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August 2016

August 17, 2016

Doctors push back against assisted suicide

Vermont has a law allowing for physician-assisted suicide. State agencies are interpreting the law so...

August 16, 2016

The Zika mystery & Zika abortions

Some women who get Zika have babies with severe birth defects, but some don't. In...

August 08, 2016

A pig with a human brain

The ethical issues involved in combining human DNA with animal DNA are so great--and so...

August 04, 2016

Empiricism, common sense, and flossing

First we were told that we should avoid food that is high in cholesterol; then...

August 03, 2016

Update on the Zika plague

The Center for Disease Control has issued a travel advisory warning people to stay away from...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

The brain is NOT a computer

Brain researcher Robert Epstein explains that, contrary to what we keep hearing, the brain is...

May 13, 2016

Obamacare funding ruled unconstitutional

A federal judge has ruled that the mechanism for subsidizing insurance companies under Obamacare violates...

May 13, 2016

Human embryo grown outside the womb for 13 days

Scientists have set a new record in keeping a human embryo--that is to say, a...

May 06, 2016

The third leading cause of death: medical errors

Research has found that medical errors--doctors' mistakes, communication mix-ups, and hospital-borne infections--are now the third leading...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Exemptions for corporations, but not religious groups

The federal government insists that the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups...

March 23, 2016

Supreme Court to rule on sinning vs. causing others to sin

Tomorrow the short-handed Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case brought by the Little...

March 22, 2016

A medical statement about gender confusion in children

The American College of Pediatricians, a conservative medical organization, has issued a statement entitled Gender...

March 11, 2016

All Canada doctors & nurses must kill patients on demand

Canada is implementing its new euthanasia policy with new guidelines that will require doctors and...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

Zika, the new global plague

Zika is a virus that, in 80% of the cases, produces no symptoms. But if...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Religious hospitals may refuse to perform procedures against their beliefs

In what may be an important precedent, a California court ruled against a woman who...

January 07, 2016

“I’ve heard a lot about purple”

We've blogged about the new technology that allows people who are color-blind to see in...

January 06, 2016

Biomedical studies that aren’t reproducible

A key principle of the scientific method is that experiments must be reproducible. That is,...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

The vocation of being an advocate for the dead

An article on the real-life doctor featured in the movie Concussion says quite a bit...

December 09, 2015

The gift of pain

A 39-year-old woman was born with the inability to feel pain. But this rare syndrome...

December 03, 2015

How to calm a crying baby

From How to Instantly Calm a Crying Baby - In The Loop Tips & Advice...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

People who think they are dead

I think a major problem today--one that looms behind other problems, such as sexual immorality...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

She felt she was supposed to have been born blind

I've blogged about the "transabled," people who feel that they should have been born into...

October 02, 2015

Babies are now living before they are legally “viable”

Legally, a fetus is not considered "viable" until 24 weeks, at which time certain protections...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

“Editing” embryos

Researchers are crossing the line into direct "editing" of human embryos, amounting to genetically modifying...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

ACLU gets Catholic hospital to sterlize a woman

The ACLU threatened to sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform a sterilization procedure...

August 12, 2015

Why there is heroin in the heartland

Heroin used to be a plague in the big cities, but today heroin addiction is...

August 03, 2015

Planned Parenthood fights back against defunding

We taxpayers give Planned Parenthood a half-billion dollars a year, something a measure that goes...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The power of feeling what someone else feels

Empathy is an important virtue--"rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep" (Romans...

July 17, 2015

Free sex change operations for 15-year-olds without parental consent

The state of Oregon will now allow adolescents as young as 15 to get a...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare, saying that the language of a passage...