By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Getting a flu shot is more important than ever this year as experts say virtually all the flu strains occurring in the United States this season are resistant to the leading antiviral drug Tamiflu. Scientists and health officials are trying to figure out why.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is accusing Vatican Cardinal Renato Martino of “Hamas propaganda” after the Cardinal referred to conditions in Gaza as resembling “a big concentration camp.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are investing $2 million dollars in cell phone “soap operas” that promote condom use.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, one of the most influential religious leaders in the United States died at 10:00 a.m. this morning at the age of seventy-two.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A co-inventor of the birth control pill, Austrian chemist Carl Djerassi, now says his creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion of "The World Day of Missionary Childhood," which is celebrated on the Feast of the Epiphany, to speak out against the deplorable surge of child kidnappings in the Democratic Republic of Congo that have seen scores of children stolen from their homes and forced to become child soldiers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate have introduced the Broadcaster’s Freedom Act, a bill intended to strip the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its authority to reinstitute the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” by codifying the status quo and protecting free speech.
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By Susan Brinkmann
Staff Writer
Healthcare workers at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (UWHC) have alerted attorneys to secret plans by the organization to open a late-term abortion facility in which they would be forced to participate.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A baby born in England at 23 weeks has survived and finally come home from the hospital. Her mother is now calling British abortion laws “outdated” because they are based on the notion that children born at less than 24 weeks cannot survive outside the womb.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As part of a government drive to cut teenage pregnancy, sexual health clinics in secondary schools in England are now dispensing the “morning after pill” without parental permission to girls as young as 11 years old.
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