These statements can oftentimes be heard coming from both families and healthcare professionals and represent the most common misconceptions regarding palliative care. So, what is palliative care and ...

Roughly half of the hospitals in the U.S. offer pediatric palliative care for young children, an increasingly common specialty service, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Contrary to ...

Emily Johnston M.D., MS, assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, was recently named as director of Pediatric Palliative Care Research and Education within the Center for ...

Pediatric palliative care is both a medical/nursing specialty and an approach to care for delivering patient/family-centered care to children with a serious illness and their families. The primary ...

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness. We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease.

Alex* is a 4-year-old girl who loves music and her older brothers. Her mother and grandmother ensure her nails are always painted a bright color to match her vibrant personality, smiles, and laughs.

Canada's 2016 law on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) spurred great interest in efforts to provide alternative treatments that help people cope with terminal illness. Changes in the nation's ...

Palliative care is a specialty people are familiar with in the adult world, but people aren’t as aware that pediatric palliative care is also an important health care service available for children.