Modern medical power-brokers—the self-proclaimed gatekeepers on health—maintain their political prestige as experts in the same way their mercury-arsenic-and-strychnine-prescribing forefathers did in the 1800s: by ignoring and bashing the contemporary research of alternative therapists whose discoveries are now common knowledge.

What can free our society from a porno-prudish view of the body is what has already liberated most health-care workers: a frank, natural, non-sexual display of the divine glory and creative goodness in the unclad temple of God's image.

I studied naturopathic medicine in college and there was nothing in my studies that referred to radon as a therapy. It's been interesting to see ionizing radiation used as a treatment.

Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.

The D.C. city council's price control bill is bad medicine for every District resident who relies on prescription drugs. If local governments unilaterally cap medicine prices based on artificially low foreign prices, companies may be forced to make difficult decisions about the scope and type of research and development investments, keeping new medicines in the laboratory longer and out of the neighborhood pharmacy.

Prescription drugs are an integral part of medicine today, they ought to be an integral part of Medicare, period,