Your healthcare partners are committed to providing you with the most up-to-date and timely therapies and interventions to treat breast cancer. One of these interventions is palliative care, also ...

For many reasons, few of us like to reflect on our own mortality or the circumstances that may accompany our death. But the fact of the matter, of course, is that each of us will die some day, and ...

Bottom Line: The majority of surveyed Americans had an inadequate understanding of palliative care, and frequency of health care utilization was one determinant of knowledge. Journal in Which the ...

These profound words so beautifully describe the ideal objective of medical care. Who first used them is unclear. Although today we might add something about preserving health rather than focus on ...

Palliative care and hospice care have a number of things in common. Both are designed to help people living with a serious illness and to improve their quality of life. But it’s important to ...

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

Home healthcare patients, caregivers and clinicians have significant knowledge gaps surrounding palliative care, which are contributing to poorer health outcomes for sick patients, according to a new ...

The majority of surveyed Americans had an inadequate understanding of palliative care, and frequency of health care utilization was one determinant of knowledge, according to a study published in ...

As the number of people in Northern Ireland needing palliative and end of life care continues to rise, Dr Catherine Doherty of Marie Curie NI explains what palliative care really is, who it’s for, and ...

Most doctors are trained to fight death. Few are taught how to stand beside it. In Rwanda, Dr. Christian Ntizimira, a palliative care physician and advocate, is challenging that mindset — proving that ...

The term “hospice” is probably more familiar to most people than “palliative care.” The concept of hospice care began in England in the late 1940s, and was introduced in the United States in the 1960s ...