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Patients and their families can benefit from advanced symptom management, psychosocial support, and referrals to hospice care from their PPC care team. The timely and standardized introduction of ...

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illnesses. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that each ...

Nearly 8,000 Connecticut children suffer from a serious illness. Nearly all these children could benefit from palliative care, which would help them and their families manage their symptoms and ...

Roughly half of the hospitals in the U.S. offer pediatric palliative care for young children, an increasingly common specialty service, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Contrary to ...

Nurse Practitioner SubspecialtyOpens a new website. Specialized Education Lecture Series BEACON ProjectOpens a new website. PCRP's quarterly self-Care workshops aims to enhance residents’ awareness of ...

With euthanasia rates soaring across the country, Canada’s Catholic bishops are appealing for greater emphasis on palliative care, including better end-of-life training for doctors and a call for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Parents place less importance on disease modification or life extension in their children’s palliative care. The ...

When Dr. Kenneth Pituch walked into the dimly lit neonatal intensive care unit room where baby Viggo Tingstad was masked and tubed in his mother’s arms, he did something somewhat unusual for a doctor.

Efforts are targeting areas believed to be contributors or key drivers of the challenged subspecialty workforce, including ...

“Darwyn’s family experienced unnecessary trauma at a time when they most needed co-ordinated, timely support. Our investigation showed that fragmented pediatric palliative care puts children and their ...