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Editorial Issue 126

by Sandra Goodman PhD

A longitudinal investigation of 143,325 individuals, initiated in 1992 by the American Cancer Society and followed up in 1997, 1999 and 2001, examined whether people exposed to pes...

Editorial Issue 125

by Sandra Goodman PhD

My father died at the end of 2005, just prior to the New Year. The immediate cause of his death was the inability of his diabetic leg ulcers to heal; these had become infected and ...

Editorial Issue 124

by Sandra Goodman PhD

In the Research Updates of this issue (see page 38 under Antioxidants), K Landmark from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway has published a review of the literature...

Editorial Issue 123

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The media disparages Complementary Medicine almost as quackery and voodoo witchcraft; snide comments in the print and broadcast media are prone to insinuation and scaremongering, p...

Editorial Issue 122

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Please read the inspiring story (see pages 42-43) of how David Longman's daughter Louise (now aged 21) was successfully treated and cured of a benign vascular tumour which had blig...

Editorial Issue 121

by Sandra Goodman PhD

There is a huge volume of published material in all fields of Complementary Medicine. Such is the volume, that finding a place to house all the books and journals which PH receives...

Editorial Issue 120

by Sandra Goodman PhD

My partner suffered 7 hours of violent vomiting, following food poisoning after eating a meat pie purchased from our local Supermarket. Their response was pathetically customer ser...

Editorial Issue 119

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Unbelievably, I was recently emailed a Press Release with the heading "Millions at Risk from Vitamins Overdose". I thought that someone was deliberately winding me up; however, the...

Editorial Issue 118

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The Headlines report that perhaps as many as one million 'mistakes' occur within the NHS and that 2000 patients die every year from a variety of errors, ranging from falls, errors ...

Editorial Issue 117

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As can be gleaned from a number of features, book reviews and letters within this issue, cancer is hardly the good news it is sometimes presented as in the Media. In the words of B...

Editorial Issue 116

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It is generally only through the sobering experience of personal or family illness and the ensuing medical treatments for that condition that we discover the truly pervasive and po...

Editorial Issue 114

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The ruling about the EU Food Supplement Directive (FSD) at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 12th July has, thankfully, not resulted in the Armageddon scenario previously fear...

Editorial Issue 113

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It has been awhile since I have been riveted by a genuinely exciting, inspiring scientific tale of discovery that clinically alleviates symptoms of long-sufferers of Chronic Fatigu...

Editorial Issue 112

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The freedom to improve our health and treat numerous conditions using nutritional and herbal medicines is constantly under threat. Positive Health has widely publicized the campaig...

Editorial Issue 111

by Sandra Goodman PhD

I have been extremely apprehensive about what the best voting options would be at the general election on 5 May regarding the EU Supplement and Herbal Medicines Directive.

Editorial Issue 110

by Sandra Goodman PhD

John Spottiswoode's thought-provoking feature Cancer Causes and Mechanisms: Hypothesis (see pages 29-34) offers many fascinating insights regarding his central hypothesis that vari...

Editorial Issue 109

by Sandra Goodman PhD

It is sometimes hard to know whether matters are progressing or not with Complementary Medicine. There are times when one almost despairs. Take the case of Jennifer Worth (see page...

Editorial Issue 108

by Sandra Goodman PhD

Dr Robert Atkins, who tragically died last year after falling on the pavement and hitting his head, has been the subject of innumerable, inaccurate and sometimes ignorant swipes, b...

Editorial Issue 107

by Sandra Goodman PhD

The other night on Newsnight I viewed a most innovative treatment by a Chinese doctor for degenerative neurological conditions including spinal cord injury, paralysis, ALS (Lou Geh...

Editorial Issue 106

by Sandra Goodman PhD

As you may already have heard, Here's Health, the longest lived magazine in the UK about Complementary Medicine, ceased publication; the November 2004 issue was the last. This info...