March 17, 2025
(NPR) – America is a deeply spiritual nation. Over 70% of us say that we feel spiritual in some way. But – at the same time – we’re getting less religious. So for people who are spiritual-but-not-religious – what’s replacing … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Wired) – Is work religion, or is religion work? Both. The hour-long discussion was part of a series of ticketed gatherings organized by ACTS 17 Collective, a nonprofit founded last year by Stephens’ wife, health care startup executive Michelle Stephens. … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Nuffield Council on Bioethics) – A new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) combines detailed insights from England’s first Citizens’ Jury on assisted dying and two nationally representative surveys of 2000 people to provide a timely and comprehensive … Read More
March 10, 2025
(The Verge) – ChatGPT has a trolley problem problem. ChatGPT’s ethics framework, which is probably the most extensive outline of a commercial chatbot’s moral vantage point, was bad for my blood pressure. First of all, lip service to nuance aside, … Read More
March 3, 2025
(NBC News) – An Australian man credited with saving more than 2 million babies through decades of regular blood and plasma donations has died at age 88. James Harrison, whose blood contained a rare antibody, died in his sleep Feb. … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins unexpectedly retired on Friday, writing in a statement that employees of the government’s biomedical research institution “deserve the utmost respect and support of all Americans.” Why it matters: The noted … Read More
February 28, 2025
(New York Times) – She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?” Ms. Girone was believed to be the … Read More
February 24, 2025
(New York Times) – Luigi Mangione faced a hearing on Friday as supporters planned a rally outside a Manhattan courthouse. Some Americans have found a hero in the man accused of vigilante murder. Supporters, some of whom have championed his … Read More
February 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Vatican officials have said Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating his recovery. The 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened. On Monday, doctors said he had developed a mix … Read More
February 4, 2025
(BBC) – Auschwitz was established in 1940 when Nazi Germany opened a new camp complex in Oświęcim in southern Poland to hold prisoners. What began as a political prison of Polish nationals evolved into a death factory of Europe’s Jews, … Read More
February 3, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade talked for the first time yesterday about his surgery for kidney cancer in December 2023. During an episode of “The WY Network” podcast, Wade revealed that he underwent a partial nephrectomy, … Read More
January 30, 2025
(New York Times) – She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants. Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then … Read More
January 28, 2025
(Barron’s) – The Vatican published a new text on artificial intelligence (AI) Tuesday, warning the tool could destroy the trust on which societies are built, while humans become “cogs in a machine”. Pope Francis, regularly a victim of fake news … Read More
January 27, 2025
(The Guardian) – Monday 27 January is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Three survivors, two of whom were interned there as teenagers, tell Kate Connolly their stories. Before the Nazis came … Read More
January 21, 2025
(Aeon) – Nurses experience deep suffering when they can’t act according to their moral compass. Our research shows a way forward While physicians and surgeons are not exempt from moral suffering, nurses are especially vulnerable to it. Due to the … Read More
January 20, 2025
(NPR) – Cecile Richards, a prominent advocate for women’s rights and other progressive causes, died Monday. In a statement, her family confirmed her death, saying she passed away at home, “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie.” (Read More)
January 16, 2025
(Christianity Today) – Even as wildfires burn neighborhoods nearby, destroying the homes of some faculty and students, Pepperdine University is starting its spring semester by helping local firefighters in Los Angeles. With firefighters in the area facing water shortages, the … Read More
January 15, 2025
(NPR) – The Princess of Wales revealed Tuesday that her cancer is in remission after an emotional visit to the hospital where she received treatment last year. In a statement on social media, the princess offered her heartfelt thanks to … Read More
January 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet. For centuries, new technologies have changed the ways people worship, from the radio in the 1920s to television sets … Read More
January 7, 2025
(Vox) – We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but then became … Read More
December 30, 2024
(New York Times) – In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world. Jimmy Carter’s five decades of leadership in global health brought a … Read More
December 27, 2024
(New York Times) – Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients. Now, some people up for top … Read More
December 27, 2024
(Wired) – By learning lessons from other sectors, public health can ensure it is ready to face future outbreaks in record time. Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are … Read More
December 24, 2024
(STAT News) – In the wake of the tragic murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, all of us who serve in health care must take time to pause and reflect on how we move forward. As a religious sister and … Read More
December 23, 2024
(New York Times) – Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. Determined to train as a physician at the highest level, in 1868 Putnam — a daughter of the prominent New … Read More
