, the issue just will not go away. Mark Green is a newly elected Republican congressman… Read More ›
Fear Rules, Health Suffers
Why is it that even as science moves forward with new discoveries, there are those who don’t trust, whose fear makes them want to hold back, with no link to rationality? Perhaps the best example of this is the so-called… Read More ›
‘We’re America, Bitch’: Breast Milk and the Swamp
Although the current foreign policy of the United States was not formally announced until June 11, 2018, in The Atlantic Daily [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/a-senior-white-house-official-defines-the-trump-doctrine-were-america-bitch/562511/] to be We’re America, Bitch, the doctrine had been evident to observers for some time. Now, reports have… Read More ›