Positive Health Online

Editorial Issue 53

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As a child growing up in relatively affluent Canada during the 1950s and 60s, some of my most powerful formative influences were the frequent famines and horrors of conflict – the ...

Editorial Issue 54

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The huge gulf which exists between natural-oriented therapies and people who follow more mainstream life practices never ceases to amaze me.

Editorial Issue 57

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Regarding scientific research and other important health information, the most difficult attributes to ferret out, but which are fundamental, underlying the information's reliabili...

Editorial Issue 60

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Over ten years ago, while I was researching the literature for Vitamin C – The Master Nutrient, I came across the despairing cries of doctors who, having discovered even as far bac...

Editorial Issue 63

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In the last issue I discussed how pivotal individual suffering and motivation can be in the development of important health treatments, particularly for chronic or intractable cond...

Editorial Issue 66

by Sandra Goodman PhD

To badly paraphrase former US President Bill Clinton, 'It's the Evidence, Stupid!' Or, should I say, all the massive evidence regarding nutrition and cancer, which is in the public...

Editorial Issue 69

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The rampant commercial attitude of many organizations, even within charities, healthcare and spiritual pursuits, has been a continuing revelation and source of distaste for me. We ...

Editorial Issue 72

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I have been thinking of late that everyone around me and my colleagues seems to be either getting cancer or dying of cancer. In fact, this deeply distressing state of affairs is no...

Editorial Issue 75

by Sandra Goodman PhD

"Sold down the river", "ruled by Brussels", "in breach of the Maastricht Treaty", "the EU wants to deny us the right to look after our own health", "a Humanitarian rights issue", "...

Editorial Issue 78

by Sandra Goodman PhD

That the Mind has a profound effect upon our health, via brain-immune modulation is not a new revelation. In fact, as per the recent review of the literature of psycho-neuro-immuno...

Editorial Issue 81

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Published Research is inspirational for me. In this issue, MacPherson et al reported that of a total of 34,407 acupuncture treatments, there were no serious adverse events reporte...

Editorial Issue 84

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It is a terrible situation when the penny drops and you realize that you can't trust anyone to tell you the 'truth' about life and death health matters. This is certainly the concl...

Editorial Issue 87

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Call me simpleminded, but my idea of optimum healthcare has always been that, depending on the severity and nature of the medical problem, the most appropriate treatment(s) should ...

Editorial Issue 55

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I am continuously shocked by the colossal ignorance of health professionals regarding published research across the many disciplines of Complementary Medicine.

Editorial Issue 58

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It has been utterly frustrating for me to witness the constantly denigrating and sometimes tragic consequences of polarization from within and without complementary medicine.

Editorial Issue 61

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Recently I have been reminiscing, with deep misgivings, about how a significant body of conventional medical research is being subverted away from the good of the public and patien...

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'...