A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

An Isle of Wight hospice nurse has been recognised for her outstanding work in palliative care. Theresa McNamara, lead inpatient unit nurse at Mountbatten Isle of Wight, won the Excellence in ...

A German doctor will go on trial today for killing 15 patients with lethal injections, in what investigators fear may just be ...

A German doctor will go on trial Monday for killing 15 patients with lethal injections, in what investigators fear may just ...

Image shows a painting of a parent holding a child's hand by Emily Tammam, a bereaved mother who lost her 10-year-old ...

Death cafés are bringing artists, neighbours and strangers together to discuss life’s only certainty – not through morbidity, ...

Liam MacCormick, who is in the middle of his journey, presented a multi-piece, hands-on work he calls “Hands of Life.” Nine ...

A woman's death could potentially have been prevented if care home workers had raised the rails on the side of her bed, a ...

The award was presented in recognition of the team’s outstanding teamwork and dedication to supporting people at the end of ...

A new study has found that psilocin—a compound produced in the body after consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms—extended the lifespan of human skin and lung cells in the ...

An exploration of a determined woman’s choices at the end of her life, from the perspectives of family, medicine and law, is ...

Patients with inoperable hepatobiliary cancers often endure severe abdominal pain, which impacts their quality of life. This pain is usually a combination of both nociceptive and neuropathic pain, ...