An American missionary thought God was telling her to treat Ugandan children with medical problems — but a nurse says she "got into a fantasy that she was ordained and special" Marshall Foster/HBO ...

(RNS) — In India, Naylor went from staff doctor to medical director to hospital CEO, treating thousands of patients and delivering a host of babies. (RNS) — The first time she retired, in 2002, Dr.

Dr. Edward Picardi and his wife are part of a team of medical professionals working with the World Medical Mission Samaritan's Purse. A Christian-based non-profit organization, they rely on volunteer ...

Dr. Davida Coady, an activist pediatrician whose passion for public health led her to treat impoverished people in Africa, Central America and Asia before pivoting later in her career to help addicts ...

FLORENCE — MUSC Florence neurosurgeon Curtis Worthington is about to make a longtime dream come true. His luggage is packed and soon Worthington will leave South Carolina on a three-week medical ...

The British doctor established hospitals for Tibetans and called on Chinese Christians to care for the souls of the ethnic group. In the early 20th century, the gates of Tibet were still tightly shut ...

It is common practice among randomized controlled trials and intervention studies to contrast risks and benefits before implementing on a larger scale (Melnyk & Morrison-Beedy, 2012; Sidani, 2014).

“For generations, missionary doctors have healed body and soul in Africa.” The modern-day marriage of health-care and Christian evangelism has a relatively unknown history of success. It has saved the ...

At an isolated mission in the red Arizona desert, 40 miles from the nearest paved road, 85 eminent physicians and surgeons assembled last week at an odd sort of convention. The doctors had come from ...