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 ...

Doctors often prescribe strong medications to relieve pain, distress and discomfort in palliative care, but many of these ...

While palliative care remains an uncommon offering among home-based health care providers, forward-thinking providers have ...

Physicians engaged in palliative and end-of-life care can appreciate the tremendous value social workers add to an ...

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 ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 2019, but the level remained low, according to a study published ...