Emanoel Lee Prize 2014 awarded for account of palliative care work placement in Malawi
Green Templeton College, Oxford
Clinical Medicine student Rachel Carey has been awarded the Emanoel Lee Prize 2014 for her account of three months working at the Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Centre in Salima, near Lake Malawi in Malawi.
Mission palliative care in Bengal
The New Indian Express
Three Keralite Civil Service officers will soon add a new chapter in palliative care in rural West Bengal, inspired by similar initiative in their home state.
Hospice kit buckets bring comfort in Africa
The Baptist Standard
Baptist Global Response has been distributing hospice kits in Africa, containing an assortment of medical and hygiene supplies, as well as comfort items, packed neatly into a five-gallon bucket.
Race affects opioid selection for cancer pain
HealthDay
Racial disparities exist in the type of opioid prescribed for cancer pain, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Measuring what matters
AAHPM and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) have partnered on Measuring What Matters (MWM), a consensus project aimed at identifying a recommended portfolio of cross-cutting performance measures for all hospice and palliative care programs.
Living with cancer: a tour of hospice
The New York Times Well blog
Susan Gubar, who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, writes about her “field trip” to a hospice to find out what it is really like.
Why procrastinate on the issue of euthanasia?
The Indian Tribune
Sunil Garodia on the euthanasia debate currently going on in India.
New guidelines stress increasing key populations’ access to HIV services
WHO
Countries need to remove legal and social barriers that prevent many people from accessing services for HIV testing, treatment and care, according to new WHO guidelines.
Paediatric postgraduate curriculum in India to include palliative care
ehospice International children’s edition
The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in India announced last month that Paediatric Palliative Care will be added as a component to the Postgraduate Course for paediatricians from the 2014 – 2015 academic year.
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