March 4, 2016
(The Atlantic) – When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, it reasoned that women have a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. What it left open, though, is “issue of … Read More
March 4, 2016
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 374, no. 8, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques—Implications for the Clinical Community” by M.J. Falk, A. Decherney, and J.P. Kahn “Pharmaceutical Policy Reform—Balancing Affordability with Incentives for … Read More
March 3, 2016
(CBC) – Decades after Ottawa legalized abortion, few hospitals with historic Catholic ties perform them — raising the question of whether the courts will force publicly funded health institutions to offer physician-assisted suicide when it becomes legal in Canada. A … Read More
February 18, 2016
(ABC News) – With the mosquito-borne Zika virus continuing to spread through Central and South America, Pope Francis said today that contraception could be seen as “the lesser of two evils” if women are concerned about having children with the … Read More
February 4, 2016
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 42, no. 2, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Conscientious Objection and Healthcare in the UK: Why Tribunals Are Not the Answer” by Christopher Cowley “Not So New Directions in the Law of … Read More
February 3, 2016
Journal of Genetic Counseling (vol. 25, no. 1, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Challenges of Pre- and Post-Test Counseling for Orthodox Jewish Individuals in the Premarital Phase” by E. Rose, et al. “Experiences of Women Who Underwent … Read More
January 29, 2016
(MIT Technology Review) – A Spanish scientist working at the Salk Institute in California told Scientific American that Pope Francis personally blessed his cutting edge research to mix human cells into animal bodies. Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a prominent stem-cell … Read More
January 18, 2016
(ABC News) – Ordering a Catholic hospital in California to perform a tubal ligation sterilization procedure on a woman would violate its religious freedom, a San Francisco judge ruled Thursday. “Religious-based hospitals have an enshrined place in American history and … Read More
January 13, 2016
(Washington Post) – Belgium is embroiled in a religious freedom controversy after the new head of the country’s Roman Catholic Church demanded that faith-run hospitals and nursing homes have the right to refuse euthanasia to patients. A 2002 law decriminalized … Read More
January 13, 2016
(Pharmacy Times) – A Washington State pharmacy and 2 pharmacists continue to fight a law prohibiting the state’s pharmacists from using religious objections to refuse to dispense emergency contraceptives. Rhonda Mesler and Margo Thelen, the 2 pharmacists objecting to the … Read More
December 11, 2015
(Washington Post) – The first study to examine religious identity and workplace discrimination against American Muslim doctors found that nearly half felt more scrutiny at work compared to their peers, and nearly one in four said they experienced religious discrimination … Read More
November 13, 2015
Christian Journal for Global Health (vol. 2, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Rehabilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries for Adult Acquired Disability: Challenges Posed by Rapidity of Health System Change and Position on … Read More
November 11, 2015
Public Health Nursing (vol. 32, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Impact of Nurses of Neglected Tropical Disease Management” by Jane Blood-Siegfried, et al. “Should Home-Based Contraceptive Dispensing Become a Routine Part of Public Health Nurse … Read More
November 11, 2015
Christian Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What is Christian About Christian Bioethics Revisited” by Ryan R. Nash “Bioethics, the Gospel, and Political Engagement” by Lisa Sowle Cahill “The Arc of the Moral … Read More
November 11, 2015
Health & Social Work (vol. 40, no. 4, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “‘When Things Are Really Complicated, We Call the Social Worker’: Post-Hip-Fracture Care Transitions for Older People” by Joanie Sims-Gould, et al. “Qualitative Study: Exploring the … Read More
September 9, 2015
(New Scientist) – This month 2 million Muslims are expected to converge on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the Hajj. The MERS virus is way ahead of them, prompting concerns that pilgrims may catch and spread the disease. MERS emerged in … Read More
September 2, 2015
(BBC) – Pope Francis is making it easier for women and doctors to seek forgiveness for abortion, by allowing all priests to forgive it. In Catholicism, abortion is viewed as such a grave sin that it can punished with excommunication. … Read More
September 1, 2015
(Time) – Religion and spirituality are not common topics of discussion in intensive care units (ICUs), and doctors often go out of their way to avoid them—even though religion is often very important to patients and their medical surrogates during … Read More
August 19, 2015
Christian Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Bioethics and the family: Family building in the Twenty-First Century” by Ana S. Iltis and Mark J. Cherry “Religious beliefs and reproductive counseling practices in … Read More
August 19, 2015
Journal of Moral Theology (vol. 4, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Roman Catholic teaching on international debt: Toward a new methodology for Catholic social ethics and moral theology” by M. Therese Lysaught “Grace is … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – Widespread blood transfusion, by contrast, is less than a century old. Yet it, too, was popularly adopted without rigorous testing of when, exactly, it benefitted patients. Just as early practitioners accepted the virtues of draining blood … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – After the war, donated blood became an integral part of Western medicine. Advances in care, including open-heart surgery, artificial kidney replacements, and trauma work “consumed huge amounts of blood,” Starr writes. Doctors also transfused patients to … Read More
August 17, 2015
(The New Yorker) – Though Witnesses accept virtually all other medical interventions, the stricture against transfusion can affect their care. Patients may need donor blood when they lose their own blood rapidly, as a result of a car crash or … Read More
August 13, 2015
(New York Times) – Religion was never discussed in my medical training. In medical school, a priest maintained a small lounge, providing coffee and tea, where students could sometimes drop in to get coffee, but that was wholly optional, and … Read More
July 23, 2015
(Sci Dev Net) – Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet. The … Read More
