Here is an update on morphine sales from the Government Opium and Alkaloid Works, the only manufacturer of morphine powder in the country. All of [...]
The World Health Organization is evolving global strategy for control of non-communicable diseases. Several international organizations have been working together to include access to palliative care [...]
Scientific evidence can be misleading if it’s not put into the proper perspective. A recent classic example: The fear generated when some animal studies showed [...]
We were very pleased to hear last week from Meg O’Brien, Ph.D., director of the Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative (GAPRI) of its collaboration [...]
A young man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma went from being unable to get up and go to the toilet, to taking a “sprightly” walk. Others patients [...]
The celebrated 19th century physician Oliver Wendell Holmes included morphine (poppy) among the very few medicines which should be retained by the medical science of [...]
On Saturday, January 28, Pallium India-USA and the community of Silicon Valley, California were honored with a special guest. Pallium India chairman Dr. M.R. Rajagopal [...]
Stories of end-of-life are often poignant, occasionally dramatic, and sometimes humorous. This week, we spotted an article in the New York Times that encompassed all [...]
There are many misconceptions about opioids and their use in palliative care. A recent article in The Hindu about a palliative care unit in Bangalore goes a [...]
What kind of world do we we live in? Purely due to misapprehensions, ignorance and callousness, we force people into a living hell! Artur, a man [...]
