Your healthcare partners are committed to providing you with the most up-to-date and timely therapies and interventions to treat breast cancer. One of these interventions is palliative care, also ...

For many reasons, few of us like to reflect on our own mortality or the circumstances that may accompany our death. But the fact of the matter, of course, is that each of us will die some day, and ...

Bottom Line: The majority of surveyed Americans had an inadequate understanding of palliative care, and frequency of health care utilization was one determinant of knowledge. Journal in Which the ...

These profound words so beautifully describe the ideal objective of medical care. Who first used them is unclear. Although today we might add something about preserving health rather than focus on ...

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 ...

Home healthcare patients, caregivers and clinicians have significant knowledge gaps surrounding palliative care, which are contributing to poorer health outcomes for sick patients, according to a new ...

When patients face certain diagnoses, they may need care that’s targeted to their illness while allowing them to keep living their best lives. That’s where palliative care comes in. Palliative care is ...

When you have non-small -lung cancer (NSCLC), the disease and treatments for it can take a toll on how you feel. You may have pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, depression, and shortness of breath.

MADISON, Wis. -- "What if my grandchildren forget about me?" That's what a local retired firefighter asked himself after a life-changing diagnosis. A cure was never the goal, but he found a different ...

Most doctors are trained to fight death. Few are taught how to stand beside it. In Rwanda, Dr. Christian Ntizimira, a palliative care physician and advocate, is challenging that mindset — proving that ...

The term “hospice” is probably more familiar to most people than “palliative care.” The concept of hospice care began in England in the late 1940s, and was introduced in the United States in the 1960s ...