Sometimes resuscitating a patient can seem unwarranted or extreme, and people wonder whether it would be okay to fill out a "Do Not Resuscitate" order (DNR) for themselves or for a family member.

In March, 2013, the British paper The Independent ran an article entitled, "Children in gay adoptions at no disadvantage: Research confirms same-sex couples are just as good at parenting as heterosexuals."

In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process.

In 2010 an eminent Chicago IVF doctor left his practice of creating babies in Petri dishes. This is his story.

According to an article published by the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, currently getting a lot of press, it's all right to kill babies.

God invites us to entrust ourselves to him, so that we might be courageous and authentically open to the gift of life he sends us in the midst of the marital embrace.

Indignation over sex-selection shows that abortion is not just a private matter.

The "morning-after" pill, also known as "Plan B," is often provided in hospital emergency rooms to women who have been sexually assaulted.

A Catholic physician once related to me a powerful story about one of his patients, who had just received a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic cancer and had a relatively short time left to live.

It is now all but certain that human embryonic stem cells will not deliver cures to dread diseases. Apologies, anyone?