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For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer treatments, or to stop treatments and prioritize a more comfortable passing. What a patient wants, however, ...
Mar 1, 2025
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A UT Southwestern Medical Center quality improvement team led a large-scale, multispecialty project in partnership with the Parkland Center of Innovation and Value to help patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...
Feb 26, 2025
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Research led by Lancaster University has revealed that the exceptional circumstances early in the COVID-19 pandemic led to distressing experiences of death and dying in care homes.
Feb 25, 2025
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Despite considerable efforts to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the United States, a new retrospective study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers revealed that close to half of patients with advanced ...
Feb 21, 2025
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The UK parliament's assisted dying bill recently passed its second reading in the House of Commons, with 330 votes in favor and 275 against. But the bill still has several hurdles to overcome before it becomes law. It is ...
Jan 22, 2025
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When facing a cancer diagnosis, patients often hear the term "palliative care" but may not fully understand what it means. Palliative care is all about improving quality of life and providing patients with an extra layer ...
Jan 2, 2025
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Palliative care, an approach to care that helps people manage pain and other symptoms during all stages of a serious illness (not just at end of life), can help improve quality of life for stroke survivors as well as their ...
Dec 16, 2024
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"I can totally relate to tiredness of life. Guess what? I saw a beautiful sunrise yesterday morning, acknowledged it, and couldn't care less if I saw another one."
Nov 27, 2024
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Hospices are increasingly owned by private equity firms and publicly traded companies, but recently Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that they performed substantially worse than hospices owned by not-for-profit agencies. ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Earlier this month, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released news reports highlighting some of the reasons Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAiD, which in Canada involves euthanasia—meaning medically-administered ...
Oct 27, 2024
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