No to Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:20 PM
14-year-old girl gets HPV vaccine. (Phil. Inquirer)
A Catholic school in England has banned immunization of girls with a vaccine that inoculates against some forms of the virus that causes cervical cancer.
Supporters of vaccinations against human papilloma virus, or HPV, claim they are needed to ensure that girls who become sexually active do not acquire the virus.
But in a letter sent out to the parents of girls at St. Monica’s Catholic... READ MORE
Filed under cancer, education, medicine, vaccines
Faith Can Be Strong Medicine
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:08 PM
The martyrdom of St. Stephen.
A team of Oxford University researchers reports that a Christian faith can help people deal better with pain.
The researchers gave electric shocks to 12 Catholic and 12 atheist volunteers as they studied a picture of the Virgin Mary.
The Catholics reported significantly less pain than the atheists, and brain-scan imagery revealed “neural patterns of pain modulation” had been activated in... READ MORE
Filed under faith, medicine, pain
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