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

Palliative care focuses on relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness such as cancer. It includes these aspects for people with cancer and for their families: pain and symptom management ...

As the number of people in Northern Ireland needing palliative and end of life care continues to rise, Dr Catherine Doherty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nadeem Anam, Associate Director, Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI) shared his valuable inputs on various aspects ...

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 ...

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 ...

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