Palliative care has an image problem. Despite what people think, it's not some kind of "Grim Reaper service," say two of Canada's leading experts in this field of medicine. Ideally, it should ...

Palliative care is sometimes called supportive care. It offers relief, support and comfort to people, both in and out of the hospital setting. Having palliative care doesn’t mean you will die soon. It ...

Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care. At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative ...

With effective palliative care and support, colorectal cancer patients can maintain comfort and dignity throughout their ...

patients or family can register themselves if they think they fit the palliative-care definition.

Researchers evaluated billing for early palliative care among Medicare beneficiaries who were newly diagnosed with 1 of 6 common distant-stage cancers.

Our multidisciplinary team of experts (global palliative care, respiratory medicine, epidemiology, palliative medicine, psychiatry, sport science, global public health and health economics ...

The observation put her on a path to her current research focus on palliative care—first to how families decide to enroll a loved one with dementia into hospice, and then to an interest in the ...