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PubMed2005

UK: House of Lords upholds deportation order.

On 5 May 2005, the House of Lords rejected a 30-year old HIV-positive woman's appeal of her deportation order. The woman had argued that expelling her to Uganda, a country where access to HIV medication and medical care was uncertain, constituted a violation of guarantees against inhuman treatment in the European Convention (the Convention). The House of Lords ruled that deporting an HIV-positive asylum seeker is not a violation of the Convention absent "exceptional circumstances."

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PubMed2001

The House of Lords report on complementary medicine: a summary.

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee reviewed a large amount of oral and written evidence from a wide variety of sources in order to scrutinize CAM. In their published report, they propose that CAM be subdivided into three groups for operational purposes. They note that public satisfaction with CAM is high and use of CAM is increasing. Evidence is required that CAM has an effect above and beyond placebo, and once this is provided the public should have access to it and its potential benefits. Public interest is not protected by the current lack of regulation of CAM, which should be organized in an appropriate way by and for each therapy. Acupuncture and herbal medicine should be subject to statutory regulation, and possibly non-medical homeopathy. The regulatory status of herbal medicines is particularly unsatisfactory, and should be clarified and enforced in law. Training for CAM professionals should be standardized and independently accredited and, for many, should include basic biomedical science. Registered conventional health professionals should become more familiar with CAM. Research into CAM requires the same rigour as is required of conventional medicine, and recommendations are made as to how research could be encouraged, including pump-priming by the National Health Service and Medical Research Council. The provision of information to the public and health professionals is inadequate and recommendations are made on how this should be improved. Those working in the best regulated CAM professions should work towards integration with conventional medicine.

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Comments on the report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures.

This commentary comprises our responses to each of the seven conclusions and twenty-four recommendations made in the report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures, published in July 2002.

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PubMed2005

The House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally III Bill: implications for specialist palliative care.

The Assisted Dying for the Terminally III Bill proposed to legalise both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for those with a terminal illness in the UK. A House of Lords Select Committee was convened to scrutinise this Bill and has recently published its report, which will be debated in Parliament on October 10th 2005. The written and oral evidence submitted to the Select Committee represented a wide range of views on 'assisted dying'. Much of the evidence from those countries which have legalised euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide (The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Oregon, USA) dealt with the practicalities of ending life, and the legal procedures and safeguards instigated in these countries. All the written and oral evidence in the public domain was scrutinised by the authors whilst the Select Committee was sitting. We have extracted those themes relevant to specialist palliative care practice and present them in this paper. We hope that this will provide a useful resource to inform the forthcoming public debate on assisted dying. The evidence of harms inherent in making such a change in the law, as presented to the Select Committee, has moved all three authors to oppose a change in the law.

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PubMed2003