Dr Richard Smith blogs on the BMJ website about issues relating to global access to palliative care. What has been achieved in Kerala, he says, [...]
Dr Supten Sarbadhikari invites your attention to a study conducted in Tamil Nadu and Kerala about the problems of the elderly. Reported in The Hindu, [...]
Pallium India, together with National and District government authorities, is organizing a get-together for patients in and around Trivandrum, Kerala, particularly those who are bed-bound [...]
Here in Trivandrum, Kerala, we have just finished celebrating Onam, the harvest festival in Kerala. It is a time of family reunions and celebration, with [...]
Farhin, 10, and Farhan, 8, are primary school students in Sharjah, UAE. After they and their father, Dr Shafi, heard about the difficulties faced by Kunnamkulam [...]
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 [...]
We have, on this blog, talked about the high costs of modern medical treatment and its impact on society. The 2009 edition of the Oxford [...]
A small international study, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, reports that families of terminally ill patients suffer significant economic effects related to the [...]
An article written by Mr T.V. Jayan in Calcutta’s daily newspaper, The Telegraph, refers to the same white paper and deals with the India’s need for palliative [...]
Onam is the annual harvest festival of Kerala, one that symbolises plenty, truth and honesty. The celebrations have started and will reach its peak on [...]
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