HOSPICE Casa Sperantei – reaching the scattered homes
EAPC Blog
Cristina Ghiran, Patient Services Director for HOSPICE Casa Sperantei in Brasov, Romania, explains how the hospice team supports patients and families in rural communities.
Palliative care
Radio România Internaţional
Article about the need for palliative care and the Casa Sperantei Hospice Association.
Bruce Davis Gold Medal in Palliative Medicine 2014
Pallium India
Applications are open for the Bruce Davis Gold Medal for young doctors, launched by the Institute of Palliative Medicine in 2005 with the aim of improving awareness about palliative care among doctors in India.
Americans of all ages divided over doctor-assisted suicide laws
Pew Research Centre
Article highlighting findings of a 2013 Pew Research survey on assisted suicide, in the light of recent press coverage of Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman with terminal brain cancer, who plans to take her own life.
Why we shouldn’t be scared to death to have ‘that’ conversation
Huffington Post blog
“Dealing with end of life matters is one of the most challenging and uncomfortable conversations to have. Yet, when done properly, it can empower and engage the individuals who need it most, resulting in improved physical and emotional well-being.”
Exposure therapy appears helpful in treating patients with prolonged grief
Medical Xpress
Cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure therapy, where patients relive the experience of a death of a loved one, resulted in greater reductions in measures of prolonged grief disorder than CBT alone.
Is evidence-based medicine in palliative care doing more harm than good?
Australasian Science
“Stringent regulations govern what is administered to us in the prime of our lives, but different values seem to apply when it comes to the terminally ill and the dying,” writes Dr Natalie Cutri, clinical researcher at Flinders University.
Improved data reveals higher global burden of tuberculosis
World Health Organization
Recent intensive efforts to improve collection and reporting of data on tuberculosis (TB) are shedding new light on the epidemic, revealing that there are almost half a million more cases of the disease than previously estimated.
Ebola: WHO emergency team holds talks on travel curbs
BBC News
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee is holding talks to discuss the Ebola epidemic.
Grassroots campaign launched to challenge Ebola stigma
ehospice Africa
A new grassroots online campaign has been launched aiming to challenge the growing stigmatization that West Africans are facing around the world as the Ebola crisis continues to grip the region.
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