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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 ...

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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 ...

Jolly Good in the United States, in partnership with Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has developed a new VR training module in palliative care communication. They came up with the VR ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness. We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease.

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