Positive Health Online

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'...

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...