Don't Air Sensationalist Trauma: What Al Jazeera Can Teach American Media
The Doha-based news agency refuses to televise footage of France's Jewish school shooting.… More »
Ford Vox is a brain injury physician and journalist based in Boston. His writing on health care policy and medical science has appeared in diverse media outlets including Reuters, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Salon and Slate. More
The Doha-based news agency refuses to televise footage of France's Jewish school shooting.… More »
San Diego police recognized that the Invisible Children founder's episode this week was not a criminal one. Why have most of us ignored that?… More »
Ultimately, Americans want the freedom to make personal health decisions on their own, without the various institutions around us.… More »
Andrew Cuomo should demand the pharmaceutical reseller prevent the chemicals from being used in execution chambers.… More »
John Kitzhaber has announced an end to death sentences during his term, but he doesn't have a problem with other states ending lives.… More »
A doctor who oversaw traumatic brain injury cases at two busy rehabilitation hospitals on the medical aftermath of Boston's big problem.… More »
If the governor is serious about his anti-capital punishment stance, he would make sure the state's death drugs never see another chamber.… More »
If Governor John Kitzhaber is so opposed to capital punishment, he should end his state's sale of lethal-injection drugs.… More »
The European Union is now blocking importation of lethal injection technology into the United States… More »
An editing mistake at the Sun-Sentinel on a story about a doctor losing his license for not reporting a pregnant 12-year-old upset many… More »
We have the right to be political actors -- doctors are citizens too -- but we risk harming the default credibility that comes with the profession if we don't choose our battles carefully… More »
Ablow, a member of the Fox News 'Medical A-Team,' doesn't want kids watching Chaz Bono because, he says, it could turn them transsexual… More »
The pitfalls of airing personal grievances publicly, as Theresa Brown did against a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center physician this week… More »
The feds have busted 12 shady STD treatment companies—and the Better Business Bureau might be collateral damage… More »
In a season of intense storms, a mile-wide twister has just consumed much of one Southern town… More »
The latest generation of reactors brings the risk of meltdowns close to zero. A case for rethinking nuclear power.… More »
Optometrists, ophthalmologists—same thing, right? Kentucky joined the company of Oklahoma as the second state to conflate the two types of eye doctors.… More »
Fears over becoming hostage to soaring health insurance premiums has Wisconsin's teachers and other public employees protesting in downtown Madison for the second week running. It's a very real threat to their economic stability, one they'll be ill-equipped to tackle without the unionizing rights proposed legislation would deny them.No doubt many members of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Family Medicine share the teachers' concerns. Public employees…… More »
Four years ago, astronaut Lisa Nowak attacked her rival. This week, a 20/20 story about the case reminds us that personality disorders go deeper than any one assault.… More »
As the representative integrates back into the world, Dr. Sherer will help her and her family solve practical problems as life goes on… More »
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