General Healthcare Challenges

Interviews

• David Cosio, PhD, ABPP

Articles/Commentaries

• Maintenance of Certification (MOC)—Benefit vs Burden by Dipesh Uprety, MD and Howard “Jack” West, MD JAMA September 22, 2023

• The Protein Structure Prediction Revolution and Its Implications for Medicine. 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award by John Jumper, PhD and Demis Hassabis, PhD JAMA September 21, 2023

• Optical Coherence Tomography—History, Evolution, and Future Prospects2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award by James G. Fujimoto, PhD ,; Eric A. Swanson, MS, and David Huang, MD, PhD JAMA September 21, 2023

• Cardinal Turkson: Universal health coverage needed to build healthier world. In his message to mark World Health Day, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Human Integral Development, Cardinal Peter Turkson, highlights the importance of building more equitable and more just health systems. by Vatican News

• Christ and His Call to Heal the Sick by Mission Doctors Association

• Doctors in South Korea call for flu vaccinations to be paused after 25 deaths by Reuters

• Haddad: Catholic health care committed to ‘loving care’ of COVID-19 patients by Julie Asher Catholic News Service/Crux

• I'm providing health care, and prayer, during COVID-19 by Sister Mary Catherine RedmondThe Pilot

• Praying for the sick by Philip Shano, SJ igNation

• Call to end Affordable Care Act is ‘immoral,’ says C.H.A. president by Carol Zimmermann  Catholic News Service/America

• Philippine health officials declare measles outbreak following scores of deaths. by Joe Torres UCANews.com

• Flu epidemic kills 1,100 in France but worse to come by The Local

• For Sister Carol Keehan, faith and health care go together by Carl Zimmermann Catholic News Service/Crux

• Vatican underlines support of universal health care coverage by Catholic News Service/America

• Vatican and Muslim experts unite to defend palliative healthcare by Claire Giangravè Crux/Angelus

• Brain implant lets paralyzed people turn thoughts into text by Rachel England Engadget

• The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life by Jamieson Webster NCR Daily

• 100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it by Brian Resnick Pocket

• What Parents Need to Know about Enterovirus D68 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• How the 465-year-old arm of St. Francis Xavier brought faith and healing to Canada by John O’Brien, S.J.  America

• Canadian man says he asked for home care, was offered assisted suicide by Catholic News Agency

• Day-Tripping To The Dispensary: Seniors In Pain Hop Aboard The Canna-Bus by Michelle Sherman Thriver News

• Catholic hospitals come under fire in debate over conscience rights by Charles C. Camosy Crux

• Q & A with Sr. Mary Jean Ryan on running a health care system for 25 years by Dan Stockman Global Sisters Report

• How drugmakers sway states to profit off of Medicaid by Liz Essley WhyteJoe YerardiAlison Fitzgerald Kodjak   The Center for Public Integrity

• The 7,150 nuns who fought against Trumpcare by E.J. Dionne Jr.   The Washington Post

• Is affordable health care possible? by Karen Sue Smith   America

• Sister Carol Keehan: G.O.P. health care plan ‘cannot be fixed by Kevin Clarke  America

• Health care for all isn't optional, Vatican tells UN by Staff TheBostonPilot,com

• Catholic leaders react to House bill to repeal, replace health by CNS

• Need for Catholic health care has never been greater, says cardinal by Tim Puet Catholic Herald

• Virtual reality: An answer to the pope's call for creativity in medicine? by Elise Harris   CNA/EWTN News

• “Punishing the Patient”: Ensuring Access to Pain Treatment in Guatemala by Human Rights Watch index this by date

• Women in Clinical Trials by U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Releases New Edition of Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services

• Everyone must have affordable health care, Vatican official says by Carol Glatz Catholic News Service