Health and Medicine

“Maybe our cultural deficit is going to wind up sinking our country even before the full time consumption of soda does.” Clean Bodies, Filthy Minds

“the new ads are meant to be ‘a wake-up call’ to smokers who may not truly grasp the dangers that still exist…The billboards and print, radio and TV ads show people whose smoking resulted in heart surgery, a tracheotomy, lost limbs or paralysis.”

Two challenges to ObamaCare go before a federal appeals court today, and attorneys in both cases will argue that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

Mark Tooley of The Institute of Religion & Democracy. Questioning the government’s “power to compel”

“Rick Warren pledges to lose 90 pounds during a 52-week church fitness plan, developed by Dr. Oz and two other medical experts, that will launch on Saturday at Saddleback Church.”

Parents Sue Catholic School for Denying Admission to Their Unvaccinated Son

If the White House office of faith-based initiatives is going to be used as propaganda unit, it might as well be shut down.

The Dallas Morning News Religion Blog quotes a Harvard University researcher