Welcome to 2013 and the Feb Issue 203 of Positive Health PH Online - our 19^th year of publication!!  www.positivehealth.com/issue/issue-203-february-2013

I say this every issue that there are a selection of superb and thought-provoking editorial features which are highly original and informative. However it is true for Feb Issue 203 and you should require no further prompting to immerse yourself in these pearls of wisdom:

As we are poised on the brink of moving into the new year 2013, this Issue 202 of Positive Health PH Online similarly bridges many of the gaps which certain forces believe to separate complementary / alternative medicine from conventional / orthodox healthcare. As long time, devoted readers of PH Online realize, I do not subscribe to the notion that various techniques / disciplines of healthcare constitute separate worldviews of medicine. I have long been an advocate of the vision that healthcare is multi-faceted and that there are a multitude of various disciplines and techniques, practised by different practitioners. Hence, I don’t see the sense of considering that osteopathic practitioners are alternative, but that physiotherapists are conventional, or that nutritionists are alternative but dieticians are orthodox.