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New research in India suggests that a cheap pill combining six different drugs designed to protect against heart attacks and strokes may become a reality.

Researchers have recently discovered how plants were able to survive the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction that drove the dinosaurs to extinction 65 million years ago. Doubling of DNA is the answer.

A fundraiser by the Calgary Catholic Teachers’ Association to help the anti AIDS campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation was stopped by a Catholic bishop because the Foundation promotes the use of condoms.

A judge ordered a home-schooling mother to send her children back to public school. The Internet is buzzing with accusations. Did the judge actually go too far? How selective reporting can influence public opinion.

Wednesday 25 March, an 81 year old woman has been killed by her daughter in Lourdes, known all over the world as a Catholic pilgrimage destination. She did it because she saw in a vision that she was the devil, evil itself.

Two years ago, Georgia had one of the lowest birth rates of any country on the planet. This has now changed, as a result of an initiative of the patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Georgia, Patriarch Ilia II.

A study has shown that a drug designed to retard the growth of tumours is having the opposite effect when it is administered in low doses.

Christians in the Netherlands are protesting against car registration plates sporting the European Union emblem because they claim it symbolises the Roman Catholic veneration of Jesus’ mother Mary.

A recent study in the UK says that listening to pleasant music may help to restore vision that has been impaired in stroke patients.

A recent article on the relationship between chronic pain and low levels of vitamin D in women, contained such blatant errors that I just had to react.