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Muslim medical students get picky   Daniel Foggo and Abul Taher   Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity. A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of...

Never has the onslaught against alternative therapies been so virulent. If we do not act now, together and consistently, we will lose access to the therapies we depend on to maintain and improve our health. The goal of the Freedom of Health Foundation is to fight repression of medical freedom with legal, legislative, and educational tactics. When special interests, both here and abroad, try to limit access to nutritional supplements, we will be on the frontline. When practitioners of alternative medicine are persecuted, we will defend them. When the FDA denies access to an innovative therapy to a patient seeking...