In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced a $75 million gift to San Francisco General Hospital. The grant helps fund c...

NITI Aayog suggests a dedicated policy framework for India's growing ageing population. It calls for regulating the caregiving ecosystem an...

In its report, released on Wednesday, the Aayog has called for promoting financial incentives and entrepreneurship for caregivers to make i...

In India, countless individuals endure unnecessary suffering due to a lack of understanding and access to palliative care. This essential s...

A parliamentary panel has urged for broader price controls on cancer drugs, noting that many remain unaffordable. The committee recommends ...

Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai has launched a weekly clinic to guide individuals in creating living wills, following the Supreme Court's 2018 r...

Johns Hopkins University and the Ajit Isaac Foundation partnered to establish palliative care centers in underserved areas of India. The co...

The Supreme Court asked the Centre to respond to a PIL seeking the inclusion of palliative care in the national health program. The bench, ...

Pratithi Investment Trust People Tree has so far dealt with the lives of more than 2,00,000 people in Bengaluru, TMI Healthcare said in a p...

In a first, a core committee formed by the hospital will facilitate a dignified dying process for patients who are at their end of life

The announcement comes days after Bengaluru-based Portea said it had introduced specialised and critical care services, including critical ...

He started volunteering at Karunashraya, which provides free professional palliative care for advanced-stage cancer patients. Meeting likem...

Girish Gokhale, a senior lawyer assisting ELICIT in preparing the draft bill, said that instead of using the term right to die he would put...

Simha says withdrawing futile medical interventions must be permitted and suitable laws must be framed, leaving no scope for multiple inter...

According to an UNFPA report, the number of people over 60 years of age in India will increase from 100 million in 2011 to 300 million by 2...

In circumstances, where the individual affected is not in full control of information regarding his or her illness, legalising euthanasia i...

The amendment essentially scraps the long list of licences required to obtain and store morphine sulphate by drug makers and hospitals.