In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in
Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language …

Annually, more than 61 million people worldwide experience about 6 billion days of serious
health-related suffering that could be alleviated with access to palliative care and pain relief …

In less-developed countries, opioids such as morphine are often not available for pain relief
because of excessive regulations imposed to prevent their misuse and diversion. We …

Access to palliative care—the prevention and relief of physical, emotional, social, or spiritual
suffering associated with any chronic or life-threatening illness, beginning from the time of …

The burden of serious health-related suffering is huge and could in large part be alleviated
with palliative care and pain relief. About 25· 5 million of 56· 2 million people who died in …

Less than 1% of India's 1.2 billion population has access to palliative care. The efforts by
pioneers over the last quarter of a century have resulted in progress, some of which may …

In India, a million people with cancer and an unknown number of people with other
incurable and disabling diseases, need opioids for pain relief. Only about 0.4% of the …

From a total of 57 million deaths in 2008 (world population 6860 million), 36 million people
died from noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer or cardiovascular disease. 2 …

Background Almost five decades ago, governments around the world adopted the 1961
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which, in addition to addressing the control of illicit …

Everyone who has been in love or built a family knows that there are things, essential things,
that money can't buy. Patients with serious illness and their network of caregivers know this …