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MOHW stresses palliative care amid dying debate

NMC Healthcare Strengthens Palliative Care Offering To Meet Growing Patient Needs In The UAE

NMC Healthcare Group (“NMC“), a leading integrated private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates, highlights the vital role of palliative care, a specialist service that...

Jerry Pinto discusses palliative care at Visakhapatnam event

Care not Killing responds to reintroduction of Leadbetter Bill

Palliative Care Must Come First: Rather than legalising medically assisted killing, polling consistently shows the public would rather Members of Parliament concentrate on: • Fixin...

The Power of Offering Alternatives: a true end-of-life story

How might we help a sick older person have a better end-of-life experience? Planning for future health crises and end-of-life situations — a process known as advance care planning...

Hospice programme boosts end‑of‑life care in Oxfordshire

The Rapid Intervention in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (RIPEL) programme is co-funded by Sobell House Hospice Charity and Macmillan Cancer Support.

What home hospice care gave us in her final days

My wife and companion of nearly 50 years is dead. She used to say that when I was home, the house was pretty quiet. As a health care educator and patient advocate, much of my time...

When It’s Time to Die: The Need for Palliative Care Training

We all will die one day. Surgeons need to be able to discuss death and what care at the end of our lives looks like.

Spiritual care ‘essential’ in cancer care, but often not provided

Most clinicians agree that spiritual care is “essential” to taking care of patients with cancer, but only a fraction routinely screen for distress.In a survey of nearly 700 oncolog...

When the right end-of-life care is hardest to access

The cost of health care in America is extraordinarily high, too often funding the wrong type of care. As a geriatric medicine and palliative care physician, I sit with patients and...

MedCity Pivot Podcast: The Evolution of At-Home Care

In this month’s pivot podcast, I speak to the chief medical officer of San Francisco-based Vynca, an innovative company in the world of palliative care that is providing serious di...

Guardianship and hospice care fail dying patients

His dimly lit room is quiet except for the hum of the monitor. “Mr. L” is alone, lying flat on his back in a slightly inclined bed, eyes squeezed shut, hands raised in the air as i...

Word of the Day : Palliate

pal-li-ate verb :: To reduce the violence or intensity. "The doctor tried unsuccessfully to palliate the pain that resulted from the disease". More Vocabulary Articles...

Dying Without a Safety Net

America funds the crisis. It’s time to fund the care that prevents it. The post Dying Without a Safety Net appeared first on MedCity News.

Why closure matters at the end of life

A peaceful, supported end-of-life experience — focused on family and closure — can transform both dying and grieving.

Managing serious illness conversations in blood cancers

Patients with serious illness may gradually develop a form of “double awareness” — the ability to hold hope for continued living while also preparing for the possibility of dying.O...

Knowing when to stop treatment is medicine’s quiet burden

It was my first ICU call shift as a second-year resident, and my first time holding the code pager, which rested, quiet but not quite forgotten, in my scrub top pocket until around...

How cancer care terminology harms patient choices

“Can we fit just a few more?” This was the question I was asked one snowy evening. Pretty soon, I found myself surrounded by no less than 20 people. They had all convened here to s...

PERCS Initiative Advances Comprehensive Care Models for Cancer Survivors

The evolving landscape of cancer care has brought about a pressing need to refine and enhance survivorship care, particularly within the realm of primary care. Despite the fact tha...

How doctors die differently than the rest of us

When my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, I made him a promise. I told him I would not let him die in a hospital. I had been an ICU nurse for years by then. I knew w...

The collusion in discussing prognosis with cancer patients

Two people sit in an exam room. One has an illness that will end their life. The other knows. Neither wants to say it out loud, so neither does. The conversation drifts toward next...

Smartphone App Helps Those With Advanced Cancer Maintain Quality Of Life

TUESDAY, June 2, 2026 — A smartphone app can help individuals with advanced cancer deal with symptoms and maintain their quality of life, according to new research.The SUPPORT+ ap...

End-of-life decision-making is never a solo act

Technological and biomedical advancements are undeniable blessings in today’s health sector. These advancements have improved life-prolonging technologies. So, clinicians can often...

No doctor wants to have this conversation with a patient. For everyone’s sake, we must | Ranjana Srivastava

Holistic care for incurably ill people has to include discussions about death and dying – but getting there is hardIt could be her usual generosity or disquiet, subtly disguised, b...