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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new poll reveals large gaps in older adults’ knowledge about two types of care that could help them or their loved ones cope with a major illness or the end of life: palliative care and hospice.

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 ...

(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 ...

Palliative care is an effective strategy to improve the quality of care and quality of life for seriously ill individuals while reducing the cost of care for these patients. Palliative care services ...

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 ...

A new poll reveals large gaps in older adults' knowledge about two types of care that could help them or their loved ones cope with a major illness or the end of life: palliative care and hospice.