Look up the “side effects of chemotherapy” on the web and you are likely to find anywhere between 15 to 30 of them listed – [...]
Is there anyone out there thinking on behalf of developing countries? One more state in USA (Washington state) has followed Oregon in legalizing assisted suicide. In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A man on vacation fractures his knee cap. The hospital has no opioids to relieve his pain. A couple of days of agony later, he is [...]
A heartfelt piece published in the New York Times by a mother whose son will die by age three. Emily and Ronan’s story shows, from an emotional [...]
Only 10% of us will die a sudden death. At the end of life, 90% of us will go through a prolonged illness before the [...]
Here is a new development from USA reported by the New York Times, “Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End“: Last week, over the objections [...]
SPOTLIGHT… Stepping Out…Beyond The Window… Eleven families got together at TIPS (Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences) on May 16th, 2010. Families of 11 special people [...]
Reflections on Our Cultural Immersion Course “Four years ago, I lost my mother and my aunt in a road accident. My sisters aged 4, 2 [...]
