Well, friends, it is Christmas time. The year is almost over – it is time to look back at the year gone by and to [...]
The whole of palliative care community of India feels that the ban of inexpensive analgesic Dextropropoxyphene is unreasonable. We also suspect that it is the [...]
We thank Dr Vijayanand Palanisamy from Hyderabad for bringing our attention to the findings published in Journal of American Medical Association of December 8, 2014 [...]
“The low cost, better hospitality and up to the mark palliative care were the factors that will make India a global leader in health tourism,” [...]
If it is beneath you to fetch a pitcher of ice water for a thirsty patient, so is the practice of medicine. – Mark Reid, [...]
Pallium India and SAT Paediatric Department & Paediatric Neurology are organising the third anniversary celebration and family get-together of Pratheeksha Paediatric Pain and Palliative Care [...]
People receiving care from the palliative care unit at Pain and Palliative Care Society, which functions in Pushpagiri Medical College Hospital, Thiruvalla, in Kerala, were [...]
Atul Gawande’s latest book, Being Mortal, is listed among the “Ten Must-Read Books” by several newspapers and websites. We feel it must also be made [...]
Dr Odette Spruyt, a member of our association, is conducting a qualitative study exploring the views of doctors working in Australia and India, about suffering. [...]
“In India, palliative care activists are celebrating the unprecedented changes in policies recently initiated by the Government of India. So what’s to celebrate and what [...]
