Just over a decade ago, the World Health Assembly unanimously resolved that palliative care is an ethical responsibility of health systems; however, access to palliative care remains abysmal in ...

Among patients with advanced cancer, individualized opioid management was effective for pain control without increasing doses.

"People have had to go into hospital or palliative care wards to be switched over to another drug … but people [being cared for in the community] don't want to be in hospital." According to the ...

New data suggest that early integration of palliative care is increasingly being used in patients with advanced cancers, but use remains low overall.