Dr. Weigel’s Diagnosis and Treatment Are Correct
COMMENTARY: Catholic health-care professionals are fighting to restore moral integrity to medicine — but they need reinforcements.
Results from Tag: 'medical ethics'
Disabled Texas Woman Will Not Be Denied Food and Water — for Now — After Judge’s Order
The congregation, under Pope Benedict XVI, clearly affirmed that a person in a vegetative state must be supplied with food and water even if they seem to have no chance of recovery.
Catholic Doctors, Ethicists Criticize Pontifical Academy for Life Book
The authors highlighted lack of understanding of ‘current science’ and specific areas of medicine and recommended that the academy consult with Catholic medical associations to assist with future texts that provide moral guidance on Catholic medical practice and ethics issues.
Catholic Bioethicists Warn: UK Birth of ‘Three-Parent Baby’ Comes at High Moral Cost
Though these experts welcomed the birth of the baby, they warned that the new technique destroys other newly conceived embryos in the process of inserting healthy genetic material to address a genetic flaw in a mother’s eggs. In contrast, gene therapy is a promising path for ethical research.
Federal Judge Rules: Maryland Catholic Hospital Discriminated by Denying Transgender Surgery
A federal judge has ruled against a Catholic-founded hospital in Maryland, contending that it discriminated in refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a woman who was pursuing a purported gender transition.
Catholic Teaching on Health Care Is Part of God’s Gift of Love to the World
Part II: Patients and health-care professionals alike can be well-served by a deeper understanding of natural-law principles and especially double-effect theory.
Catholic Moral Tradition Shines Light on Hard Questions About Abortion
Part I: Catholic medical ethicists explain the Catholic tradition of double-effect theory and explore its ongoing impact on medicine and legislation.
Proposed Change to Brain Death Laws Draws Criticism from Some Doctors, Ethicists
Catholic doctors and ethicists today largely echo St. John Paul II in stating that brain death, when properly diagnosed, is not a “kind” of death; it is simply death, period.
What Every Catholic Should Know About Brain Death
An estimated 42 people are declared brain dead throughout the U.S. every day.
Ethicists Sound Alarm After Creation of Monkey Embryos Containing Human Cells
An article published April 15 in the journal Cell described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells.
