Quality communication about end-of-life care ensures that medical treatments or interventions align with patients’ values and ...

As New York expands the legal framework for end-of-life choice, it must also ensure hospice remains strong, offering the ...

Access to quality end-of-life care can mean the difference between comfort and distress in a person’s final days. Yet, millions of Americans still struggle to receive the end-of-life care they deserve ...

Informed Consent and Decision Making Among Participants in Novel-Design Phase I Oncology Trials We must ensure that the 20,000 US children (age 0 to 19 years) who die as a result of serious illness ...

WPTV listened to a 'death doula', or end-of-life doula, who explained how she's working to make death less scary and ease the ...

Life is full of developmental stages, from prenatal to early childhood, adolescence, and middle and late adulthood. What’s often left out of the equation is death and dying, according to Karen Wyatt, ...

Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care, an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested. Palliative care initiated earlier than 3 months before ...

As a physician dedicated to supporting patients and families through some of the most challenging times in their lives, it’s clear that optimal end-of-life care involves more than simply keeping ...

For patients with advanced leukemia, access to high-quality end-of-life care appears to be reduced in those dependent on blood transfusions, according to a new study being presented during the 59th ...

Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think ...

End-of-life planning is an important step to take to help you prepare for your future. What is end-of-life planning? End-of-life planning is the process of thinking about and documenting what you’d ...