Medical care

Reflecting on their friendship, Strappetti said the pope felt close to him “perhaps because I saw him as a person before seeing him as a pope.”

The image of Merciful Jesus “came out of Vilnius and went to the whole world,” she said. “But it is not a decoration on a wall. It is a call.”

“Our role as doctors is solely to determine whether a person has been cured, and whether that cure is unexplained,” he explained.

Father Torres said he never expected “this much love from the community, and for Jillian, of course, the huge sacrifice she is making.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dec. 18 announced new regulatory actions that would effectively ban certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who …

Has modern medicine lost its focus on the health of the patient?

The new clinic has two new examination rooms “fitted with state-of-the-art instruments, as well as a new radiology service,” the dicastery said.

Proposed updates to the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services,” or ERDs, were overwhelmingly accepted during the Nov. 12 session of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ …

The document on ethical standards for health care in light of church teaching is an authoritative guidance on moral issues encountered by Catholic health care.

The mRNA vaccines developed to fight COVID-19 during the pandemic “did have a very important impact in decreasing hospitalizations, severe pneumonia and death.”