Sick woman who went to Lourdes to cure cerebral palsy returns with two broken legs A disabled woman went on a healing pilgrimage to Lourdes – and returned with broken legs. The family of cerebral palsy sufferer Patricia Mitchell have launched legal action against the organisers of the trip after she fell 4ft from a [...]

Family Asks Doctors To Wait For Prayers To Work FORT WORTH — A North Texas family is racing to stop a hospital from amputating a patient’s foot, saying the procedure violates their religious rights. The situation is now so tense that Angela Wright’s husband has been barred from the hospital where she is being treated. [...]

Lets all say it together: THANKS RELIGION! Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year About 70,000 women die every year and many more suffer harm as a result of unsafe abortions in countries with restrictive laws on ending a pregnancy, according to a report. The total number of abortions across the globe has fallen, the influential [...]

ho⋅me⋅op⋅a⋅thy: –noun; the method of treating disease by pseudo-scientific bullshit methods, that often causes a marginally sick person with curable  illnesses or diseases to degrade and become critically or terminally ill; similar to religion  (opposed to LOGIC, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, SANITY, NON-RETARDED-BULLSHIT ). Jail for parents who allowed daughter to die A couple who failed to [...]

Survey: Many believe in divine intervention CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans. An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors “need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle.” More than [...]

California doctors can’t refuse treatment to gays on religious grounds, court rules SAN FRANCISCO — – Doctors may not discriminate against gays and lesbians in medical treatment, even if the procedures being sought conflict with physicians’ religious beliefs, the California Supreme Court decided today. In the second, major gay-rights victory this year, the state high [...]

 Religion out of medicine, a new message for Ontario doctors Ontario physicians could be stripped of their right to exercise religious or moral conscience if a new set of guidelines is accepted by their regulating body next month, critics say. Doctors across Canada are now allowed to opt out of such things as prescribing birth [...]