Cancer patients were the star participants at a palliative care summit held Friday in Seattle. The Palliative Care Quality Measurement Summit was the latest in a series of community meetings designed ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - If your loved one was facing a serious illness, would you know how to provide care and support? Palliative care could be the answer. On April 20, the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon ...

The author(s) indicated no potential conflicts of interest. Corresponding author: Arif H. Kamal, MD, 20 Medicine Circle, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Box 3436, Durham, NC ...

A popular misconception of palliative care is that it only has importance toward making patients comfortable at the end of their lives, noted a palliative care physician on the first day of the 2021 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An educational session presented over two mornings at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition provided a ...

Recent developments in the emerging field of home- and community-based palliative care (HCPC) have the potential to expand access to palliative care but also risk compromising a core tenet of ...

For my parent’s generation, there were certain topics not mentioned in polite society, one of them being death. Wow, how that has changed. It may be that medical students are not yet getting much ...

When someone has a condition that is difficult or impossible to cure, treatment often focuses on relieving the symptoms and improving the person’s quality of life. This vital form of care is called ...

(HealthDay News) — Competencies need to be developed for pediatrics hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) subspecialty, according to a special article published online Nov. 17 in Pediatrics. On behalf ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

India has just four palliative-care centres for every 10 million people, leaving millions battling cancer, chronic illnesses ...