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Gilly Burn’s Ethical Serendipity Palliative Care Study / Teaching Tour

June 29, 2019

Gilly Burn, Founder Director, Cancer Relief India, and a dear friend of palliative care in India, is organizing a study/teaching tour beginning in February 2020. [...]
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Ritu Bhalla’s opening address and what it means to us all:

June 28, 2019

Cancer leaders from 10 South-East Asian nations got together at Delhi on the 25th and 26th of June 2019. The opening address was not given [...]
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Palliative Care Always course

June 25, 2019

“Palliative Care Always: India” is a case-based online course free of cost, focusing on palliative care in India, organised by Stanford University. This course is [...]
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Addressing palliative care needs during emergencies

June 21, 2019

Following the worst flood in a century that ravaged Kerala in August 2018, killing 500 people and displacing more than a million, two thoughts remain [...]
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WHO and EU reinforce cooperation for Universal Health Coverage

June 20, 2019

Thank you, Ms Katherine Pettus of IAHPC, for informing us of the partnership entered upon between the European Commission (EC) and the World Health Organization [...]
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WHO Includes Chronic Pain in New ICD-11

June 17, 2019

“She eats like a pig and grins away happily, watching a comedy show on television; but the moment someone points out the heaps of washing [...]
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How do Indian Americans die

June 15, 2019

See the excellent article by Viji Sundaram in India-West: As Death Approaches, Older Indian Americans Unprepared for the End In India, we have a paradoxical [...]
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Rising alcohol consumption threatens health in India and globally

June 12, 2019

A press release from the Healthy India Alliance (HIA) calls for multi-sectoral action for the increasing alcohol consumption in India. The growth in per capita [...]
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Congratulations Dr. Legha – IACA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

June 5, 2019

Dr Sewa Legha is this year’s recipient of the IACA Lifetime Achievement Award in Oncology. Dr Legha served as an Attending Oncologist in the Medical [...]
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Manual for Global Palliative Care monitoring:

June 4, 2019

How does one measure access to palliative care? The one oft-quoted index, morphine (or equivalent) consumption, is grossly inadequate. Natalia Arias on behalf of “ATLANTES [...]