New York State’s Palliative Care Information Act, which was passed last summer and implemented in February, is meeting resistance from doctors who treat patients at the end of their life. The law was ...

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious ...

How do you behave toward patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This question brought psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet and ...

A brochure produced by Liberal Member for Wagga, Daryl Maguire, on palliative care for the region has been described as creating more questions than answers. The 18 page booklet was recently delivered ...

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 ...

Imagine a pill that allows seriously ill people to live longer, better lives, spend less time in the hospital. Imagine that it even makes it more likely to die at home surrounded by family, rather ...

Information on palliative care in their languages, a place to call for further information, involvement of family in care, cooking and cleaning support, religious music and prayer, and support for ...

“Palliative Care Found to Extend Life of Cancer Patients” (news article Aug. 19) reveals how important it is for dying patients to receive palliative care to have their symptoms and pain managed well.