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Rachel Yantzi is a Canadian nurse and mobile support technician. Rachel has a specialisation in paediatric and neonatal ...

The French philosopher Albert Camus once said, “There is but one severe philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” It is a problem we are still grappling with today. Ten states and the District of ...

Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care, an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested. Palliative care initiated earlier than 3 months before ...

Though the obstacles are many, it’s worth the effort to provide palliative care to patients with heart failure, according to a new paper from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA). The consensus ...

Only 14% of people who need palliative care actually receive it. You may receive palliative care alongside treatments designed to cure your illness. It is possible to be eligible for palliative care ...

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 ...

For many people with cancer and other serious diseases, palliative care is an important element of their journey. Palliative care can be valuable at any stage of an illness. When people with cancer ...

The term palliative care has long been associated with an end-of-life connotation. Patients who are offered palliative care services might panic and assume they have no options left. This could not be ...

Here’s how to get relief from the nausea, anxiety, pain, and other symptoms of advanced prostate cancer and its treatments. Palliative care can make life more manageable during cancer treatment, but ...