A new book offers continuing critical reflection on the ministry of Catholic health care.

The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.

Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In "Beautiful Boy" and "Ben is Back" they try.

In their written responses, several readers invoked the Hippocratic Oath, from which the phrase “first do no harm” is derived.

The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.

The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.

We are called to a life of humble service and radical reliance on God but not to perfection, writes Tom Catena.

These traditional, indigenous birth practices should never have been erased in the first place.

Income is perhaps the unifying indicator of health care in crisis across all the margins of America—a reliable predictor of poor health outcomes from inadequate treatment for common illnesses—leading to the final measure of all: substantially lower life expectancy.

Kate Bowler talks with the hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura and Zac Davis, and explains what her cancer diagnosis taught her about American Christianity and more.

The solution to the “current opioid crisis is one that involves the whole person.”