Modern medicine can treat and cure countless health conditions, but it can’t always repair the quality-of-life impairments these conditions leave behind. Palliative care is a health care service ...

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients. This is a ...

Advanced liver disease (ALD) occurs when significant scarring causes the liver to lose function. Patients with ALD often have ...

MAHA ELEVATE could open a federal funding pipeline to interventions that can't survive contact with a plausibility filter.

Families should ask detailed questions about coverage, staffing and provider relationships when navigating end-of-life care ...

Advanced liver disease (ALD) occurs when significant scarring causes the liver to lose function. Patients with ALD often have ...

The term palliative care is often misunderstood as being only for those nearing the end of their lives. In actuality, it is a term used for a holistic approach to caring for those living with a ...

Of course being diagnosed with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) feels overwhelming. Between juggling treatments, managing symptoms and side effects, and dealing with the anxiety of a ...

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in March appointed Kristina Newport, MD, as chief medical officer for the organization. Dr. Newport currently serves as chief of palliative care ...

Various medical and therapeutic treatments are designed to promote health and well-being. Many of these therapies attempt to remove illness or address sickness. But at some point in their lives, ...