Palliative Care

The Daily Checkup: Ways of pushing pain aside (New York Daily News)

9 Jul 2008

A geriatrician and internist at Mount Sinai Medical Center since 1983, Dr. Diane Meier conducts research, teaches, does policy work and provides care to patients, all in the field of palliative care.

Manitoba/National News (Portage Daily Graphic)

8 Jul 2008

OTTAWA — The number of aging and elderly inmates has swelled by 20 per cent in the past five years, placing a “strain� on Canada’s prison system trying to provide the jailed geriatrics with adequate health care, wheelchairs and accessible cells.

European Medicines Agency Approves Relistor The First-In-Class Treatment Of Opioid-Induced Constipation (OIC) In ... (Medical News Today)

8 Jul 2008

First-in-Class Treatment set to Provide a New and Important Targeted Treatment for Distressing and near Universal Side Effect in Patients Receiving Opioids for Pain Relief as Part of Palliative Care Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, announced that it has received EMEA marketing approval for Relistor(TM) (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection.