Dr Rosalie Jean Shaw has recently been recognised in the 2011 Australia Day Honours List. Rosalie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, [...]
We have good news! The Government of India Department of Revenue has always been proactive in the matter of opioid availability. Initiatives by David Joranson, [...]
Dr Sukdev Nayak, the palliative care pioneer from Cuttack, Orissa, has been appointed the director of Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre. This is the first [...]
Atul Gawande writes in the New Yorker about Camden, New Jersey: 1% of patients account for 30% of the city’s medical costs Most of these [...]
Should it not be? This was one of the major points discussed during a meeting organized by the International Federation of Health and Human Rights [...]
Why should a busy surgeon in Mumbai, who has to run a hospital, help manage the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, teach as a visiting professor [...]
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) is pleased to announce 10 (ten) scholarships from the IAHPC Traveling Scholarship Program, to help support [...]
Liliana De Lima, executive director of International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care writes to notify us that oral morphine is now in the essential [...]
We are happy to announce that the December 2010 issue of SAHAYATRA, our monthly Malayalam newsletter, is now available for download here…
Medical Council of India Approves MD Palliative Medicine! Till now, Palliative Medicine was not approved as a medical specialty by the Medical Council of India [...]
