Here’s another story from The Guardian, the story of a father and son laughing over a stroke, then cancer and eventually death! Jason Cook: My dad’s [...]
“Death, even when it seems inevitable, doesn’t have to be painful”. This is the conclusion in The Peaceful Way Out, an article by Nazeem Beegum on palliative care. Published last [...]
It may mean many things including pain, but most of you would not immediately think of abandonment by the husband, of children being orphaned, or [...]
The European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) are updating their guidelines on opioids for cancer pain. As part of this review they have undertaken 22 systematic [...]
Pallium India is proud to report that as part of its “We Can, We Should, We Will Conquer Cancer” campaign, the American Cancer Society (ACS) [...]
In a recent blog post we asked the question “Can Death Become a Beautiful Experience?” prompted by the controversy surrounding a scene from the BBC documentary [...]
Death is feared by most, no doubt. Can it become a beautiful experience, the final expected opening of a door, the person turning back smiling [...]
Dr Prashant Pawar, Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital, asks us to support the Chew On This campaign: Men and women as [...]
Our friend and benefactor, Mr Bruce Davis writes to give us some sad news. Ms Val Hunkin, a great friend of Indian palliative care and [...]
When Linda Pressly from BBC Radio walked into Pallium India’s Palliative Care Unit at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences in S.U.T Hospital, she met up [...]
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