For patients with advanced cancer, palliative care should start early and be an integral part of treatment, not just something added on near the end of life, according to a new practice guideline from ...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Ad Hoc Palliative Care Expert Panel has developed specific evidence-based recommendations for access to palliative care services for individuals with ...

Palliative care and its definition have continued to evolve during the past 20 years. In 1990, the World Health Organization established one of the first widely used definitions: “the active, total ...

The latest edition of the National Consensus Project's (NCP's) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care has just been released. The guidelines emphasize the importance of ...

Dr. Debra Lundquist, PhD, RN and Dr. Arun Ghoshal, MD, MBBS discuss the new update to the palliative care for patients with cancer guideline developed by an interdisciplinary Expert Panel. They share ...

The time to start palliative care is as soon as a patient's cancer becomes advanced, emphasize the authors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Clinical Practice Guideline Update. The ...

An interview with Dr. Nahla Gafer from Radiation & Isotope Center in Sudan on the Palliative Care in the Global Setting: ASCO Resource-Stratified Guideline. The purpose of this new resource-stratified ...

The National Consensus Project for Palliative Care has updated its "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care," according to an AHA News Now report. The guidelines, which were last ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In past entries of this column, we have written a lot about what palliative care is, the skills that are ...

Most hospitals offer palliative care services that help people with serious illnesses manage their pain and other symptoms and make decisions about their treatment, while providing emotional support ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new opioid guidelines in 2016, I warned in the article “CDC opioid guidelines raise alarms among hospice and palliative healthcare ...