Palliative Care is the medical specialty focused on relief of the pain, stress and other debilitating symptoms of serious illness. Palliative care is not dependent on prognosis and can be delivered at ...

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 ...

(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 ...