Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD Without dialysis, people with kidney failure may live only days or weeks.Palliative care focuses on reducing pain and addressing emotional, social, and ...

Early stage stomach cancer typically doesn’t have specific symptoms. But in later stages, the cancer often presents with symptoms ranging from unintended weight loss to jaundice, and usually with a ...

When prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate to nearby lymph nodes and other areas of the body and treatments can no longer slow or stop its growth, you are not alone. Many patients, despite ...

In the last year of life among adults older than age 50, psychological and physical symptoms such as depression and agitation were associated with loneliness, and physical symptoms such as difficulty ...

Greater ability to utilize psychological strengths and social support to adapt during challenging times, measured approximately 2 years before death, was associated with lower end-of-life symptom ...

Treatment with a combination of haloperidol and lorazepam reduced symptoms of agitated delirium, a common end-of-life condition for patients with advanced cancers, compared with haloperidol alone, ...