Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
Alexandria, VA-- Referrals to palliative care often come too late to improve quality of life for patients with cancer, a new study has found. A survey of family members of people who have died of cancer in Japan found that nearly half of respondents believed that referrals to palliative care were given too late in the course of the illness. ... ...The study, which will be published online Februar...Palliative practice blurs ethical lines, physician says
The use of neuromuscular blockers to stop the appearance of laboured breathing at the end of a patient's life raises ethical concerns and should not be permitted, says a University of Toronto researcher specializing in palliative care.... ..."As we die, our respiratory pattern is altered and we seem to gasp and struggle for each breath," says Dr. Laura Hawryluck, physician leader of the Ian Ander...UCSF Medical Center palliative care experts mentor health care organizations in end-of-life care
UCSF has been named one of six leadership centers in the country for training health care professionals who want to start palliative care programs. These programs deliver high quality care to patients with chronic and terminal illness and their families.... ...Beginning this week, UCSF Medical Center palliative care experts will host health care professionals from California, Nevada, Arizona and...Palliative care for dying children
Palliative and end-of-life care programs for children and young adults can now be designed on the basis of good evidence. A population-based study of hospital care for dying children is published in BMC Medicine this week....... A group of US researchers investigated the hospital care that children and young adults from across Washington State received in their last year of life. Their results s...Purefecta (TM) drinking water purifier from Pall and Kinetico removes pathogens...
East Hills, NY and Newbury, OH -- An estimated seven million people become sick and more than 1,000 die in the U.S. each year from disease-causing microbes in water. While everyone is vulnerable to infection from waterborne pathogens, people with compromised immune systems are at greatest risk. The new Purefecta Drinking Water Purifier, introduced today by Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) and Kineti...Cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials do better when they receive palliative care
(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- Contrary to common wisdom, cancer treatment is not disrupted -- but may be enhanced -- when interventions designed to improve patients' physical, functional, emotional and social well-being are provided during clinical trials, according to a study by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center.... ...The study was presented here Tuesday morning at the annu...Drug blocks opioid side effects: Could improve palliative care
.Methylnaltrexone, a drug designed to reverse one of the most troubling problems caused by opium-based analgesics without interfering with pain relief, is rapidly effective at low doses with no apparent side effects report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 19, 2000, issue of .. .More than 250,000 terminal cancer patients each year take opioids, such as mor...