Integrating AYUSH into palliative care

Integrating AYUSH into Palliative Care

Marcia Angell in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998 stated “There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work. Once a treatment has been tested rigorously, it no longer matters whether it was considered...

Integrating palliative care into nursing homes.

Integrating palliative care into oncology care: confronting the barriers.

Palliative care is increasingly recognized as an essential component of quality oncology care. Despite growing evidence to support the role of palliative care in the oncology setting,[1] the integration of this complementary specialty into standard oncology practice has been slow to evolve. In their article, Drs. Ramchandran and Von Roenn describe palliative care and its role in oncology, as we...

Vietnam: integrating palliative care into HIV/AIDS and cancer care.

Vietnam is struggling to meet the growing need for both disease-modifying and palliative care for people with life-threatening chronic diseases such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. Recently, Vietnam initiated rapid development of a national palliative care program for HIV/AIDS and cancer patients that builds on existing palliative care programs and experience and integrates palliative care into standar...

Integrating Palliative Care Into Oncology: A Way Forward.

BACKGROUND Patients with cancer have complex physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs that evolve throughout their disease trajectory. As patients are living longer with a diagnosis of cancer, the need is growing to address the morbidity due to the underlying illness as well as treatment-related adverse events. Palliative care includes treating physical symptoms as well as addressing psychos...