It’s Not the Healthy Who Need A Doctor

Justin Kimball had not even worked a year in health care when he invented medical insurance in 1929. A former teacher, the vice president of Baylor Hospital ...

TV Reporter Diagnosed with Cancer with Viewer’s Help

Victoria Price was working as a reporter for her local NBC affiliate station when she received an urgent suggestion to seek her doctor. But the idea didn’t ...

Physician Moved to Tears by Jesus' Advocacy for Children

In her recent book, Rebecca McLaughlin writes:

Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics and vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania, had good reason ...

Doctor Preaches Stewardship of the Body

Dr. Nick Yphantides used to tell his patients, “Do as I say, not as I do.” That’s because he weighed 470 pounds. But then God spoke to him about being ...

Majority of American Physicians Believe in God

American doctors who say they believe in God: 76 percent.

Doctors who say they believe in some sort of afterlife: 59 percent.

Doctors who say their beliefs ...

Medical Professionals Believe Spiritual Practices Aid Healing

In 1998, Harvard Medical School sponsored a conference called "Spirituality and Healing in Medicine." One report cited the percentages of those who believe ...

Survey Finds Physicians Believe in Miracles

The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City sponsored a national survey of 1,100 ...

Handicapped Boy Humanized by Touch

When Aaron Barg was three months old, a hernia left him in almost constant pain. Finding a surgeon who could repair the hernia was easy, say his parents, ...

Paralyzed Man Opposes Stem-cell Research

In a Time magazine essay, Charles Krauthammer tells why he does not support stem-cell research "from embryos created purposely and wantonly for nothing ...

Physician Describes the Frustrations of Compassion

For decades, Christian physician David Hilfiker has led a medical ministry in Washington, D.C.'s inner city. He writes:

Perhaps the deepest pain involved ...