Palliative care for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) helps you deal with the physical, emotional, and spiritual issues related to your cancer and its treatments. This type of care doesn't slow or ...

When someone has a condition that is difficult or impossible to cure, treatment often focuses on relieving the symptoms and improving the person’s quality of life. This vital form of care is called ...

If you have metastatic, or advanced, breast cancer, you may consider palliative care. This form of medical care treats pain and symptoms and can be given during cancer treatments that aim to cure the ...

Although most hospitals report having a palliative care program, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report highlighted the many ways U.S. hospitals can do better in caring for patients with advanced ...

Randall Krakauer, MD, vice president and national medical director for Medical Strategy at Aetna, who helped design Aetna’s Compassionate Care Program (ACCP) that was launched in 2004, says that its ...

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...

Both palliative and hospice care focus on improving quality of life. Palliative care is available at the time of diagnosis, but hospice care is only available near the end of life. There’s often ...

Despite proven benefits for patients and value for health systems, access to palliative care remains limited due to lack of awareness and workforce shortages. Low reimbursement rates have made matters ...

Lupus is a chronic (long-term) disease that can cause inflammation and pain in any part of your body. It’s an autoimmune disease, which means that your immune system — the body system that usually ...

This article is part of a series on transforming health systems published with support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms ...

A palliative care specialist talked about what his work is like supporting terminally ill children and their families Paediatric palliative care is a type of specialised care that aims to improve ...

If a doctor diagnoses you with a serious illness and suggests palliative care, don't jump to conclusions. It doesn't mean you have mere months to live, NIH News in Health emphasizes. Palliative care, ...