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Editorial Issue 64

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In Issues 62 and 63, I have discussed the considerable impact that individuals, clinicians and researchers can exert upon therapeutic healthcare progress and hence upon all our liv...

Editorial Issue 67

by Sandra Goodman PhD

How to find a qualified, competent complementary practitioner ought to be a straight forward enough process; however, as you can deduce from Sarah Noble's article of that title (se...

Editorial Issue 70

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Many features herein concern healing - transformation, healing with music and meditation and healing from cancer.

Editorial Issue 73

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In my review of Petrene Soames' book The Essence of Self-Healing, I quipped that she has more courage than I to predict that serious illnesses such as cancer, stroke and Alzheimer'...

Editorial Issue 76

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As individuals, it is difficult, yet vital, to remind ourselves of the absolute importance of doing our utmost to protect and nurture our own health. Especially so today, amidst th...

Editorial Issue 79

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Spending as much time as I do reading research, journals and books from all areas of health, the amount of vigorous, even vicious disagreement among top experts in every field neve...

Editorial Issue 82

by Sandra Goodman PhD

"Have you seen the Breast Cancer Treatment section in this Sunday's The Observer?", my partner asked. As he handed me the 32-page supplement on 29 September, I was hoping to see a ...

Editorial Issue 85

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Like many others, I used some of the so-called holiday period as an opportunity to catch up with big projects that I had been putting off due to the manic load of everyday work tas...

Editorial Issue 88

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There are few people I speak with who don't consider being afflicted and disabled by a stroke to be one of their worst nightmares. In that momentary cerebral accident, lives change...

Editorial Issue 56

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In a recent BBC2 documentary exploring the UK's poor cancer survival rate, members of a UK Parliamentary scientific select committee were seen visiting the USA's National Cancer In...

Editorial Issue 59

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I place a great deal of importance upon the integrity and reliability of the source of critical information, particularly when it may impact upon my health and wellbeing.

Editorial Issue 62

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The origins of numerous effective therapies and treatments often arise from the desperate search for relief of sufferers of devastating illnesses. In this age of evidence-based med...

Editorial Issue 65

by Sandra Goodman PhD

We in the UK have been forced to witness with numbing incredulity the slaughter of millions of healthy livestock and other animals, due to apparent scientific incompetence and bure...

Editorial Issue 68

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As individuals, how we choose to support causes, complementary medicine in particular, may literally save our lives.As eloquently discussed by Dorothy Rowe Ph.D., we typically take...

Editorial Issue 71

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Robert Charman (see Letters) has got it absolutely right. Looking at the recent BBC1 series Living with Cancer, Monday evenings at 10.35pm, one might get the impression that all th...

Editorial Issue 74

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The current healthcare system is light years from being integrated, vis à vis Orthodox and Complementary disciplines. This can be exemplified by reading comments from some of the l...

Editorial Issue 77

by Sandra Goodman PhD

When I recently received The British Association of Flower Essences Producers' newsletter advising that Flower Essences may come under the aegis of the Traditional Herbal Medicines...

Editorial Issue 80

by Sandra Goodman PhD

When I originally started Positive Health some nine years ago, my motivation was to provide authoritative clinical and research information about complementary medicine to people w...

Editorial Issue 83

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The old saying 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose' is a time-honoured truism with both positive and negative attributes.

Editorial Issue 86

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I get extremely irritated, in fact infuriated, at the constant derisory carping and criticism about complementary therapies appearing in the print, electronic and broadcast media.<...