In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she'd beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or ...
Aug 22, 2024
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Not all versions of Medicare are created equal—and when it comes to end-of-life care, some versions may serve a patient's needs better than others. That's the focus of newly published research by Lauren Hersch Nicholas, ...
Jul 19, 2024
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For patients who are in the final stages of both gradual and sudden terminal illnesses, hospice care can provide safe, comfortable, and dignified care at the end of life. However, many patients, especially those with complex ...
Jul 8, 2024
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With a global increase in the demand for organ transplants, the organ shortage crisis has taken a turn for the worse, as the supply of available organs remains insufficient to meet this growing need. A way to improve this ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Every year, several thousand cancer patients in Sweden risk receiving too little pain relief in the end of life, as the health care system fails to detect that the patients are suffering from pain. When patients cannot verbalize ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Karen Mustian, Ph.D., MPH, a Wilmot Cancer Institute leader, is senior author on a new set of national guidelines for easing fatigue in cancer patients.
May 30, 2024
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A study led by Canadian researchers sheds new light on how to approach decreasing the carbon footprint of our health care system by thinking critically about end-of-life care.
May 9, 2024
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In the 2007 film "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two main characters who respond to their terminal cancer diagnoses by rejecting experimental treatment. Instead, they go on a range of energetic, ...
May 9, 2024
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A survey commissioned by King's College London, and carried out by YouGov, has found that 65% of people across the U.K. are worried about access to palliative and end of life care, and 41% think there is too little NHS resource ...
Apr 30, 2024
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A new study has revealed the increased home death ratio in Japan during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. High population density, large numbers of patients infected with COVID-19, and areas with numerous ...
Apr 25, 2024
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