More hosps offer palliative and medical care to elderly at home – ET…
Kochi: To cater to the city’s aging population, more hospitals here are now trying to ensure that palliative care and medical help reaches…
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Massage Therapists Ease the Pain of Hospice Patients — But Aren’t Easy to Find
BOULDER, Colo. — Ilyse Streim views massage for people in hospice care as “whispering to the body through touch.”“It’s much lighter work. It’s nurturing. It’s…
Is ICUConnect App Helping Clinicians Address Unmet Palliative Care?
The study was conducted with 43 clinicians and 111 pairs of patient/family members in six adult medical and surgical ICUs in academic and community hospitals across North Carolina.…
Pele not under terminal care, says daughter of the football legend | Football News…
SAO PAULO: Football legend Pele's medical condition has become unstable over the last few days in his battle with colon cancer, but one of his daughters on Sunday refuted reports that the…
Mumbai: New health centre offering palliative care to chronically ill patients for…
Mumbai: While palliative care is synonymous with end-of-life cancer care, a newly opened health centre in the city has been providing it for free to patients with other chronic diseases that…
Grief, Loss, and a Brighter Path Forward
"The Doctor's Art" is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and…
Opinion | We Can’t Become Numb After 1 Million COVID Deaths
*All names have been changed to protect patient privacy
The U.S. recently passed a grim…
Opinion | The Language of Cancer Needs a Rewrite
"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
Words can be cruel. Some…
Is Palliative Care Useful for COVID-19 Patients With Acute Kidney Injury?
To investigate, researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of New York University Langone Health's electronic health data of COVID-19 hospitalizations between March 2, 2020 and August…
Clinical Challenges: When to Start End-of-Life Care in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. Although treatments for metastatic breast…