BOB ABERNETHY: Our cover story this week concerns children at the end of life, in pain and, often, alone. A new report from the Institute of Medicine, which advises the government on health policy, ...

A new article in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology examines the ethical, equity, and societal/relational implications of digital health technologies for precision medicine in end-of-life care.

Ethics in palliative care is a matter of "practical reasoning" about individual patients. Although there are many approaches proposed by ethicists for the analysis and resolution of difficult ...

Myrick C. Shinall Jr. ([email protected]) is a surgeon and palliative care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also works in the Center for Biomedical ...

Management of the primary site in stage IV non-small cell lung cancer: SEER analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This abstract ...

One day, you or someone you love is going to desperately need end-of-life care - and there will be no-one to provide it. Isn't that worth a phone call to your local state representative? Held at ...

When Pedro Faust Tzul Menchu, a 45-year-old man with colon cancer, told his oncologist he couldn’t move his leg, a medical alarm bell went off. He’d received chemotherapy a week before, so his other ...

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.

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 ...

Both palliative and hospice care focus on improving quality of life. Palliative care is available at the time of diagnosis, but hospice care is only available near the end of life. There’s often ...

Doctors and families try to find the best way to relieve the suffering of dying children. A new report from the Institute of Medicine, which advises the government on health policy, calls on the U.S.