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Editor's note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming ...

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.

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as care that, improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bortezomib Added to R-CVP Is Safe and Effective for Previously Untreated Advanced-Stage Follicular Lymphoma: A Phase II Study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group ...

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 ...

An international group of authors has called for a shift in cardiovascular care. In the public eye, palliative care is often ...

Most of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who die each year from natural causes spend their final days under the care of family doctors and nurses. Many experts in end-of-life care question ...