Between Faith and Medicine, How Clear a Line?
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How will South Africa accredit "traditional healers" as legally recognized physicians?
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C'e' possibilita' solo per parlare di testamento biologico
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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Can a terminally ill 7-year-old decide he doesn&#39;t want any more medical treatment? Are pediatricians obligated to tell parents when a teenager has a sexually transmitted disease?
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A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evolution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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What does the Roman Catholic Church really think about the use of condoms to fight AIDS? It seems to depend on who is doing the talking.
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A Christian ministry that helps its members pay one anotherâs medical bills won an important round in its legal battle with insurance regulators.
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Â·  Remedy 'promoted like a religion' by charityÂ·  Patients paying Â£19,000 a year for unproven product
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Doctors may have to take a more active  role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with  terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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Dean H. Hamer has received much criticism for his new book, &quot;The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes.&quot;. Evangelicals reject the idea that faith might be reduced to chemical reactions in the brain.
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A small but growing number of parents around the country are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses
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Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep; medicine dictates long hours without it.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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Many people, including some African-Americans, have long been uneasy with the concept of race-based medicine, in part from fear that it may legitimize less benign ideas about race.
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Often, a patient's âhave you ever ...â question is less a therapeutic riddle to be solved than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.