August 25, 2014
(Washington Post) – The Cincinnati Archdiocese has warned Catholic school principals against donating to the ALS Association due to concerns that the money could wind up funding research that uses embryonic stem cells. Archdiocese spokesman Dan Andriacco told the Cincinnati … Read More
August 18, 2014
(New York Times) – The sages could not have anticipated that their writings would provide the underpinnings for cultural resistance to organ donation from the deceased in 21st-century Israel. But their definition of mortality, which can conflict with modern acceptance … Read More
August 8, 2014
(Associated Press) – Myanmar’s child malnutrition rate was already among the region’s highest, but it’s an increasingly familiar sight in the country’s westernmost state of Rakhine, which is home to almost all of the country’s 1.3 million Rohingya Muslims. More … Read More
August 8, 2014
4th Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion March 6-8, 2015 Hyatt Regency Cambridge Cambridge, Massachusetts See here for call for abstracts and event information.
July 31, 2014
(Washington Post) – According to the survey published in the daily La Stampa this week, 61 percent of Italians support abortion and 76 percent believe they should be able to request the right to die. By comparison, only 44 percent … Read More
July 29, 2014
Christian Bioethics (Vol. 20, No. 2, August 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Recent History of Christian Bioethics Critically Reassessed” by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. “In Defense of the Amphibians: A Critical Appraisal of Engelhardt on … Read More
June 26, 2014
(New York Times) – In a case weighing the government’s ability to require vaccination against the individual right to refuse it, a federal judge has upheld a New York City policy that bars unimmunized children from public school when another … Read More
June 9, 2014
Hosted by the ?Initiative ?on ?Islam ?& ?Medicine ?within ?the ?Program ?on ? Medicine ?and ?Religion ?and ?the ?Maclean ?Center ?for ?Clinical ? Medical ?Ethics ?at ?the ?University ?of ?Chicago CME Credit provided by Association ?of ?Physicians ?of ?Pakistani ?Descent ?of ?North ?America August 1-3, 2014 University of Chicago Hospitals Chicago, Illinois See here for registration information.
June 5, 2014
(Associated Press) – A federal judge has granted nearly 200 Catholic employers an injunction to temporarily prevent the U.S. government from forcing them to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives. The Catholic Benefits Association filed a lawsuit in March alleging that … Read More
June 4, 2014
(BBC) – With figures showing that many people around the world die painfully due to scarce access to morphine, the World Health Organization is calling for improvements to end of life care. But even when pain medication is available, the … Read More
May 5, 2014
(USA Today) – How people approach death and near-death experiences can vary widely among cultures. Belief systems affect whether a patient asks to die at home or in the hospital, whether an individual will make decisions about final care alone … Read More
April 18, 2014
(Time) – Sure, it’s easy to dismiss people who think they can somehow cheat death with a laptop. But Terasem is a potent symbol of a modern way of life where the digital world and the emotional one have become … Read More
January 28, 2014
This year the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on at least two cases that weigh constitutional and statutory law against religious or moral beliefs. Both involve challenges to the Obamacare provision that requires for-profit companies to offer health insurance policies … Read More
January 13, 2014
The Justice Department has argued that the nuns’ group is already exempt from providing birth control under the ACA, as long as it certifies its standing as a religious nonprofit. But the Little Sisters of the Poor, represented by the … Read More
January 6, 2014
The U.S. government asked the Supreme Court on Friday not to allow Roman Catholic-affiliated groups a temporary exemption from a part of the Obamacare healthcare law that requires employers to provide insurance policies covering contraception. On Tuesday night, Justice Sonia … Read More
January 2, 2014
The Obama administration was temporarily blocked by a U.S. Supreme Court justice from forcing an order of Catholic nuns to comply with a federal requirement to provide free contraceptive coverage for employees. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s two-sentence order will last at … Read More
December 19, 2013
With Christmas all but a week away, what better way for scientists to spend the holiday season than researching modern day cases of virgin birth? As it turns out, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found … Read More
December 10, 2013
In a health crisis, patients and families may turn to a member of the hospital staff who offers help beyond the physical aspects of medical treatment: the chaplain. With growing recognition of the role of spirituality in health care, hospital … Read More
December 10, 2013
Hospitals that serve one in six Americans adhere to Catholic doctrine that threatens the lives of patients, the American Civil Liberties Union claims in a court case filed on behalf of a Michigan woman. The ACLU is suing the U.S. … Read More
December 3, 2013
The lawsuit comes in the midst of a wave of high-profile mergers between Catholic hospitals and secular systems. The partnerships have raised questions about how care will be delivered at institutions guided by religious directives, particularly in rural areas like … Read More
October 29, 2013
Pediatricians and child abuse agencies should step in when parents’ religious beliefs keep kids from getting necessary medical care, doctors said Monday. In a policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics also said states should repeal any … Read More
October 3, 2013
Saudi Arabia is beefing up its surveillance of a deadly coronavirus in advance of Muslims’ annual pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, which is set to begin on 13 October. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS) has infected 135 people, killing … Read More
September 23, 2013
Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today’s “throw-away culture” and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them. Francis … Read More
September 20, 2013
Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality and become more merciful or risk the collapse of its entire moral edifice “like a house of cards”. In a dramatically blunt … Read More
August 13, 2013
As the University of Texas prepares to open its medical school in Austin in 2016, it is negotiating the delicate agreements between public university and the religiously-affiliated healthcare provider who will train its doctors. (Modern Health Care)
