Health & Spirituality

Should We Allow Jehovah’s Witnesses to Die?

by Michael Cook June 18, 2012

Two cases involving Jehovah Witnesses who refused blood transfusions are in the news: a 22-year-old with sickle cell anaemia who died in the UK and a 4-year-old girl in Australia who lived after a court-ordered transfusion.
In Britain, a 22-year-old…

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Does Forgiveness Make You Healthier?

by Harold G. Koenig, MD June 13, 2012

There is a story about two friends who were walking through the desert, when at some point they had an argument and one friend slapped the other friend in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without…

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While You Were Out, We Took Your Kidneys

by Michael Cook June 5, 2012

There may be an international shortage of kidney donors, but there is no shortage of creative solutions. In the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, Paul E. Morrissey, of Brown University, in Rhode Island, suggests that both kidneys…

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Can Homosexuals Change?

by Gerard van den Aardweg June 4, 2012

Supporters of same-sex marriage notched up a public relations coup earlier this month with the news that Dr Robert Spitzer had recanted his views on the possibility of changing a homosexual orientation. “Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’” was…

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Medicine in the Nanny State

by Ken Connor May 24, 2012

Most people are familiar with the old adage that says “the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”  Originally the refrain of a poem honoring motherhood, today this phrase is perhaps more applicable to the…

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You Know It’s An Election Year When…

by Denyse O'Leary May 21, 2012

You know it’s an election year when psychologists try to explain why people vote as they do. Most of the time, it’s harmless, but recently, a new, nastier tone can be detected. It’s something to keep an eye on because,…

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How Not to Prevent AIDS

by Dale O'Leary April 24, 2012

In July the U.S.will host the International AIDS Conference and there is promising news. The experts are now convinced that treatment is prevention. If those who are infected are identified quickly, treated so that their viral load is lowered, not…

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Is the Catholic Church Green?

by Bill Patenaude April 18, 2012

The subject of global ecology is relatively new within Catholic social teachings, and its increasing prevalence in magisterial documents has many wondering what to think. In a similar way, the term “New Evangelization” seems to be prompting more than a…

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The New Plague of Autism

by Matthew Hanley April 12, 2012

Back in November, the Wall Street Journal featured a prominent article with the following headline: “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams; Scientists Increasingly Link Vehicle Exhaust With Brain-Cell Damage, Higher Rates of Autism”. It was careful to point out that…

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More Food for More People

by Marcus Roberts April 5, 2012

One of the problems of a growing global population that needs to be solved is how do we feed all those extra mouths?  We’ve looked at UN reports on this issue. We’ve also looked at counterviews that actually there is…

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