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Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

The New Old Age
By Paula Span
New York Times

Mar 14, 2023

Although studies repeatedly show that most patients want to die at home, 25 percent of the community dwellers and almost 40 percent of the nursing home residents died in hospitals...

CU to Study How Psilocybin Affects Mental Health of Cancer Patients

CU to Study How Psilocybin Affects Mental Health of Cancer Patients

Westword (Denver, CO)

Mar 10, 2023

For the first time ever, the National Cancer Institute is funding a study that will look into psilocybin’s effect on the emotional and mental suffering of terminal cancer patients...

Florida eyes rule change to let doctors OK medical pot via telehealth

Florida eyes rule change to let doctors OK medical pot via telehealth

Tampa Bay Times

Mar 9, 2023

A Florida House panel unanimously signed off on a proposal that would allow doctors to renew patients’ medical marijuana approvals using telehealth...

Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs

Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs

New York Times

Mar 13, 2023

Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States are having difficulty obtaining drugs to treat many conditions...

AARP—Paid caregivers are key to relieving family caregiver burden

AARP—Paid caregivers are key to relieving family caregiver burden

McKnight’s Home Care Daily

Mar 9, 2023

AARP said Wednesday state and federal lawmakers must solve the home care worker crisis in order to take pressure off of an estimated 38 million family caregivers...

NC is close to legal medical marijuana, but it’s leaving an important group behind

NC is close to legal medical marijuana, but it’s leaving an important group behind

By Sara Pequeño, Columnist
Charlotte Observer

Mar 6, 2023

The bill would legalize the use of medical marijuana for 15 conditions, ranging from HIV/AIDs and Crohn’s disease to various versions of end-of-life care...

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Associated Press/Yahoo! News

Mar 10, 2023

Facilitator training is at the heart of the nation’s first statewide psilocybin therapy and wellness program
and is core to the success of the Oregon model...

Oklahoma House advances psilocybin research program

Oklahoma House advances psilocybin research program

Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)

Mar 9, 2023

Oklahoma soon could authorize medical research into psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms.”

RAND Corp.—Families Report Better Care from Nonprofit Hospices

RAND Corp.—Families Report Better Care from Nonprofit Hospices

Hospice News

Mar 3, 2023

The families of patients who received care from nonprofit hospices give their providers higher
marks on quality than those who went with for-profits...

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