Common symptoms that palliative care teams see in patients with metastatic breast cancer include pain, menopausal symptoms, ...

Both palliative and hospice care focus on improving quality of life. Palliative care is available at the time of diagnosis, but hospice care is only available near the end of life. There’s often ...

Twelve in every 100 people older than 60 in India — and 17 in every 100 in Bengal — need supportive palliative care, mainly because of chronic respiratory disorders, stroke and cancer, the country’s ...

The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care (UAB CPSC), one of the University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Centers (UWIRC), was established by the Board of Trustees of The University of ...

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

The Midhurst Macmillan Service is a community based, consultant-led, specialist palliative care service in a rural community in the south of England. The service seeks to provide direct care and ...

Death doulas, also known as end-of-life doulas, “provide companionship, comfort and guidance to those facing a terminal ...

KOCHI: While the country is slowly waking up to the concept of ‘palliative care’, the students of KMEA Engineering College, Edathala, have gone miles ahead with setting up an organised unit to take ...

Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...

Tamrah Harris is a registered nurse and certified personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. She is the founder and CEO of Harris Health and Wellness Communications. She has ...