Editorial Issue 142 Print Email
The notion that the individual, i.e. you or I, can make a difference to the world, has become familiar, yet sacred within the spiritual as well as the broader mainstream world. This is what we are taught as children, within our families and schools, this is what the media inculcates to us through  numerous charity appeals: cancer patients raising money, families raising money for crusades against miscarriages of justice, or closure of hospitals, or aid to developing impoverished countries. The strength of the individual is the foundation of charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and organizations too numerous to list.
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Editorial Issue 141 Print Email
Continuing on from my Economics and Budget discourse from the previous month (Issue 140, Oct ‘07), I have been further exercising my brain about the arbitrary nature of our current economic paradigm and how this compares to the mechanistic/ wholistic dichotomy in healthcare.
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Editorial Issue 140 Print Email
The extent to which all endeavours have now been reduced to an Accountant-like bottom line mentality is breathtaking and despicable.

As I am certain everyone is aware, the funding of healthcare and potentially life-saving treatment is based upon analysis by NICE, a postcode lottery of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) or other bureaucratic considerations. I recently listened to a Radio Five Live program in which a man with terminal kidney cancer was being denied funding from his PCT for a drug which could prolong his life, possibly for weeks or months, on the basis of excessive cost (£3,000 per month).
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Editorial Issue 139 Print Email
Today it is more difficult than ever to be fully informed regarding medical, lifestyle and scientific matters unless you are permanently hooked up with the electronic equivalent of an intravenous drip.
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Editorial Issue 138 Print Email
Am I a naïve imbecile or what? Just as more detailed research is being published and accumulated regarding the importance of diet and nutrition in disease prevention and treatment, there appears to be a greater effort and focus in closing down health stores and quality and innovative nutritional supplements. Not to mention the increased litigation and prosecution of practitioners who recommend specific nutritional supplements, under the Kafkaesque laws classifying a supplement as a food or a drug.
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