When a child is hungry enough, a child will eat. Generations of pediatricians have attempted to reassure the parents of fussy eaters with this conventional wisdom.

When Sr. Peter Lillian DiMaria, O CARM, got the call from her motherhouse in 1996 to become the director of the Avila Institute of Gerontology, she almost wished she could forget her vow of obedience.

The addicts stumble in from the gritty alleys of Vancouver's Eastside. In their pockets are doses of the narcotics that drive their lives.

Ethicists at CHA and the National Catholic Bioethics Center are taking issue with an article in the American Journal of Public Health that they say demonstrates a lack of knowledge about how medical practices at Catholic institutions are guided by Catholic moral principles.

Jewish people visiting patients at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., now have access to a hospitality suite tailored to their religious needs.

The Social Security Administration has developed a campaign timed to Mother's Day to alert seniors to ways they can save money on their Medicare prescription drug plan.

In order to build public support for health system reform in the U.S., advocates of change must understand how the public views human rights, and they should use language that people can identify with.

As Catholic Health World went to press, Covenant Health System of Lubbock, Texas, was poised to complete a five-year, $50 million project to restructure the way it delivers services at its two Lubbock campuses.

Pope Benedict XVI has named a Polish bishop who worked 19 years at the Vatican's doctrinal congregation as the new head of the Pontifical Council for Healthcare Ministry.

Eggshells and carrot peels, apple cores and orange rinds — each week, the cooks at Youville Place Assisted Living in Lexington, Mass., stuff compost bins full of food scraps.

St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading, Pa., was one of over 100 ministry member sites participating in National Healthcare Decisions Day, April 16.

With a little help from some assistive technology and their troop leaders, a group of Girl Scouts with special medical needs recently prepared dinner and dessert for 90 homeless people.

Franciscan Health System of Tacoma, Wash., has opened a $160 million, 80-bed hospital in Gig Harbor, a maritime community located in Washington's Key Peninsula area.

Cancer patients and survivors in Santa Maria, Calif., have found an effective but unusual set of tools to help with their recovery: golf clubs, balls and tees.

"Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America" is not an exhibit about faith, though an unyielding trust in God gave Catholic sisters the strength to serve in the American wilderness, urban slums and war-torn nations.