Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

July 7, 2009 – Palliative sedation therapy used for the control of refractory symptoms in cancer patients with very advanced disease does not hasten death, a new prospective study concludes. The study ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

The use of deep palliative sedation almost doubled from 2001 to 2007 in Flanders, Belgium, according to a research letter published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The trend toward increasing ...

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a ...

Can patients near death safely receive sedation at home, fully respecting their own and their families' wishes? This practice, which is on the rise, is coming under increasing scrutiny and debate by ...

Palliative sedation at the end of life is ethically sound and has “an important place on the continuum of appropriate palliative care,” according to a new review article. It is the intent and outcome ...

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

Patient-Reported Outcomes After Hepatic Resection of Colorectal Cancer Metastases Palliative sedation is a clinical procedure aimed at relieving refractory symptoms in patients with advanced cancer.

Re “Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Drug-Induced Sleep” (“Months to Live” series, front page, Dec. 27): Bravo to The New York Times for its in-depth reporting on palliative sedation. When death ...

Maggie Lanctot describes her daughter Stephanie's last few months of life as "a nightmare of pain that no parent should ever have to witness." Stephanie Lanctot died at the age of 25 on Nov. 27, 2010 ...

The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to ...