We sat down with Dr. Ashley Fedusenko to clear up some common questions about palliative care—what it really means, how it’s ...

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 ...

A new study has found that an educational program can help ease worries associated with palliative care, and make cancer patients more likely to use it if referred. Palliative care is an important ...

A new study finds that adopting palliative care within the public health system can make holistic support more accessible for ...

The phenomenon of patients trapped in a “rehabbed to death” cycle is all too prevalent, and it could be disrupted by better ...

Only about 1% of acute MI patients in the United States receive palliative care, with low rates seen even in those at highest risk of poor prognosis and death, a new analysis shows. “Palliative care ...

Treatment for Mr. M’s advanced heart failure was no longer extending or improving his life. He was becoming increasingly short of breath and confused -and hospital stays provided only short-term ...

Yesterday, speakers opened Patient-Centered Oncology Care, sponsored by The American Journal of Managed Care, with a discussion of how to bring palliative care into the mainstream in cancer care.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care providers around the country have converted the majority of outpatient consultations from in-person visits to telemedicine (videoconferencing) or ...

A study published in the scientific journal F1000 Research found that medical cannabis use increased overall survival rates ...

Patients with HMs have palliative care needs that are commensurate to those of patients with solid tumors, but are less likely to be met. 27, 28 These needs are listed in Table 1 and include ...

Palliative care has been proven to help patients recovering from heart failure or illness. As in many other healthcare treatments, there is a gap in access. Black patients are 15% less likely to ...