Editorials

Editorial Issue 194

It never ceases to amaze me how stridently opposing views are voiced from health and medical professionals inhabiting the same world of healthcare, and who all supposedly must be reading the same research. It simply does not, and never has computed for me how eminently qualified physicians and research scientists can repeatedly state throughout the various media – print, broadcast and social networking – that, for example, there is no science or medical evidence about vitamin C, or that nutritional therapy can be called pseudo-science.

Editorial Issue 193

My partner Mike Howell and I launched Positive Health PH Online in 1994, following my setting up of the Cancer and Nutrition database for the then Bristol Cancer Help Centre (BCNH) [now Penny Brohn Cancer Care]. One of the main objectives for Positive Health was to make available to health professionals and individuals seriously interested in non-drug treatments, authoritative information published in the scientific literature across the spectrum of natural / complementary / alternative health approaches.

Editorial Issue 192

Positive Health PH Online is not a political publication; however I don't feel the need to apologize for my great sense of loss on hearing that only yesterday 22 Feb one of the finest journalists of her generation, Marie Colvin, along with French photographer Remi Ochlik and scores of civilians were killed in Homs, Syria, adding to the lengthening death toll of over 5,000 Syrians killed. Watching slaughter on television in the face of increasing impotence is not easy for any of us.

Editorial Issue 191

I don’t suppose I am unique, but for me 2011 was an annus horribilis (I have been intending to blog about why, but haven’t yet found the time); I have been quietly thrilled that 2012 has arrived. Despite the continuous never-ending onslaught of doom-ladened media reports about financial meltdown and political back stabbings, everybody I speak with in the natural health universe have got their heads down and are slaving away with their patients, courses, products and events.

Editorial Issue 190

Here we are, on the cusp of 2012 – the start of the 18^th year of Positive Health PH Online. The flow of authoritative, informative and useful natural health information never ceases; rather its sophistication and credibility keeps growing.
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