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  • Martin Dann: Is Baroness aware that when Australia introduced helmet laws in the 1990's, there was almost no effect on the rate of head injuries. Simply put, cycle helmets don't protect from any kind of... (19 June 2009)
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  • Jane Birkby: Words, words and Grandiose sounding schemes overseen by yet more bureaucracy, that is all we get from Labour. They talk a lot, concentrate on unnecessary things and hardly any of it translates... (2 May 2009)
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  • Sue Young: Homeopathy works, it is cheap and cost effective http://avilian.co.uk/2009/02/addenbrooke s-discover-like-cures-like-cure-for-pean ut-allergy/ http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/... (4 April 2009)
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  • barbara richards: "Sometimes people need to be deprived of liberty in their own best interests, to protect them from harm" Oh, you mean like Place of Safety orders? That happened to me, after I had been... (1 April 2009)
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  • jessica winslet: Thanks for the update.last but not least, eating disorder is a mental health issue and maybe we need to start stigmatizing for not having a mental disorder. (27 February 2009)
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  • Diane Quinton-Adams: I suffer from the effects multiple illnesses including cancer in 2 places, arthritis, arterial thrombosis etc. My council has made my life miserable and have already been found guilty of... (1 December 2008)
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  • Paul Abraham: Local Government Ombudsman "quick and effective"? That would be laughable if it were not so depressing. The LGO is a rubber stamp organisation. It is run by local government officials to protect... (26 November 2008)
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  • andrew simpson: As a mental health nurse working in an area deemed as a place of safety I can appreciate that police stations are not always the most appropriate places of safety, but until police stop making... (23 November 2008)
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  • Leigh Storey: Prescribing medication for individuals, and certainly for an entire population, must be subject to strong ethical principles. These principles have been enshrined in internationally accepted... (19 July 2008)
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  • Trevor Nunn: What's the point of submitting a complaint to a Local Government Ombudsmen when Councils can ignore them with impunity. Trafford (and a number of other councils) have all refused to remedy acts... (17 June 2008)
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  • Mr Raymond Neal: The noble Baroness need not bother. I have searched scientific papers and the internet for several years and I can safely say the number of deaths from food supplements is zero, none. (17 May 2008)
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  • Leigh Storey: Prescribing medication for individuals, and certainly for an entire population, must be subject to strong ethical principles. These principles have been enshrined in internationally accepted... (25 April 2008)
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  • Brenda Southwell: Adding flouride to the water and therefore mass medicating the population is not the answer to tooth decay. Why not bring back the school visits by dentists. In the 1960's when I was at primary... (25 April 2008)
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  • Derek Watson: It is illogical to allow Direct Payments in social care, but not in the NHS, especially where NHS availability is poor or non-existent, as in dentistry. Derek Watson, Dental Practitioners... (3 April 2008)
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  • Derek Watson: No, they let the system collapse so people have no choice but to pay privately, effectively forcing people to pay once through their taxes and again when they buy the service which the state is... (3 April 2008)
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  • Mr Raymond Neal: Can the Noble Lady tell me how many illnesses or deaths are caused by vitamins, and does the Noble Lady realise that the largest amount of vitamin C you can buy in Germany and other European... (11 March 2008)
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  • charles williams: Given that there are at least 250 academic papers demonstrating that men experience domestic violence at similar rates as women, and that *most* women who use domestic violence services are... (7 March 2008)
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  • barbara richards: All that is ever done is talk talk talk. I am one of those abused women - I've cried and yelled for help but just been totally ignored again and again and again. And the man who raped me has... (7 March 2008)
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  • barbara richards: All I can say to this is that I am a victim of child abuse (Pindown) and domestic violence (rape and punchings) and I have been trying for nearly 40 years!!!!! to get some answers to the root of... (7 March 2008)
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  • Grace Filby: The strong mechanisms in place may assess the quality of food and nutritional care, but perhaps it is worth checking whether they really do assess the level of simple feeding of patients that is... (5 February 2008)
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  • molijana : if children were assisted in finding their true talents...the world would be a better place...children love what interests them and inspires them if we can help them find their niche in life they... (21 July 2006)
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  • molijana : if children were assisted in finding their true talents...the world would be a better place...children love what interests them and inspires them if we can help them find their niche in life they... (21 July 2006)
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