Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
You report (21 August) that Audit Scotland has found many patients are being denied palliative care, especially if they are suffering from diseases other than cancer.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Recommended Filmed over the course of 14 weeks at the palliative care unit at the Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre, Dying at Grace documents the last days of Carmela Nardone, Joyce Bone, Eda Simac, Rick Pollard, and Lloyd Greenway. Approached by noted Canadian filmmaker Allan King who wanted to make a film that would unblinkingly explore the experience of dying up close, the five graciously...
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
SAT, testing, gas prices, letters, opinion l.a., palliative care, right-to-die, workers compensation, pedestrians, Hollywood, fake grass
New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Opening of the Gauteng Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care 13 August 2008 Gauteng Health MEC Brian Hlongwa will open a renovated building for Wits Palliative Care at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on Friday, 15 August 2008. Palliative care is an essential part of treatment, care and support for people with illnesses such as cancer, HIV and Aids. It aims to provide comfort, relief of symptoms...
The Covert Rationing Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
In July, the Oregon Health Plan injudiciously sent a letter to lung-cancer patient Barbara Wagner denying coverage for the expensive chemotherapy her doctor had recommended, and offering instead to cover palliative care “including doctor-assisted suicide.” The firestorm of outrage this letter triggered (to see the outrage for yourself, simply Google the search terms “Barbara Wagner” and [...]
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC), the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA) and different organisations from around the world will issue today a Joint Declaration and Statement of Commitment calling for the recognition of Palliative Care and Pain Treatment as Human Rights. The Declaration and Statement have been jointly developed and signed [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Hospice providers and terminally ill patients prepare for worst, Congress urged to act quickly WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced today that it will cut Medicare r...
Bioethics Discussion Blog (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
I pay you money to try and fix my head I lie on your couch reveal what’s in my bed You scribble in your pad 'Patient feels sad' "Just take this medication And if it fails to work Then try a razor" Well, the doctor-patient relationship need not go the way of the Val Emmich’s lyrics in the “Patient Patient”. But all patients should know that there are times when there is no cure and the patient has to...
Paul Uppal (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Yesterday I visited Compton Hospice and met with Ron Middleton (Chief Executive) and Gerard Paris (financial Trustee). The Hospice comprises a purpose built in-patient unit, day centre and education unit. It also provides a multi-disciplinary team approach to palliative care to help patients, relatives and carers. The vast majority of the patients never come to the Hospice but receive [...]
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
A MERSEYSIDE hospice has been named best organisation at the Children’s Palliative Care Awards 2008.
Elder Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
The Detailed Programme of the 17th International Congress on Palliative Care, to be held September 23-26, 2008 at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Canada, is now available on the Congress web site at www.pal2008.com Founded in 1976 under the...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
2. Written Assignment Topic : As a nurse, you are caring for a 79year old man, James, who is receiving palliative care. Discuss the possible sources of distress that James or his family may feel when facing end stage illness. (* "Grief" should be the main topic. Not too much...
7Confessions (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Johnny Depp is 45 years old and still totally hot! Johnny got it all… he is talented, he has a happy family but there is something you can do to make him even happier on this special date… … put on a Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition memorial bracelet (which Depp has been spotted wearing - photos) in honor of the brave kids involved with the organization and the way they've touched...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Welcomes Publication of Final Rule ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time since the Medicare Hospice Conditions of Participation were created in 1983, the r...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
*****Specified pain management project in palliative care***** Clinical project in palliative care practice: A clinical project on pain management of advanced illness and cancer patients (It likes a new orientation package for all new nursing staff who work in a palliative unit to provide pain management for the palliative patient)...
