After 40 years, a multi-national, multidisciplinary Task Force of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) developed a revised definition of pain that [...]
K. Vijayakumaran Nair About 14 years back, in the early days of Pallium India in Trivandrum, we had the occasion to treat Ms Rajeswary for [...]
Dear friends Over the last one month, we have seen the world change, day by day, week by week. Millions of facemasks struggle to save [...]
Many unique features of COVID-19 challenge the fundamental ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. It is important to focus on the primary duty [...]
Chairman of Pallium India, Dr M R Rajagopal writes: In the new palliative care initiative in Calicut in the 1990s, Mr Asoka Kumar was the [...]
An important initiative was launched on 29 June 2020 by the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC). There are three institutions offering a postgraduate degree [...]
Indian Journal of Palliative Care, a journal indexed in PubMed Central and available for free access, has published a supplement dedicated to palliative care in [...]
On June 2, 2020, Pallium India in collaboration with IHW Council, organized an online webinar on the topic “Key role of Palliative Care in COVID19 [...]
“World Health Organization (WHO) asks healthcare to reach people where they are and when they need it. Today, the tendency of healthcare institutions is to go [...]
When treatments are likely to be futile, “we have to accept death as an inevitable consequence of life, and allow a human being to leave [...]
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