The WHO essential medicines list has been revised. Transdermal fentanyl (about 150 times the cost of ordinary morphine tablets in India) and sustained release morphine [...]
Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) is the brainchild of Dr Sanjeev Arora of Albuquerque, USA. Its slogan is Move Knowledge; Not Patients. ECHO uses an [...]
Thank you, Dr Aditi Chaturvedi, for bringing to our attention this powerful video released by Shankar Mahadevan foundation and Enable India. Please watch: Shankar Mahadevan’s [...]
Pallium India supports the education of children from families ravaged by disease. Many of them were on the verge of dropping out of school owing [...]
Advance directive: Supreme Court leaves it to the Parliament: On a public interest litigation filed in the Supreme Court by Girish Gokhale (lawyer), Raj Mani [...]
Qualified Private Medical Practitioners’ Association gave a huge honour to Pallium India by conferring its prestigious T.M.Paul award 2017 on Dr M.R.Rajagopal. The generous purse [...]
Tata trusts and Tata Consultancy Services have got together with Tata Memorial Cancer Centre to create DiNC. The Centre would act not only as an [...]
Kate Jackson from e-hospice writes to inform us about the launching of the book, “Building Integrated Palliative Care Programmes and Services published by former members of [...]
Dr Linge Gowda, palliative care physician and director of regional Cancer Centre, Kidwai Institute of oncology, Bengaluru was honoured at the venue of the European [...]
Dr Pramesh and team at Tata Memorial Cancer Centre cannot be complimented enough. What a phenomenal job! As part of its second national meeting, a [...]
