
BMA strike ballot – how should Christian doctors respond?
Today the BMA has begun to ballot members on whether to take industrial action over government pension…

New warnings on risks of popular infertility treatments
Hot on the heels of warnings last week about one in ten babies suffering birth defects after ICSI (intracytoplasmic…

Educating women is the key to lowering maternal mortality
The fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) put forward by the United Nations (MDG-5) proposes to reduce…

Phyllis Bowman, campaigner who led struggle against abortion and euthanasia, dies aged 85
The veteran British pro-life campaigner Phyllis Bowman has died aged 85.
Bowman, who was described…

New GMC & Stonewall leaflet on getting ‘discriminatory’ doctors struck off
The General Medical Council, the official regulatory body for doctors, has published a leaflet in conjunction…

A week with two good prayers and one bad one
I’ve just returned from a fantastic CMF National Conference at Swanwick on the theme 'heroes of faith'.…

Above all, the NHS needs an ‘avalanche of compassion’
At this year’s Rendle Short Lecture during the CMF National Conference, Dr Tim Lyttle (a GP and social…

Remembering Millie
Radio 4 recently broadcast a touching story on the life of a disabled child. The program revealed…

Disagreement amongst Christians is normal and unity does not mean uniformity
My father was a Congregationalist and my mother Anglican and after leaving home my brother joined the…