A new study has uncovered record numbers of Americans on prescription drugs with nearly three-quarters of the population taking at least one drug at any given time.
According to a press release from the Mayo Clinic's Olmsted Medical Center, researchers found that 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two. Twenty percent of patients are on five or more prescription medications, according to the findings these people also need help with prescriptions.
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Even though the mainstream media in the U.S. has chosen to ignore a major gaffe made by the President in Ireland earlier this week, it hasn't squelched the outrage of Catholics who were shocked at his assertion that having Catholic and Protestant schools "encourages division."
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The nation's largest abortion provider, an organization that has a vested interest in the success of the president's vastly unpopular health care plan, has offered the services of its 750 clinics to help sell ObamaCare to the public.
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The mayor of Lourdes, France is pleading for help after the worst flooding in a century left the Shrine of Lourdes in ruins.
The Telegraph is reporting that the Shrine is buried beneath more than a meter of mud with the grotto looking more like a war zone than one of the most beloved Catholic shrines in the world.
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Pope Francis gave the world yet another glimpse into the profound charity of his Franciscan namesake when he gave a teen with Down Syndrome a ride on his Popemobile.
The Associated Press is reporting that 17 year-old Alberto di Tullio from Boiano, Italy got the ride of his life when Pope Francis spotted him in the crowd in St. Peter's Square yesterday.
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In anticipation of the August 1 implementation of the birth control mandate, the bishops of the United States are calling upon the faithful to fight this encroachment on the religious liberty of Americans by spending 14 days in prayer and faith-filled activities meant to remind us of how precious is this fundamental human right.
In a handout prepared by the bishops, the faithful are being called to mark the 2nd Fortnight for Freedom from June 21 to July 4, 2013.
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The Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has issued new texts that include the name of St. Joseph, husband of the virgin Mary, in the main Eucharistic Prayers at Mass.
According to a press release by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Vatican has provided Latin texts of the revised prayers as well as official translations in the major western languages, including English and Spanish.
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The Italian media is reporting that "Vatican sources" say the second miracle needed to canonize Blessed John Paul II has been approved by a board of theologians.
UCANews.com is reporting that the board of theologians of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved the second miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed John Paul II.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that will ban abortion of most pregnancies after 20 weeks.
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Another milestone has been reached in the field of posthumous assisted reproduction (PAR) with the birth of a child in Israel who was born to a surrogate mother who agreed to be artificially inseminated with a dead man's sperm in order to give his grieving parents a grandchild.
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A new study has uncovered record numbers of Americans on prescription drugs with nearly three-quarters of the population taking at least one drug at any given time.
