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  1. Editorial Issue 33

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Cancer survival statistics make for sober reading, especially these days when the media are always ready to announce "breakthroughs" or "miracle cures". Most intelligent people who...

  2. Editorial Issue 36

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    What attributes make for a good practitioner, and, perhaps, more importantly, which sort of practitioner is right for you and your particular health problem? These fundamental ques...

  3. Editorial Issue 39

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Nothing infuriates me more than hearing some "expert" pontificating about the lack of research or lack of proof regarding the therapeutic efficacy of complementary medicine.

  4. Editorial Issue 42

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Where do you go to sort out your health problems? With such an incredible array of hugely diverse therapeutic approaches – from Healing, Reiki, Homoeopathy, Herbs, Nutrition, to Bo...

  5. Editorial Issue 45

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Don't we tend to pride ourselves with being well-informed and knowledgeable? With all the high-tech gizmos, internet and network communications available, don't we congratulate our...

  6. Editorial Issue 48

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    I sometimes fantasise (as I know many of us do) about what it would be like to live in another era, say before electricity, the car, radio, television, or the telephone. In fact, t...

  7. Editorial Issue 25

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    It seems the notion that having a positive attitude toward the therapy you are currently receiving will enhance its therapeutic effect has become a perceived truism.

  8. Editorial Issue 28

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    There is a clichéd and outmoded notion that as we grow older we get more rigid in our beliefs and ways of viewing the world. As a teenager I enthusiastically embraced the slogan th...

  9. Editorial Issue 31

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Complementary Medicine hasn't even achieved relegation status, because it hasn't yet officially joined the healthcare system league. While healthcare priorities entail high-tech, h...

  10. Editorial Issue 34

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Happiness and Depression have become two of the most common, everyday words we bandy about. Yet, whereas talking, writing and giving seminars about how to achieve happiness can be ...

  11. Editorial Issue 37

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    During my lifetime, and particularly during the past 15 years, I have been at the receiving end of frankly outrageous diagnoses from a variety of practitioners, some of them fairly...

  12. Editorial Issue 40

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Penny Brohn, internationally renowned campaigner for holistic cancer treatment and co-founder of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, died late last year following a 15-year battle with...

  13. Editorial Issue 43

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Very recently, a lovely woman known to all of us at Positive Health arrived in tears, with the devastating news that her 46-year old daughter had just been diagnosed with breast ca...

  14. Editorial Issue 46

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    It has been exciting to be able to review two outstanding books in this issue (please see pages 5-8), both documenting how nutrition can radically improve our health and even allev...

  15. Editorial Issue 49

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    While there is no shortage of acceptable practitioners around, when I have a health problem to sort out, I have always found it difficult to locate that really superb therapist who...

  16. Editorial Issue 51

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    I get really furious when so-called experts pronounce utter nonsense in an authoritative way to their captive audience on radio or television. So, imagine my reaction while listeni...

  17. Editorial Issue 52

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    You may have seen the recent headlines claiming that vitamin C causes clogged arteries and may therefore be a risk to heart disease. You may wonder what I, as an author of a book o...

  18. Editorial Issue 18

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Nearly 40 years ago, a young child critically ill with meningitis, I lay close to death in a Montreal hospital. Memories of the attempts of the doctors to diminish the pain of spin...

  19. Editorial Issue 29

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    Shakespeare may have said that music has charms to soothe the savage breast, but this savage breast is not soothed by the enormous amount of misinformation about, especially regard...

  20. Editorial Issue 32

    by Sandra Goodman PhD

    If you were at high risk of getting breast cancer what would you do? Suppose that you were in your early 30s, and a DNA test showed that you had inherited a gene with an 80% probab...

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