Palliative Care News

AS a year of special celebrations draws to an end, Acorns Children's Hospice has thanked people living in Worcestershire for raising more than A 10.5 million during the charity's 25 years.

A new review says palliative care's association with end of life has created an "identity problem" that means the majority of patients facing a serious illness do not benefit from treatment of the physical and psychological symptoms that occur throughout their disease.

For those who always end up with a pile of unwanted Christmas presents this time of year, there is a solution.

Reprising the emotional debate of 2012 when voters rejected a ballot question that would have legalized the prescribing of lethal drugs to terminally ill patients, a legislative committee on Tuesday heard testimony from supporters and foes over whether lawmakers should reconsider.

Hospice in assisted living centers is a quality option, just as in a person's own home, the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association says.

New Tecumseth council approved drawing $20,000 from the Hydro Electric sale reserve fund to donate to Matthews Hospice in 2014.

Although the vast majority of physicians participating in a multiregional study indicated that they would personally enroll in hospice care if they received a terminal cancer diagnosis, less than one-third would discuss hospice care early in the course of treating a terminally ill cancer patient.

Researchers found doctors who said they would opt for care aimed at preventing pain and suffering at the end of their own lives were more likely to discuss that type of care with a hypothetical dying patient.

As Mike Kelley stroked his cat Andy for the last time, he recalled how the feline would eat yogurt every morning and meet him at the door every night.

WOMEN'S choir Musicality will perform a charity Christmas concert for Herriot Hospice Homecare at Richmond Town Hall on Thursday, December 19 at 7.30pm.

Requests for Single Reprints: Richard J. Lin, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, Box 130, New York, NY 10065; e-mail, ril9016@med.cornell.edu .

'It is as illogical to discredit the LCP because of errant clinicians as it is to ban the Highway Code because of bad drivers.'

When Dr. Tim Ihrig crosses the threshold of the Avelleyras home in Fort Dodge, Iowa, he steps over a doormat that says, "One nice person and one old grouch live here."

Children's Hospice South West in Charlton Farm was given a grant of A 1,738.00 on December 11, from the organisations national charity, the Freemasons' Grand Charity.

PATIENTS at St Richard's Hospice are getting into the festive spirit thanks to a special donation of Christmas trees from Webbs Garden Centre in Wychbold.

Dr. Philip Hess, 75, died Nov. 21, 2013. Longtime Charlotte heart surgeon with the Sanger Clinic at Carolinas Medical Center.

Hospice Rainbows has more than one cause to celebrate the winner of the X Factor at last night's final.

A CHARITY which provides palliative care to cancer sufferers - as well as a host of other services throughout the Dungannon area - has revealed there is a shortfall in its fundraising target for 2013.

The surreal sight of more than 300 Santas jogging through Midsummer Common greeted any early risers out Christmas shopping on Sunday.

It took six days for the patient to die. She was 48 years old, with curly blonde hair and no signs of the physical wasting away that so often occurs with advanced cancer.