In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Doctor Karen MacDonald, a physician in an emergency department, shares how the spiritual care people receive from Catholic clergy and religious is vital for patients and their family, in life and in death. Not only
The fear, sickness, death, mourning and economic impacts of COVID-19 should make people who are relatively well off and have access to health care think about "what it means to be vulnerable and live in precariousness on a daily basis," Pope Francis
Two Catholic archbishops Sept. 17 objected to two House committees advancing portions of the $3.5 trillion budget bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, with language that funds abortions being added to wording they support to improve access to affordable health
In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so.
In the case, California v. Texas, the plaintiffs --
The Women's Health Protection Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House June 8 "would invalidate nearly all existing state limitations on abortion," said Jennifer Popik, director of federal legislation for National Right to Life.
"This legislation would also prohibit states
The Biden administration has filed an appeal April 20 of a Jan. 19 federal court's ruling to block an Affordable Care Act provision barring discrimination by health insurers and providers against transgender people.
The regulation was issued in 2016 by the U.S. Department
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Dr. Thomas McGovern, who serves on the national board of the Catholic Medical Association, writes that the progress the United States is seeing with its vaccination program is a cause for celebration and has
Ensuring equal access to health care, especially for the less fortunate, can only be achieved through a "renewed moral commitment by the countries with the greatest resources to the countries most in need," Cardinal Peter Turkson said.
In a message marking World Health
Jesuit-run Creighton University's new $100 million, 180,000-square-foot health sciences campus in Phoenix, scheduled to open for classes this fall, is welcome news not only to patients but to those who plan a career in medicine.
Attorneys for doctors and hospitals argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit March 3 that they shouldn't be forced to perform gender-transition surgeries required under the Affordable Care Act, stressing this is an issue of conscience.
The case focuses