At the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs at New York on 19 April 2016, Mr Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister said: “India [...]
Congratulations to palliative care nurses in Kerala. Out of their own initiative, the first nurses’ palliative care conference was conducted on 22, 23 April 2016 [...]
Final orders were passed on 01 April 2016 on our litigation in the Supreme Court of India pending since 2007. In its orders, the Supreme [...]
The recently-launched Healthy India Alliance (HIA) is the Indian arm of the global NCD Alliance which has been very successful in advocacy for Prevention and [...]
Times of India reports on 26 April that a new help desk has been launched at MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre: A [...]
On 19th April 2016, 193 UN member states came together at a UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), and formally approved an Outcome Document on [...]
Seattle Saptaswara and Care & Share joined hands to organize a musical extravaganza to support palliative care in India. We thank the organizers, musicians, volunteers [...]
Dr Stephen Connor writes from New York – the venue of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs held from 19-21 April, 2016: [...]
Dr Nandini Vallath, who attended CND, Vienna in March 2016 writes: The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) consists of representatives of government departments of the [...]
To Neha, a mother of two with metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer, hospice meant the transition from “I do not want to live” at the end of [...]
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