PURPOSEIncreasing opioid regulations have resulted in reduced opioid prescriptions, including for cancer pain, despite guideline exemptions. Data after 2017 following the Centers for Disease Control's...

The 2025 Primary Care Scorecard shows that systemic disinvestment in U.S. primary care continues to reduce patient’s access to care and stifle workforce growth.

In this statement, ASCO encourages academic medical centers to change their policies and expectations to enhance and promote the professional fulfillment of academic medical oncologists. The statement...

Explore key findings from CAPC’s literature review on the health care experience of Hispanic patients with serious illness, and their families and unpaid caregivers.

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She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants.

Some older Americans have come to depend on virtual consultations with doctors, covered by Medicare. To keep that option in the future, Congress will have to act quickly.

Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying...

More than 15,000 Revolutionary War Veterans qualified for a pension. Veteran Joseph Winter was one of the unlucky few who did not. Winter lived in a settlement near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania before the ...

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)’s 2024 Serious Illness Scorecard rates each state's capacity to deliver high-quality care to people living with a serious illness. The Scorecard provides a...

A little less than a decade ago, our local hospice and palliative care team decided to attempt what we called a “thickened liquid challenge.” This simple challenge was intended not as a mere one-off t...

A bereaved mother’s case against our grief-phobic culture.

In July 2023, primary health care experts from more than 20 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO), and most agencies within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) met at the Nat...