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
December 18, 2024
(CNN) – A Manhattan grand jury on Tuesday indicted Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to newly released court documents. Mangione faces 11 counts, including one of murder … Read More
December 11, 2024
(CBS News) – In his newest special, which was just released on Netflix, Foxx said that he had experienced a brain bleed that led to a stroke. He said he was in a coma for 20 days, and his condition was … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Karmic justice strikes as Jay Bhattacharya, a dissenting physician who was made a pariah during Covid, is nominated as director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bhattacharya believes “very strongly that I have a purpose … Read More
December 9, 2024
(Christianity Today) – Advocates of the bill say assisted dying is a compassionate response to the excruciating pain experienced by many terminally ill patients. But Christian leaders from a variety of denominations in the UK say that this decision devalues … Read More
December 6, 2024
(Wired) – Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he’s more convinced that the tech giant’s health apps will define the company’s legacy. Apple has created a lot of consumer tools for medical technology. … Read More
December 2, 2024
(The Spectator) – Those all seem to me good, cogent and to my mind compelling arguments for rejecting the proposed bill on Assisted Dying. Yet I can’t help thinking that Christian faith still has something deeper to bring to this … Read More
November 25, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Actress Liz Carr warns that no society can permit assisted suicide without endangering the disabled. When an able-bodied person says something like that about himself, it’s a tragedy, and society seeks to prevent suicide. Plaques offering … Read More
November 20, 2024
(New York Times) – Her fight for disability rights included founding a group called Not Dead Yet, which protested the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and others. Diane Coleman, a fierce advocate for disability rights who took on Dr. Jack … Read More
November 18, 2024
(New York Times) – Earlier this year, my mother ended her life via medical aid in dying, also known as MAID. She had A.L.S., so she was suffering in many ways, and her choice to die in this manner felt … Read More
November 14, 2024
(People) – The ‘Full House’ actor opens up to PEOPLE exclusively about his cancer diagnosis Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The Full House actor, 65, tells PEOPLE exclusively he was diagnosed in October after an … Read More
November 8, 2024
(CNN) – Callahan isn’t afraid of digging into the deep stuff. In fact, he runs toward it. Sometimes, though, he’ll encounter patients who brush him off when they learn he’s a chaplain — they aren’t believers, they tell him, and … Read More
November 7, 2024
(L. A. Times via MSN) – A Los Angeles gynecologist has surrendered his medical license after a state agency accused him of “unprofessional conduct,” including asking a patient about her religious beliefs after she disclosed having had an abortion. Dr. … Read More
November 5, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The Catholic Church still governs the care that can be delivered to millions in those hospitals each year, using religious directives to ban abortions and limit contraceptives, in vitro fertilization, and medical aid in dying. But … Read More
November 5, 2024
(New York Times) – He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera and other diarrhea-inducing diseases. Richard A. Cash, who as a young public-health researcher in South Asia in the … Read More
