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Most of the world's population lives in Asia. Prevention and detection of cancer, as well as ensuring equitable access to cancer care for all Asians remains a major public health issue and requires governmental involvement and dedicated resources. Palliative care, a medical and nursing specialty, promotes holistic attention to suffering and provides compassionate and interdisciplinary care to t...

Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the greatest challenges of medicine and our civilization. Lack of progress in developing new anti-bacterial agents has greatly revived interest in using phage therapy to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. Although a number of clinical trials are underway and more are planned, the realistic perspective of registration of phage preparations...

Health care professionals experience grief when caring for children with life-threatening conditions. Harriet Lane Compassionate Care, the pediatric palliative care program of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, created an action plan to support health care professionals; one intervention-- the bereavement debriefing session - was specifically aimed at providing emotional support and increasin...

'In the midst of life, we are in death'from The Book of Common PrayerThe Palliative Care, or comfort care, movement in the USA is on the rise. Currently, palliative services are not integrated in an organized way throughout healthcare. If we accept the argument that palliative care is ethically desirable and that all patients are entitled to palliative services regardless of a terminal diagnosi...

Health care consumers are increasingly becoming disillusioned by the inability of mainstream medicine to solve their health and dietary problems in a safe, cost-effective, and compassionate way. Their solution is to turn to alternative (complementary) methods of treatment and prevention. As Eisenburg et al points out, not only are they unlikely to tell their physicians about their use of unpres...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To uncover dimensions of nurses' professional experiences of cancer survivorship. DESIGN Interpretive, phenomenologic. SETTING Metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 25 RNs diagnosed with cancer. Average age was 50 years, and 20 participants were less than five years from initial diagnosis. METHODS Interviews. Data were analyzed using the methodol...

BACKGROUND There is a high rate of burnout among health professionals, driving diverse attempts to promote resilience and well-being to counter this trend. The purpose of this project was to assess the dose-response relationship between the number of hours of online mind-body skills training for health professionals and relevant outcomes a year later. METHODS Among 1438 registrants for online...

Access to medicines is usually given under the regulatory approvals and subsequent coverage decisions, after efficacy and safety have been proven by clinical trials. Recently, systems to enable exceptional early access* have been explored to meet significant, unmet, and urgent medical needs for frontier medicines. In Japan, the Advanced Medical Care B system (AMC-B) is already in operation. Two...

Forrest (2012) outlines the potential challenges inherent in learning lessons from the private sector and adopting good business principles — such as being accountable and cost-effective — while still meeting patients’ demands. There will be a reliance on the positive engagement of staff in delivering these changes — whether in statutory, private or third-sector services. Staff need to be part ...