palliative care

Colours of your mood

We often talk about our moods in term of colours of the rainbow. Feeling blue, or green with envy? Or…

It is deeply shocking to read the conclusions of Bishop James Jones’s review, that the lives of hundreds of people…

When managing long-term pain in the pain clinic, we rely on all our skills as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and…

Taking fish oil supplements could help reduce the pain of patients with osteoarthritis, a new study in Rheumatology reports. In…

Opioid addiction, fuelled by OTC medication and prescription pain killers, has reached epidemic proportions in the US but is becoming…

Should we always challenge the distorted beliefs of someone with dementia or do inaccurate memories play an important role in…

This month, Marie Curie holds our annual Great Daffodil Appeal and millions of people will wear a daffodil pin and…

I'm happy to be open about the fact that I have incurable lung cancer and I'm also the medical director…

In nursing there are many ways of saying goodbye when the therapeutic relationship ends. Some patients bid a cheery goodbye,…

Enhanced lifestyle counselling prevents cognitive decline even in people who are carriers of the APOE4 gene, a common risk factor…

Christmas trees, candle fumes and smoking Christmas puddings may be festive but they can all make asthma symptoms worse this…

A constituent of cannabis known as cannabidiol could hold promise as a new class of treatment for psychosis, according to…