Palliative Care

Nurses have identified an urgent need for Australia to have a serious and comprehensive conversation about supporting individual patient choice when it comes to end-of-life

Patients diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of lung cancer called malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) do not have an improved quality of life if offered additional

A higher proportion of the Australian population is going to hospital for end-of-life care than ever before. New data released by the Australian

A NSW woman suffering from motor neuron disease has given her backing to a new bill that could allow terminally ill patients to end their lives.

Euthanasia is not the "panacea" to improving end-of-life care as the "media frenzy" suggests, says US bioethicist Dr Ezekiel Emanuel.

Advances in medical technology have fuelled unrealistic expectations of the healing power of hospital doctors, says an Australian research fellow.

Patients who die at home under palliative care have the same or longer survival time than those in hospitals, a Japanese study says. Cancer

Australia has come in overall second in the 2015 Quality of Death Index, which looks at palliative care, but current policies may change this.

California's governor has signed into law a bill that allows euthanasia for terminally ill patients, the fifth US state to do so. California

Victoria will investigate end-of-life options with a parliamentary inquiry set up to report by March next year. Voluntary euthanasia and palliative