In talk on euthanasia, pro-life attorney raises concerns over organ donor registry programs February 18, 2025By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News Organ donor registry programs typically offered during state driver’s license renewals might seem like a straight-forward and noble choice but should require greater awareness of pitfalls. They should also offer easier exits from the program.
Catholic research institutions among those concerned about future of NIH funding February 14, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Health Care, News, World News Ongoing uncertainty about funding from the National Institutes of Health could imperil medical research at academic institutions all over the country, including Catholic institutions, multiple sources told OSV News.
A hymn to human dignity February 10, 2025By Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Jubilee 2025 Let’s get started and lend our voices to this symphony through our charity to the sick and the elderly on the World Day of the Sick!
Pro-life groups welcome British cardinal’s attack on ‘irresponsible’ assisted suicide bill February 8, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life groups welcomed comments by the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales bitterly criticizing attempts by government-aligned parliamentarians to rush through a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide.
Welcoming a child opens new world of joy, pope tells health workers February 6, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Health care professionals who help expectant mothers have a vocation that is an ode to life, Pope Francis said.
Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine February 6, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care, Respect Life, The Catholic Difference The willful participation of physicians and other medical professionals in the practice of abortion flatly contradicts the Hippocratic Oath — long the moral framework for sound medical practice — in its original form.
Senators grill RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccine views in HHS confirmation hearings January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Lifesaving HIV/AIDS program’s future uncertain amid stop-and-start foreign aid pause January 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News The future of PEPFAR, the U.S. government’s global effort to combat HIV/AIDS, has been called into question amid a broader pause on foreign assistance and allegations from some Republican lawmakers that the Biden administration improperly allowed some of its funding to be spent on abortions.
The missionary imperative of Catholic health care January 23, 2025By Jason Adkins OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Health Care More Catholics stepping into and supporting Catholic health care professionals who are living the mission, as well as living in solidarity with others through health-sharing organizations, can be antidotes to the increasing depersonalization of health care.
Catholic Health Association ‘shocked and grieved’ by brazen killing of health insurance CEO December 6, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News The Catholic Health Association of the United States said the national organization, along with the Catholic health community, is “shocked and grieved” by the public killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at the hands of a masked gunman.
Hopkins medical sculptor transforms lives, restores hope with facial prostheses December 5, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News He’s worked with patients whose ears were bitten off in dog attacks. He’s seen people whose eyes or ears were lost in accidents or whose flesh was ravaged by aggressive cancers. And he’s helped others born without body parts or who suffered unimaginable gunshot wounds.
Supreme Court hears challenge to Tennessee’s gender transition ban for minors December 4, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 in a case concerning a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
