As patients near the end of life with a terminal diagnosis, some may decided they will seek medical care only for comfort and not to cure an illness. Care for comfort, rather than a cure is hospice ...

We waited nervously in the lobby of the Ely hospital for a meeting with my dad’s doctor. While we’d learned a day before that Dad — James Sr. — had cancer, we wanted a better idea of how bad it was ...

And we can do better at that. I also think on a broader level, if we’re looking at, you know, Jimmy Carter’s, what we assume his death will be at home, and that’s something that should be achievable ...

DEAR CAROL: My mother is 82 and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She also suffers from mid-stage dementia. A friend of mine who died from cancer received wonderful care from an area hospice, ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “Three Days was Enough” by Dr. Teresa Thomas, Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. The essay is followed by an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Worn out and needing someone to know she was desperate, Jen Bosworth called her mother's physician. The Chicago-area drug counselor had spent two years caring for ...