A 50 per cent social tariff could lift as many as 54,000 (45%) dying people out of fuel poverty, a report has found.

Tens of thousands of terminally ill pensioners have lost their winter fuel payments ahead of what is likely to be their last ...

Britain’s leading Catholic bioethics organization says there is “widespread confusion” about the issue of legalizing assisted ...

A team at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – the Neuro – has been helping patients suffering from terminal neurological diseases. The Susan Cameron Cook Neuro-Palliative Care Program ...

Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, ...

Marie Curie registered nurse Denise Sinkins, 58, from Cornwall, said she is visiting patients who are living in “crippling” ...

Most worryingly, though, those using assisted suicide in Oregon include patients with anorexia. In fact, while data are limited, at least 60 patients have accessed euthanasia or assisted suicide for ...

"I can totally relate to tiredness of life. Guess what? I saw a beautiful sunrise yesterday morning, acknowledged it, and ...

Legislation allowing terminally ill individuals to legally end their lives through medication is back on the table for next year’s legislative session but with one change – patients would be ...

National Hospice Month is an opportunity to celebrate the tireless work of the hospice professionals who help patients and their families during the weeks and months that they journey with a ...

A ruling that a patient can have an assisted death cannot be challenged by relatives under a proposed new law, lawyers have ...

Millions of people around the world are affected by breast and prostate cancers, the number of new cancer cases continues to ...