We sat down with Dr. Ashley Fedusenko to clear up some common questions about palliative care—what it really means, how it’s ...

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

Palliative and hospice care both focus on supporting patients and improving quality of life. Palliative care can start at diagnosis, while hospice care supports patients nearing the end of life.

For many people with cancer and other serious diseases, palliative care is an important element of their journey.

Philippa Cheetham, MD: Dr. Martin, I’m going to bring you in here. Nance’s already told us that she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the lung, and yet despite having a lesion that had spread from ...

Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the ...

"He will not die on your watch." That's what the family of a patient told Sunita Puri when she was a resident in internal medicine. They were chilling words for the young doctor as she took over the ...

Northern Ireland does not have a palliative care strategy. In June 2024, the committee agreed to undertake an inquiry ...

Palliative care can make a huge difference for patients with cancer. Find out if it’s right for you. As science progresses, patients with cancer are gaining access to more therapeutic approaches than ...

Modern medicine can treat and cure countless health conditions, but it can’t always repair the quality-of-life impairments these conditions leave behind. Palliative care is a health care service ...

Yael Schenker's research has been funded by the National Institute of Health, the National Palliative Care Research Center, PCORI, the American Cancer Society, AV Davis Foundation, and the McElhattan ...