http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A pioneering study in Tayside working with community nurses and terminally ill patients has produced a standardised care package which researchers say could be a valuable aid for the NHS and other health systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-pathway-dignity-patients.html Health Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:27:53 EST news278929668 France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death" for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-france-legalise-deaths.html Health Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:42:28 EST news275049742 His views follow media criticism of the pathway that is designed to help doctors and nurses provide quality care for dying patients. Newspaper reports say doctors are establishing "death lists" of patients to put on the pathway and have accused hospitals of using it to kill terminally ill patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-liverpool-pathway-life-doctor.html Health Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:06:24 EST news270871564 Family members who care for terminally ill patients at home can be helped by nurses throughout the course of the illness and particularly after the patient's death, according to Penn State nursing researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-nurses-caregiver-grief.html Health Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:55:40 EST news266997320 Interventions can buffer caregivers of terminally ill patients from the significant stresses they face in providing care to a loved one, a new evidence review finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-easing-distress-caregivers-dying-patients.html Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:00:01 EST news227349889 Attitudes toward end-of-life care for cancer patients vary, but most patients, family members, oncologists and members of the public are receptive to withdrawing futile life-sustaining treatments in people who are dying, found a Korean study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-attitudes-end-of-life-survey-cancer-patients.html Cancer Mon, 30 May 2011 14:48:24 EST news225985692 A new survey of hospice care in the United States says that the rapidly growing role of for-profit companies in providing end-of-life care for terminally ill patients raises serious concerns about whose interests are being served under such a commercial arrangement: those of shareholders or those of dying patients and their loved ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-for-profit-hospice-industry.html Health Wed, 18 May 2011 11:09:11 EST news224935741