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Padmashri award for Dr M R Rajagopal

January 25, 2018

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 [...]
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Hippocratic Premieres in Bangalore

January 23, 2018

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 [...]
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IJPC – Methadone Special Supplement

January 22, 2018

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 [...]
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Call for Developing Countries Project Initiative for Improving Pain Education Grant Applications

January 17, 2018

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 [...]
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Can you help us update our palliative care directory?

January 10, 2018

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 [...]
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E Divakaran – winner of Pratheeksha award

December 30, 2017

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 [...]
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ESMO’s position paper expresses commitment to palliative care during cancer treatment:

December 29, 2017

“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 [...]
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“Care” vs “overzealous treatment”: Pope Francis speaks on end of life issues

December 29, 2017

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 [...]
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Obituary: Joseph Pulikkunnel

December 29, 2017

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 [...]
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Reform in Medical Education in India proposed

December 28, 2017

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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