Hinds Hospice is celebrating 40 years of upholding the dignity of terminally ill patients in the Central Valley. Hinds Hospice founder Nancy Hinds has been given a calling...

Visions and vivid dreams are end-of-life experiences that are seldom talked about. They often include reunions with deceased loved ones — and can provide dying patients with profound comfort...

It’s been a year of incredible progress for Joliet Area Community Hospice—a new addition, a new building and in the next month, a new name and brand. The 40-year-old organization will transition to Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care beginning April 12. Lightways will continue to be nonprofit, independent and based in Joliet...

There is currently no consensus on what quality end-of-life care for children with cancer looks like, or how to measure and deliver it; however, investigators recently assembled an expert panel to help fill this void...

While telehealth can increase access to care, its benefits should be balanced with remote care’s
potential to increase nurses’ workloads, researchers said in new study. Nurses performed about
twice as many activities with telehealth patients compared to in-person patients, according to
University of Missouri researchers’ analysis of nearly 800 nursing activities performed for Type
2 diabetes and hypertension patients.

Roughly half of pharmacists in the nation's seventh most populous state say they do not have adequate time to complete their job safely, according to a report released by Ohio's pharmacy regulator Tuesday...

The Parkinson's Foundation today announced an additional $10 million investment in research, care and education programs to make life better for people with Parkinson's disease (PD)...

The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have begun collaborating on an initiative to increase access to hospice and palliative care for cardiac patients...

Policies designed to prevent the misuse of opioids may have the unintended side effect of limiting access to the pain-relieving drugs by terminally ill patients nearing the end of their life, new research led by the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy suggests...