The Guardian reports on a Stanford University School of Medicine study which finds that love not only blocks pain, it also seems to stimulate the [...]
For those who attended the palliative care conference in Fresno last month, it was indeed a powerful experience to listen to a talk by Dianne [...]
Dr Richard Lim from Malaysia writes to introduce their new Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guideline on Cancer Pain Management in Malaysia. A large official launch [...]
Dr Yousuf Tak from Srinagar writes, It is a really tough time Kashmir is going through at the moment. But, we managed to organise a [...]
The Rain Gods Helped Us! Our celebrations for World Palliative Care Day on 9th October 2010 in Trivandrum were a phenomenal success. It was raining cats [...]
Dr Piyush Gupta, organizing secretary, invites you to the 18th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care at Lucknow – the historic City of [...]
We are happy to announce that the September issue of SAHAYATRA, our monthly Malayalam newsletter, is now available for download here…
Mrs. X was in tears. Her husband has gone through three cancers: a non-Hogdkin’s lymphoma, then a Hodgkins lymphoma and finally a malignant melanoma. She [...]
Kathy Kreiter, the executive director of International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) brings our attention to another report from the Economist, Pain in Africa: [...]
A lot of needless suffering results from the fear that hospice care or palliative care means giving up hope. It is certainly not so. Palliative care [...]
