Editorials

Editorial Issue 57

Regarding scientific research and other important health information, the most difficult attributes to ferret out, but which are fundamental, underlying the information's reliability and integrity, are who is reporting the information, what is their independence or commercial links or sponsorships, and any ulterior agenda which may underlie the announced information.
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Editorial Issue 56

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 Institute (NCI), as well as Finland's public health and cancer epidemiological specialists.
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Editorial Issue 55

I am continuously shocked by the colossal ignorance of health professionals regarding published research across the many disciplines of Complementary Medicine. Following a recent health scare about incorrect pathology screening reports, I heard an interview with the Health Minister about prospective new initiatives (for this read money) in cancer healthcare services. There was talk about more radiotherapy and scanning equipment, and more money to reduce waiting times for diagnosis and treatment. However, I did not hear a single mention, nor do I ever hear any mention of, the implementation of dietary, nutritional or botanical regimes, or even research projects into such treatment of various cancers.

Editorial Issue 54

The huge gulf which exists between natural-oriented therapies and people who follow more mainstream life practices never ceases to amaze me.
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Editorial Issue 53

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 wars in Biafra, and the Congo, starving children in India and Pakistan. Layered on top were the ghastly polio epidemics which interceded into my childhood summers, with the spectre of iron lungs and paralysis brazen images onto my psyche. These events, together with the enormous scientific and medical advances which promised to put an end to hunger and disease, and my father's exhortations that with my brains I could significantly help mankind, hugely shaped my motivation to try to help people who were ill and starving.

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