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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SanLuca today announced the launch of its Palliative Care product suite, with Community Health Network, Inc. (Community) as the first health system partner ...

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illnesses. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that each ...

The benefits of strong training in palliative care for oncologists cannot be overstated. Evidence and experience indicate that a significant proportion of patients in a medical oncology office have ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Some anti-euthanasia activists see the bill as a Trojan horse that would fund training in assisted-suicide techniques. Here’s why they’re wrong. When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the ...

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 ...

The Executive Director of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU), Mark Donald Mwesiga, has urged the government to train more health workers in palliative care to better serve patients in ...