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We know that palliative cares are applied to terminal patients when life hope is reduced to very low levels; but when does this stage really start? With the conviction that many physicians send patients to palliative cares too late, some US researchers have examined the effects of these cares when they are started immediately after cancer diagnosis.
MedNews (Palliative Care) - Mon, 30 January 2012
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A long-awaited report by the Commission on Assisted Dying recommends an end to the criminalisation of assisted suicide in specific cases. David Holmes reports. The current legal status of assisted suicide in the UK is “inadequate and incoherent”, according to a wide-ranging report commissioned by the influential think tank Demos.
The Lancet (Palliative Care) - Tue, 10 January 2012
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The use of opioids trying to control chronic pain is more and more increasing, but, as a consequence, cases of overdose are more and more frequent. Since the risks of overdose have not been described in patients with chronic pain, yet, some researchers in the State of Washington have examined 9940 patients with chronic pain (prevalently at the back or at limbs) to whom three prescriptions of opioid analgesics had been made in three months.
MedNews (Palliative Care) - Wed, 19 January 2011
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Assisted dying should form part of a good palliative care service for terminally ill people in the United Kingdom, said Ann McPherson, a GP and founder of a new group of medical professionals called Dignity in Dying: Healthcare Professionals for Change.
British Medical Journal (Palliative Care) - Tue, 30 November 2010
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Vivitrol to treat and prevent relapse after patients with opioid dependence have undergone detoxification treatment.
Food and Drug Administration (Palliative Care) - Wed, 13 October 2010
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