Editor's note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series on palliative care, health policy, and health reform. The series features essays adapted from and drawing on an upcoming ...

Future family nurse practitioner Parag Raychoudhury considers her college’s emphasis on palliative care training as essential. “Palliative care isn’t just about death and dying,” she said. “Any ...

The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as care that, improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through ...

The authors of this innovative curriculum assert that interprofessional education is necessary to prepare students of the health professions for successful practice in today's healthcare environment.

A pregnant mother’s 20-week ultrasound often brings feelings of elation and anticipation as she learns the baby’s sex or sees the baby move in her belly. But when that ultrasound shows a heart defect ...

Canada's 2016 law on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) spurred great interest in efforts to provide alternative treatments that help people cope with terminal illness. Changes in the nation's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There remains a negative stigma regarding palliative care among patients that persists even after positive ...

Palliative care in India is often limited to cancer and end-of-life care. Challenging this perception, Dr Eric Borges, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Incorporating palliative care into a hematology/oncology fellowship improve fellows’ knowledge and confidence ...

Some anti-euthanasia activists see the bill as a Trojan horse that would fund training in assisted-suicide techniques. Here’s why they’re wrong. When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the ...