Positive Health Online

Editorial Issue 100

by Sandra Goodman PhD

How should we practise medicine? At first glance, this might seem as daft a question as How long is a piece of string? Or How do I love thee, let me count the ways. You might imagi...

Editorial Issue 99

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As professional health practitioners and serious users of complementary medicine, I imagine that the majority of Positive Health readers may not respond well to massively overblown...

Editorial Issue 98

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I have never been comfortable with the dichotomies and schisms semantically describing various approaches to healthcare. Why do we have to continually divide and categorize types o...

Editorial Issue 97

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I have a serious issue around trusting health experts. Your life and heath, and mine, may depend upon not trusting the received wisdom of conventional experts. There are a number o...

Editorial Issue 96

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Regular readers of Positive Health know that I constantly harangue the medical establishment, government regulatory bodies and the media regarding the widespread scandalous ignoran...

Editorial Issue 95

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I am somewhat amazed, and exceedingly proud to announce that Positive Health is now 10 years old and about to enter its second decade of publication.

Editorial Issue 90

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In over nine years of publishing Positive Health, I had never before been telephoned directly by the Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency (MHRA), previously called the Medicines ...

Editorial Issue 91

by Sandra Goodman PhD

David Walker's story (see pages 35-38) is both an inspiring and hideous example of the ongoing criminal suppression, by (mainly US) governments, law enforcement agencies such as th...

Editorial Issue 92

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I used to think that nutritional approaches for cancer treatment were the only fields marginalized vis à vis conventional medical orthodoxy. However, it is far, far worse; all 'com...

Editorial Issue 93

by Sandra Goodman PhD

My blood is boiling, again. While in the shower this morning, I had been mentally formulating what I wished to say in the Editorial of this Issue.

Editorial Issue 94

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Thinking 'outside of the box' is probably one of the most crucial qualities required by health practitioners. Alas, the world of medicine, and, indeed, the greater world of politic...

Editorial Issue 17

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In my days as a research scientist, I used to think that the way to broaden medical treatment methods was to do rigorous research and prove that a certain treatment or regime has a...

Editorial Issue 16

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There are a staggering array of therapies under the wide umbrella of complementary medicine and it is difficult, if not impossible for any one person to know, understand, or even r...

Editorial Issue 15

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There is an incredible diversity of professional opinion and approach even amongst practitioners of the same complementary therapies. This applies across virtually all disciplines....

Editorial Issue 14

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The international research databases, clinicians' notes, health books and magazines abound with the excellent therapeutic progress being made with complementary therapies. To read ...

Editorial Issue 13

by Sandra Goodman PhD

What happens at the interface of mind and body is arguably one of the most exciting and profound areas of health and life today, as it has been through the millennia. Not by accide...

Editorial Issue 12

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There are so many modalities by which people can be treated and healed. This is a central truism emerging in this issue, so elegantly put by Leon Chaitow in his column (page 19) an...

Editorial Issue 11

by Sandra Goodman PhD

One of the many reasons that complementary medicine seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes to money, recognition and validation, is that by espousing to care for the...

Editorial Issue 10

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Complementary Medicine appears to be making significant progress - growing popularity with the public, increased albeit sometimes begrudging acceptance by the medical profession,...

Editorial Issue 27

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Can you remember those times in your life when you have suffered a severe disappointment – when the penny finally dropped that someone close to you, or whom you trusted, had betray...