...By promoting atheism.

Religious Belief Linked to Desire for Aggressive Treatment in Terminal Patients

Terminally ill cancer patients who drew comfort from religion were far more likely to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care in the week before they died than were less religious patients and far more likely to want doctors to do everything ( Read more... )

Who has promised to nationalize health care-more than it already is-allow me to point out once again that when the government gets control of hospitals, there's a horrible temptation to use them to kill people who don't vote for you.

So many maternity units are being closed that soon home births will not just be an option. They will be the only ( Read more... )

As a childfree man, this issue is personally moot, but as an observer of cultural institutions, it's fascinating.

Mommy's little secret

The notion of a woman carrying the child of someone other than her partner is older than the Christmas story itself. No geneticist believes non-paternity to be purely the product of modern immorality; they have been ( Read more... )

Look what my wife just sent me
HONG KONG - Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, animal health experts said. International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect ( Read more... )

So the Schiavo autopsy is in, and of course it confirms what I and a whole bunch of examining doctors were saying all along. "The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," he said. "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
But ( Read more... )