Archived News Items
Nebraska Hospice and Palliative Care Partnership Hospice gave couple some husband/wife time.
03/18/2010 - View an article about a Eagle, NE couple who tell about their Hospice journey.
Dying Well by Tom Holmes and Melissa Suran
02/18/2010 - Facing reality head-on, and at home, can make last days not so scary.
Hyperemesis gravidarum
02/18/2010 - Hyperemesis gravidarum, better known to pregnant moms as "morning sickness", can be handled at home.
Planning for End of Life
07/27/2009 - No one likes to think about the end of life, let alone consider questions about how one's final days will be spent. It's important to remember that we have medical choices that weren't available even 50 years ago. Planning for the end of life makes sense
Bone Cement Eases Pain of Late-Stage Cancers
03/09/2009 - Injecting "bone cement" into lesions in patients whose cancer has spread to their bones can literally allow these individuals to rise from their deathbeds and live the remainder of their lives relatively pain-free.
Combo Treatment for Aggressive Brain Tumor May Lengthen Life
03/09/2009 - Treatment with a combination of the chemotherapy drug temozolomide and radiotherapy increases survival for glioblastoma brain tumor patients better than radiotherapy alone, and the improvement persists for up to five years, say Swiss researchers.
Dying Feel Abandoned by Docs in the End
03/09/2009 - When there's no more that can be done for terminally ill patients, and the focus of care turns to keeping them comfortable before death, many feel as if their doctors have abandoned them, new research finds.
A Report Published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine Raises Concern about the Quality of End-of-Life Care in the United States
09/09/08 - Areas with high transfer rates of elderly patients with advanced dementia are more likely to have feeding tube placement.
