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PHILADELPHIA — In this video, Paul Kwo, MD, professor of medicine and director of hepatology at Stanford University, speaks with Healio about the underutilization of palliative care for patients with ...

A new study from Swansea University, UK, using population-scale data, has revealed insights into how people use health and care services in their final year of life and highlights the need for better ...

Palliative care focuses on relieving distressing symptoms to improve the quality of life for individuals experiencing serious illness and their families. Five general stages of palliative care act as ...

Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care, an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested. Palliative care initiated earlier than 3 months before ...

The first scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) that focuses specifically on pharmacotherapy considerations in the palliative management of patients with CVD urges a ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD), the use of palliative care (PC) increased from 2006 to 2012, according to research published in Hepatology. Barret Rush, MD, from ...