When a child is in agonizing pain, if you have the means at your disposal to relieve that pain safely, yet refuse to use them, [...]
A small international study, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, reports that families of terminally ill patients suffer significant economic effects related to the [...]
On 2 September, Dr M.R. Rajagopal received the annual award of International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) for Excellence in Pain Management for Developing [...]
We are happy to announce that the August issue of SAHAYATRA, our monthly Malayalam newsletter, is now available for download here…
Australia’s Brisbane Times speaks to Monash Medical Centre and Dandenong Hospital oncologist Ranjana Srivastava about her new book, Tell Me the Truth: Conversations with my Patients about [...]
Here is a new development from USA reported by the New York Times, “Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End“: Last week, over the objections [...]
Dr Michael Minton comments on an article in The New Yorker by Dr Atul Gawande: “This is a very insightful article by an American surgeon [...]
SPOTLIGHT… It is wonderful to get bouquets; but brickbats help us to improve. We got such an opportunity recently during a support group meeting for [...]
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that among 151 patients with newly diagnosed metastatic lung cancer, those who received palliative care [...]
India has the 4th largest GDP in the world, but, in terms of providing palliative care, it ranks even lower than Uganda – an economy [...]
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