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Anchor lead: You can ask for a palliative care consultation yourself, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with troubling and sometimes disabling symptoms of chronic health conditions aren’t offered palliative care, a medical specialty devoted to helping people live best with …
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Anchor lead: How often are palliative care services used for people with different conditions? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who have cancer are offered palliative care, a type of medical care designed to help manage symptoms as well as possible, the …
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Anchor lead: How much euthanasia and physician assisted suicide takes place around the world? Elizabeth Tracey reports How often do people choose euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in places where it is legal? That was the subject of a recent …
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Anchor lead: Even as rates of many cancer types are falling, one keeps rising, Elizabeth Tracey reports Human papilloma viruses cause cancer, and that’s why a vaccine has been developed against the most common cancer causing types. Yet new data …
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Anchor lead: Could a new technique help deliver therapies to the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Our brains are protected from the rest of our circulation by something called the blood brain barrier, but this elegant system keeps therapies from crossing …
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Anchor lead: Are the numbers of people who develop Parkinson’s disease increasing? Elizabeth Tracey reports Parkinson’s disease has a number of symptoms, but perhaps the most distressing is the tremor that accompanies movement, rendering even the most common tasks challenging. …
