Quality communication about end-of-life care ensures that medical treatments or interventions align with patients’ values and ...

The journey toward the end of life brings with it various physical and emotional changes, many of which are difficult for loved ones to witness. One particularly unsettling phenomenon is the "death ...

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering ...

In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...

How you approach end-of-life care for yourself or a loved one is a personal and important decision. You may consider hospice care, a death doula, or both to guide you during this time. Here’s what ...