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Article: Labelling row puts homeopathy on trial
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- October 26, 2006
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MORE than 700 scientists, doctors and members of the public have
criticised changes to the labelling of homeopathic treatments,
prompting a debate in the House of Lords.
Last month, medicines regulators amended licensing rules, so that
homeopathic remedies could indicate which symptoms or illnesses they
can be used to treat.
But critics say the changes allow medicines to make unproven
therapeutic claims, without the clinical evidence to back them up.
The campaign group Sense About Science contacted the Merits of
Statutory Instruments Committee about the objections, prompting
today's debate in the House of Lords.
The group complained that the regulations were laid before
parliament in ...