Joliet, Illinois-based Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care has nearly tripled the capacity of its pediatric palliative care program, expanding in geography, staff, and patient census...

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has received a gift of $1.92 million from the Carl F. Braun Trust to support a three-year research study to measure the impact of using integrative medicine practices to treat children suffering from acute/chronic pain, as well as children who need palliative care...

Lightways, Illinois’ largest nonprofit provider of hospice and serious illness care, recently announced the expansion of its pediatric program to include an additional eight staff members and 80 seriously ill children previously served by the recently disbanded pediatric program at JourneyCare in Barrington...

A federal initiative to reduce unnecessary antipsychotic medication prescribing in long-term care facilities failed to reduce prescriptions in assisted living residents with dementia, a new study of prepandemic data has found...

Proposals to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska will not appear on the November general election ballot after the efforts failed to collect enough signatures, the state’s top elections official said Monday...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reiterated that the agency will not allow hospices to use telehealth to recertify patients after the COVID-19 public health emergency expires...

People who use medical marijuana to treat chronic pain may have a slightly heightened risk of heart arrhythmias, a preliminary study suggests...

Two years of economic recovery brought strong gains to workers at the top and the bottom, but headwinds for those in between. Consider the pharmacist....

There is wide variation by state in the prescribing of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines to hospice enrollees, according to a new study. The findings highlight the lack of evidence-based guidance for end-of-life prescribing, researcher...