Palliative Care Has a Branding Problem
(MedPage Today) -- Most people with a diagnosis impacting their quality of life intuitively understand how they could use "an extra layer of support." Loved ones need it too. Chronic and terminal disease reverberates through families like the stressors... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - February 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The real doctor behind ITV's latest Covid drama: How Oxford-educated journalist-turned-medic behind Breathtaking led criticism of the Government's handling of the pandemic with scathing tweets while on the NHS frontline
Events in the script are heavily based around the pandemic memoirs of Dr Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor in Oxford who was seconded onto virus-riddled wards. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Early Detection Tests for Mesothelioma Are in Development
Scientists in Australia are developing early detection tests for mesothelioma. The Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute’s new test could potentially save lives. According to ADDRI’s academic and research director Dr. Anthony Linton, the tests will be similar to PCR tests already in use to detect COVID-19.
These new tests can find small amounts of DNA that cause disease. The PCR method, used since the 1980s, allows DNA samples to be studied in a higher level of detail. PCR is the tech behind the beginning of the 1990 Human Genome Project to identify and map human DNA.
“We have identified a...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 13, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Asbestos Exposure Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Doctors/Specialists Mesothelioma Source Type: news
B.C. receives $733M in federal health funding for seniors' care
The funds will help expand home and community care, improve access to palliative and end-of-life services and improve the quality of long-term care, the federal and provincial health ministers announced Monday. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
CAPC Announces the Winners of its New York City Tipping Point Challenge
NYC health care organizations competed to catalyze the spread of skills that will improve health care delivery for people in NYC living with a serious illness. NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has proudly announced the winners in... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 8, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: AWD PDT Source Type: news
CAPC Announces the Winners of its Third The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge
National competition to catalyze the spread of skills that will improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness. NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has proudly announced the winners in the "Clinical Training"... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 7, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT AWD Source Type: news
Three more community nursing standards added to list by QNI
The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) has developed field specific standards for a further three recognised specialisms within community nursing, adding to the six published last year. The new standards are in the fields of health and justice nursing, community learning disability nursing, and palliative and end of life care nursing. A consultation on the draft... Read moreThe post Three more community nursing standards added to list by QNI appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - February 5, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Community nursing Latest news Source Type: news
Africa: Global Cancer Burden Growing, Amidst Mounting Need for Services
[WHO] Ahead of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO)'s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released the latest estimates of the global burden of cancer. WHO also published survey results from 115 countries, showing a majority of countries do not adequately finance priority cancer and palliative care services, as part of universal health coverage (UHC). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 1, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Noncommunicable Diseases Source Type: news
Virtual Reality Relaxation Outperforms Traditional Relaxation in Palliative Care
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 2024 -- Flourishing-Life-Of-Wish Virtual Reality Therapy (FLOW-VRT)-Relaxation, which has a special focus on relaxation, outperforms traditional relaxation for patients in palliative care, according to a study published online... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 31, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Rwanda: Understanding Palliative Care - Why a Mindset Change Is Needed to Address Gaps
[New Times] What do you do when you are told that your loved one has a serious illness or condition that cannot be cured or leaves them with serious complications until death? For many families in Rwanda and the patients themselves, it is a huge dilemma. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Central Africa East Africa Health and Medicine Noncommunicable Diseases Rwanda Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Palliative Telecare Team Aids QOL, Health Status for Chronic Conditions
TUESDAY, Jan. 23, 2024 -- Use of a nurse and social worker palliative telecare team is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in quality of life at six months for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 23, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Ordering Palliative Care Consult by Default Increases Rate of Consultation
MONDAY, Jan. 22, 2024 -- Ordering palliative care consultation by default increases the rate of consultation but does not reduce the length of stay for older hospitalized patients with advanced chronic illness, according to a study published in the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 22, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Morphine for Gaza? Limits of care during genocidal violence - Coghlan R, Smith J, Alser O.
In a 2023 Correspondence, global palliative care professionals made cursory reference to Israel's violence in Palestine to advocate for access to morphine and other palliative medicines in situations of extreme violence and armed conflict. The importance o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Jan 19 2024 This Week in Cardiology Jan 19 2024 This Week in Cardiology
Listener feedback on antiplatelet therapy after PCI, bempedoic acid, off-Label PFO Closure, and palliative care are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week ’s podcast.theheart.org on Medscape (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - January 19, 2024 Category: Surgery Tags: Cardiology Commentary Source Type: news
Palliative Care Works, Even When Delivered By Phone
FRIDAY, Jan. 19, 2024 -- Folks with life-threatening chronic illnesses can receive effective support over the telephone as they manage their condition day by day, a new clinical trial finds.Seriously ill veterans living with lung or heart disease... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
