For too long, many have talked about the need for community-based palliative care programs as both a precursor to hospice care and even as a stand-alone service. Sure, some have given it a go, but for ...

For patients with a cancer diagnosis, early specialty palliative care is considered the standard of care. However, many patients with advanced cancer do not consistently receive specialty palliative ...

Yes! To Scaling Up Cervical Cancer Screening With Self-Collection: But the Cost of HPV Screening Must Be Reduced In August 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO outlined a global ...

Stroke is often seen as a crisis of the moment — an acute medical emergency where the first 24-48 hours are critical for survival. But for many patients, the challenges don’t end there. Navigating the ...

"He will not die on your watch." That's what the family of a patient told Sunita Puri when she was a resident in internal medicine. They were chilling words for the young doctor as she took over the ...

If you have metastatic, or advanced, breast cancer, you may consider palliative care. This form of medical care treats pain and symptoms and can be given during cancer treatments that aim to cure the ...

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 ...