Palliative care specialists have explained the order in which people lose their senses in the final hours of life, with ...

The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...

Her mother, like too many Australians, missed out on quality and timely end-of-life care. Once associated with giving up, early palliative care is better for patients and their loved ones ...

Palliative care and hospice are two types of care offered to people with serious medical illnesses. Provided to anyone, at any stage, who is continuing curative treatments and would like support ...

How to reduce suffering in children with advanced cancer remains an ongoing but urgent question. A Mass General Brigham-led study examined whether systematically surveying children with advanced ...

Early palliative care discussions, ideally within eight weeks of diagnosis, are crucial for advanced cancer patients. Integrating palliative care with curative treatment improves quality of life and ...

Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care, an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested. Palliative care initiated earlier than 3 months before ...

Palliative care integration in oncology improves quality of life, reduces aggressive end-of-life care, and may prolong survival, while lowering healthcare costs. Operational challenges include ...

Two doctors who provide palliative in-home care for patients in the Grey-Bruce region say substandard care by Victoria Order ...

One fine morning, Avdesh, a migrant labourer living in Mumbai, woke up to a terrifying reality as his body, from the neck down, did not respond. His roommates r ...

Sahana Sewa Sathkaraya is a service initiated for patients admitted to the Kandy National Hospital with incurable conditions, ...

A recent retrospective study found that earlier outpatient palliative care referrals for patients with advanced cancer were associated with a small increase in overall emergency department (ED) visits ...