The Central Government has announced the Padma awards for 2018 and Pallium India’s Chairman Dr M. R. Rajagopal is one of the awardees!! What an [...]
Smriti Rana, Consulting Psychologist and Programme Director at Pallium India, writes: The Premiere of Hippocratic was held at the Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan in Bangalore on [...]
The latest issue of Indian Journal of Palliative Care (Jan-Mar 2018) focuses on Methadone, with articles by M. R. Rajagopal, Sushma Bhatnagar, Srini Chary, M [...]
The IASP Developing Countries Project Initiative for Improving Pain Education Grant support clinicians in developing countries to improve essential pain education. Multiple grants of US$10,000 [...]
Our directory of palliative care centres throughout India has a very important function to perform. Every month, we get a large number of desperate questions [...]
Dr E. Divakaran, founder of Institute of Palliative Care, Trissur, is the winner of the annual award given by Pratheeksha Palliative Care, Koottanad. Congratulations, Dr [...]
“Supportive and palliative care interventions should be integrated, dynamic, personalised and based on best evidence. They should start at the time of diagnosis and continue [...]
Pope Francis has advised doctors to avoid “overzealous treatment” of patients at the end of life, saying that “burdensome” treatment may not be in the [...]
Joseph Pulikkunnel, a palliative care pioneer in Kerala, sadly died on 28 December 2017. In 1982, Mr Pulikkunnel started what could be called a fore-runner [...]
The Union Cabinet of India has approved the draft National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, which seeks to replace the existing medical education regulator Medical Council [...]
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