Editorials

Editorial Issue 81

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 reported. There were 43 significant minor adverse events such as nausea and fainting, bruising, etc. This is a huge endorsement of acupuncture as being safe. I wonder how would this compare with the same number of conventional medical treatments?

Editorial Issue 80

When I originally started Positive Health some nine years ago, my motivation was to provide authoritative clinical and research information about complementary medicine to people who might not otherwise learn about new developments in the many natural healthcare fields.
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Editorial Issue 79

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 never ceases to amaze.
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Editorial Issue 78

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-immunology (PNI) by senior researchers Kiecolt-Glaser (see Research Updates), the history of the field of PNI goes back even further than 1939.
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Editorial Issue 77

When I recently received The British Association of Flower Essences Producers' newsletter advising that Flower Essences may come under the aegis of the Traditional Herbal Medicines Directive (THM) and that consultations are presently underway with the Medicines Control Agency (MCA), I was completely and utterly gobsmacked. Of all the utterly ludicrous scenarios, bordering on the insane, this one takes the biscuit.

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