Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), designed to bolster the field’s shrinking workforce with federal support.

Medical marijuana is touted as a pain reliever, but in U.S. states where it’s legal, prescriptions for opioid or non-opioid painkillers haven’t decreased, a new study finds.

The vital drug is unequally distributed worldwide, World Health Organization officials say in a new report. “Millions of people continue to suffer preventable pain”...

But as baby boomers have turned 65, the age at which they typically qualify for Medicare, substance use disorders among the older population have climbed steeply.

Utah lawmakers rejected a bill this year that would have allowed a few thousand people with chronic, untreatable depression to try psilocybin—the Schedule 1 drug many know as magic mushrooms...

Patients are more likely to create an advance care plan if they receive nurse-led palliative care services versus those who had standard care alone...

One study found that the number of US hospices owned by private equity firms nearly quadrupled between 2011 and 2019...

Some hospice owners have been selling their businesses soon after securing a license. This has prompted federal agencies to pursue new regulations to address the problem.

Healthcare transactions have been “robust” over the past decades, but the past five years or so have been “a particularly active period” with a “spike” coming in 2020 and into 2022 as pandemic effects eased...