Charity Marie Curie revealed 'harrowing' findings, with more than half of nurses quizzed saying they'd treated patients in ...

More than half of nurses have treated patients receiving end-of-life care in corridors or other makeshift spaces, a damning ...

Maintaining activities of daily living (ADLs) is important for terminally ill cancer patients, and dependency is associated ...

For many who go home in hospice care to die, death is neither immediate nor quick. Some, like President Jimmy Carter, live ...

LAST month, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia made a decision of huge consequence. It ruled that terminally ill cancer patients have a constitutional right to treatments that have ...

Researchers analyzed decision-making patterns among California physicians who elected not to participate in the state’s medical aid in dying program.

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawmakers at the Michigan State Capitol are considering a bill package that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives ...

An Anaheim woman has pleaded guilty to running a Medicare hospice fraud scheme that submitted more than $2.2 million in claims for patients who were ... Read More ...

TERMINAL patients will be able to visit special places one last time thanks to a Scots charity. A group of paramedics in ...