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 ›
Health Care
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 ›