Palliative care consultations helped patients with esophageal cancer at end-of-life experience better quality of life and ...

Palliative care isn’t always a part of just end-of-life care. It can be used at any point to improve your quality of life — but it cannot cure an illness. Palliative chemotherapy may be used ...

Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care. At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative ...

Remember, accepting palliative care doesn't mean stopping cancer treatment. Instead, it means having additional experts focused on your comfort and quality of life during treatment, which can help ...

MPs scrutinising a plan to legalise assisted dying are set to hear evidence from England’s chief medical officer Professor ...

Our multidisciplinary team of experts (global palliative care, respiratory medicine, epidemiology, palliative medicine, psychiatry, sport science, global public health and health economics ...

A program that provides palliative care to people with dementia and their caregivers lowered the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations by approximately half in about a year, a new ...

Dyspnea is one of the most common symptoms reported by patients receiving palliative care. It is not only a symptom of severe or chronic pulmonary disease, but is also associated with a wide ...