Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people with serious or life-altering illnesses. Each person’s care varies but can involve physical, psychological, and educational elements.
Neither type of care requires you to give up your primary doctor. Both palliative and hospice care will work with your primary doctor to coordinate and manage your care. The main difference ...
When you request a referral to Supportive and Palliative Care, you’re asking for help in controlling your pain and other symptoms and challenges associated with your cancer or treatment. Our providers ...
If we all knew that we’d have good palliative care at the end of life ... Death was a blessed relief. Let’s give people the choice in situations like this. Liz Harrison Ponteland ...
The goal of palliative care is to manage this pain effectively. Opioid analgesics are considered the most effective treatment ...
Despite considerable efforts to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the United States, a new retrospective study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers revealed that close to half of ...
The UAB Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care is an integral part of one of the nation's largest health systems. Nationally known for our compassionate care, cutting-edge research, ...
New govt regulations and policies are pushing pharmaceutical sector in the right direction, says Highnoon Labs chairman.
The law compels public and private healthcare providers to give palliative care to patients regardless of age, sex, race, religion, and nationality. All institutions will have to have teams to ...
The UAB Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care is an integral part of one of the nation's largest health systems. Nationally known for our compassionate care, cutting-edge research, ...