There are major disparities in the provision of palliative care around the world. In recent years, a statement of advocacy and objective has been repeatedly articulated that the provision of palliative care is a human right. This article examines the foundation for this assertion in the context of international human rights law. The strengths and weaknesses of this assertion are examined. The n...

As I sit down to write this update on the global initiative to recognize Palliative Care (including psychosocial cancer care) and Pain Treatment as Human Rights, it is perhaps ironic that I have spent the entire morning watching the television coverage of the 10 Anniversary Memorial Services for the September 11, 2001 victims of the terrorist attacks on the United States. I was most personally ...

personal security is a favorable state in which human being is secured that all his freedoms and rights are not violated, which will be increased and extended. since in some of international documents, this right is explicitly mentioned and in iranian constitutional law it is not expressly mentioned, it is necessary to study and analyze theories and examples for achieving the definition, which ...

it has been reported previously that modulatory effects of pleasant and unpleasant slides on the human acoustic reflex are observed only if startle probes are presented to the left ear or with binaural presentation. the present study examined the effects of the left and the right ear stimulation on modulated startle reflex (as indexed by eyeblink component, measured at the right eye) employing ...

Background: There is paucity of measures to conduct epidemiological studies related to disasters in Sri Lanka. This study validates a Sinhalese translation of the Impact of Event Scale8 items version (IES-8) for use in Sri Lanka. Methods: This cross-sectional validation study was conducted in the densely populated rural area of Tangalle in the Southern province of Sri Lanka. The English version...

ESPEN is strongly encouraging the national societies to implement the resolution on Food and Nutritional Care in Hospitals, as adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in November 2003. The Committee of Ministers is the decision-making body of the Council, consisting of the foreign ministers of the member countries, or their ambassadors. The main aims of the Council are to...

The European Court lifted the Italian ban on pre-implantation diagnostics (PGD). As such the Court accepted PGD as a generally accepted means for medically assisted procreation, which mayhaveconsequences for other member states prohibiting PGD.