Hospice and palliative care providers can benefit from understanding federal and state laws around the use of psychedelics by serious and terminally ill patients.

Medical marijuana can safely reduce cancer pain, and is apparently so effective that patients wind up taking lower amounts of opioids and other pain meds, a new study reports...

Findings from new research at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston dispel policymaker fears that adding more recipients to the Medicaid program by using alternative eligibility criteria would bankrupt the program...

Houston discovered that Mississippi’s medical cannabis law, enacted in 2022, makes no mention of pharmacists and the role they will play in the dispensing of medical cannabis.

While additional studies are needed to understand which kinds of medical care are best delivered by telemedicine, there is evidence demonstrating many advantages of telemedicine...

Fully 80% of adults aged 50 to 80 years said they would be willing to stop one or more of their long-term prescription medicines if their clinician approved the action...

Today, Mr. Koutsoumpas, 69, is one of America’s leading advocates for better end-of-life care...

NC—Teleios Collaborative Network announced the addition of NWKareS to its Network. Since 1982, NWKareS has provided comfort and compassionate care to persons in northwest and north central Kansas...

Lax regulation of hospice agencies, with no standard for adequate care and a payment system that is easily gamed, has made it possible for-profit and PE-owned companies to commit widespread fraud, abuse & neglect of sick and dying patients...