More openness needed in palliative care

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

More palliative care specialists is not enough.

Complementary medicine: is it more acceptable in palliative care practice?

Some complementary health modalities have found a well-accepted place in palliative care. The interdisciplinary nature of palliative care underlies the common acceptance of complementary therapies in this field of care. The experience of the interdisciplinary approach in palliative care may presage current changes in attitude towards complementary therapies in other areas of medicine. Growing c...

More oral health care needed for ageing populations.

Generalist plus specialist palliative care--creating a more sustainable model.

anyone injured by research; and provisions must be made to engage communities throughout the course of research. Routine preexposure prophylaxis in military personnel has resulted in observational studies of AVA in young adults, but additional data from adult populations — from dose-sparing studies, for example — are needed before pediatric testing can be ethically considered. With additional s...