Editorials

Editorial Issue 34

Happiness and Depression have become two of the most common, everyday words we bandy about. Yet, whereas talking, writing and giving seminars about how to achieve happiness can be a highly respectable (and lucrative) occupation, even admitting to be depressed can provoke dire, even life-long consequences, denying one the access to work in certain professions, or even the right to manage your affairs. Not to mention the possibility of being confined (sectioned) against your will by relatives or health professionals if you are not resigned to your possibly miserable or even tragic circumstances.

Editorial Issue 33

Cancer survival statistics make for sober reading, especially these days when the media are always ready to announce "breakthroughs" or "miracle cures". Most intelligent people who don't happen to be cancer epidemiologists would get the optimistic impression that cancer detection and cure rates are increasing and that mortality is decreasing.
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Editorial Issue 32

If you were at high risk of getting breast cancer what would you do? Suppose that you were in your early 30s, and a DNA test showed that you had inherited a gene with an 80% probability of getting breast cancer. Even worse, suppose that close female relatives – your mother or sister – had previously died of breast cancer. This is actually a horrifying yet very real scenario for some women today.

Editorial Issue 31

Complementary Medicine hasn't even achieved relegation status, because it hasn't yet officially joined the healthcare system league. While healthcare priorities entail high-tech, high-cost procedures geared especially toward younger people, complementary medicine, not having gone away after being spat at for several decades, is now being kept busy, chasing its tail, by the medical establishment, and will probably be spending the next 5–10 years defining standards, and determining who will be the kingpins within each therapy.

Editorial Issue 30

It has become an accepted fact that the causes of many cancers and other diseases are determined to a significant extent by environmental and dietary factors, including smoking, drinking, exposure to carcinogenic and mutagenic chemicals and materials. Research and clinical evidence over the past fifty years have provided us with an abundance of proof, particularly regarding environmental causes of diseases: smoking – lung cancer and heart disease; asbestos – lung cancer; nuclear radiation – leukaemia; alcohol – liver cirrhosis; smog and environmental pollution – asthma.

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