Hallucinogenic drugs known as psychedelics have generated great enthusiasm within the scientific community for their potential to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression and other mental health diagnoses...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed 2024 home health rule includes plans to implement a hospice Special Focus Program, but some stakeholders contend that some aspects are flawed...

Known as “wind phones,” they are meant to carry the griever’s words to the wind in phone booths or isolated swaths of forests...

...regulators here are now developing rules to govern the new industry, from licensing workers in the space to product testing and compliance...

The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited list of the first 10 medicines that will be subject to price negotiations with Medicare...

Joliet hospice recently held its annual four-day camp with 27 children who experienced a death in their families...

Hawaii Care Choices will reopen its Pohai Malama Care Center facility in Hilo in the next few months as the care provider celebrates its 40th anniversary...

Mr. Carter’s decision to enter hospice and to continue publicizing that choice is a fitting final gift of candor from a former president to an American public that has long been uncomfortable with our own mortality...

Effective cooperation between palliative care clinicians and ethicists should be encouraged, in order to integrate in particular the crucial ethical issues of continuous deep sedation until death when developing or updating clinical practice guidelines on palliative sedation...