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…
Till now, Palliative Medicine was not approved as a medical specialty by the Medical Council of India (the statutory body with the authority to do [...]
Suma’s story was part of the discussion at the Third International Congress on Kerala Studies, organised by the AKG Study and Research Centre at University College, [...]
