Rifqa Bary, the Muslim convert to Christianity who said she fled her Ohio home because she feared her parents would kill her for abandoning their faith, is refusing chemotherapy to treat her uterine ...

16-year-old allegedly rejected medical treatment; case highlights faith healing. Oct. 7, 2008— -- The prosecution of an Oregon couple who allegedly tried to heal their dying son with prayer has ...

Scientific research has shown a link between faith and healing. Those who believe in something larger than themselves heal more often, have easier recoveries, and get well more quickly. Some of the ...

In my previous post, I discussed whether antidepressants work mainly via suggestion, or the placebo effect. A placebo resembles faith healing. Yet faith healing is usually considered more a matter of ...

Two-year-old Kent Schaible died of bacterial pneumonia in 2009. His parents, Herbert and Catherine Schaible of Philadelphia, chose not to take Kent to a doctor, relying instead on faith healing, ...

I like to think out loud. Or write out loud. But in any case, express things in the open as a way of organizing my thoughts. I was invited to present at a very unique gathering called the "Don't Block ...

Linda Martin grew up with death. As a child, she would see friends at church one week and then never again, she said. When the community’s elders gathered at someone’s home, she assumed the worst: ...

Parents want charges dropped in faith healing death of their toddler daughter. Dec. 10, 2008— -- A Clackamas County, Ore., couple accused of letting their infant daughter die by relying on prayer ...

Three experts–the Rev. George Handzo, a chaplain with the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York City; Dr. Andrew Newberg, a radiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Richard ...

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up to an oxygen tank, the man, an ...