Given that 2014 is the 20^th anniversary year since the launch of Positive Health PH Online, there is much to contemplate regarding progress or lack thereof with respect of the integration of Complementary / Alternative / Natural Medicine into Conventional Medicine, i.e. my original objective for Positive Health PH Online  - achieving an Integrated Medicine system.

2014 is Positive Health PH Online’s 20^th Anniversary; the growing international PH Online community continues to esteem this quality collection of articles, research and book reviews about natural health approaches, written by outstanding clinicians and researchers and by people who have clinically benefitted from a multiplicity of disciplines.

There are several factors regarding cancer treatment regimens conspiring to create a catch-22 situation, preventing the broadening the scope of cancer treatment.

In this 20^th anniversary year of Positive Health PH Online, the political climate appears to be heating up, although I don’t suppose that there was never any heat - just perhaps that we weren’t as aware of all the back door campaigns to maintain the supremacy of non-natural treatments for health conditions and denigrate natural treatment approaches

Positive Health PH Online has always placed an important emphasis upon the environmental impact upon our health, publishing numerous editorial features over the decades describing mercury / dental toxicity, environmental toxins / sickness / clinical ecology / allergies, electrosensitivity / electromagnetic stress/ damaged / depleted soil / chemical toxicities in personal care products / fragrances.

www.positivehealth.com/articles/environmental

Positive Health PH Online readers appreciate how, in healthcare as in all other endeavours, our treatment approaches are influenced by our worldview - our education, training, beliefs, i.e. how we perceive and understand illness and how to optimize health. Evidently, how we have been brought up, how we view the world, what type of training and profession we have followed, will all ‘colour’ our worldview. This also extends to our every domain - politics, religion, economics, architecture, entertainment. Army generals generally see events on the ground differently than politicians or religious leaders or the people affected. These are self-evident truths.