Canada's 2016 law on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) spurred great interest in efforts to provide alternative treatments that help people cope with terminal illness. Changes in the nation's ...

A worsening shortage of palliative care physicians is predicted over the next 14 years. One healthcare leader suggests ways to address the crisis. Diane Meier, MD, director of the Center to Advance ...

Healthcare workers who received palliative care training at six medical centers improved patient outcomes in four areas, according to a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

To the Left, the ‘Blue State Model’ Is About Much More Than Economics Audio By Carbonatix Some anti-euthanasia activists see the bill as a Trojan horse that would fund training in assisted-suicide ...

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Two U.S. senators have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA). The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Tammy Baldwin, ...

Established by the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Palliative Care Leadership Centers TM (PCLC) have trained almost half of the nation′s hospital palliative ...

Future family nurse practitioner Parag Raychoudhury considers her college’s emphasis on palliative care training as essential. “Palliative care isn’t just about death and dying,” she said. “Any ...

“My Family Wants Something Different”: Discordance in Perceived Personal and Family Treatment Preference and Its Association With Do-Not-Resuscitate Order Placement The PC rotation included a 4-week ...

Oncologists who practice and teach at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center are calling on medical oncology training programs to invest substantially more time educating physicians about palliative ...

The benefits of strong training in palliative care for oncologists cannot be overstated. Evidence and experience indicate that a significant proportion of patients in a medical oncology office have ...