At Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Vox practices rehabilitation medicine and subspecializes in the treatment of neurological diseases. Committed to the future of health care journalism as well, Vox produces medical features for national outlets and newspapers locally to St. Louis. While a medical student he described a freethought philosophy named Universism which unexpectedly grew into a national movement of groups in most major cities. Universism asked adherents to think rather than believe, to give up the need to have others agree with their personal metaphysics, and to celebrate uncertainty and diversity of thought. The Universist Movement's swift rise, as covered by CNN, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report and others, was matched only by its spectacular fall.

Blog Entries by Ford Vox

VIDEO: Chill, Don't Kill

5 Comments | Posted July 5, 2009 | 11:20 PM (EST)


I was reading my phone during the advertisements in a Memphis theater July 4th when I heard the catchy line, "Chill, Don't Kill." Could it be? Really? Now we need ads cajoling us not to murder one another? I turned to my wife and she confirmed it. Yes, we had...

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Want To Prevent Back Problems? Get Up!

8 Comments | Posted June 1, 2009 | 11:23 AM (EST)


My reporting for Monday's Los Angeles Times includes the statistic, derived from one study, that a solid majority of healthy people over age 60 have scoliosis of the spine. In the patient population I commonly see in St. Louis, at the university where Larry Lenke and Keith...

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