Chemotherapy - one of the three legally sanctioned highly toxic cancer treatments - the other two are surgery and radiotherapy - has often been depicted in graphic terms including  “barbaric, medieval, crimes against humanity, genocide”[1]. Lord Maurice Saatchi’s beloved wife Josephine Hart died in 2011 from inoperative and terminal ovarian cancer following chemotherapy and radiation treatments which he describes as "medieval, "degrading and ineffective” in interviews and articles published in the mainstream media.[2,3]  Maurice (Lord) Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill has been redrafted after a public consultation organised by the UK Department of Health (DH)[4] and went to committee stage in the House of Lords on 24th October 2014.[5] 

Numerous global health issues are steadily progressing which may boil over and potentially overwhelm and threaten our ability to overcome infection / diseases and maintain good health. Several of these include bacterial, viral (HIV) and parasitic (malarial) resistance to antibiotics and antiviral medicines, resulting in our inability to withstand infection, which could possibly threaten  some of the miracles of modern medicine including surgical operations.  Other equally devastating burgeoning epidemics include those of diabetes, obesity and cancer and their sequelae.

In this Feb 2014 Issue 212 of Positive Health PH Online, we continue along the 20^th anniversary journey since the launch of PH in 1994.

Prior to the launch of Positive Health PH Online in 1994 I attended a Conference at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre to discuss Nutritional and Lifestyle Guidelines for Cancer Patients. A paper by that name of which I was the lead author was subsequently published in J Nutritional Medicine, now Journal Nutritional and Environmental Medicine: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/ref/10.3109/13590849409034555

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.