Aetna ran a more modest concurrent-care program for a broader group of terminally ill patients.
The hospice has a 20-bed care unit and support workers who help terminally ill patients in their own homes.
Terminally ill patients cannot always get adequate pain medication because doctors may fear prosecution by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
So much so that even a building housing terminally ill patients, who wait for death in this holy city, is not spared.
The first clinical study of LSD in over 35 years, also on terminally ill patients, is expected to finish this summer.
Montana's Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of physicians helping terminally ill patients could be considered part of medical treatments.
There was a doctor on one of the videotapes who said way too much is being spent on caring for terminally ill patients.
Although elderly patients may qualify for a variety of Medicare-paid services, hospice care is supposed to be limited to terminally ill patients receiving palliative care.
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It is "completely wrong" for terminally ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted, a health minister has said.
Eventually, Mr Caplan says, terminally ill patients will feel subtle yet clear pressure from family members or others to end their lives in order to save money.
Mrs Weaver, 78, does not know if her husband agreed to be put on the care pathway, under which doctors can stop treatment for terminally ill patients.
In New Jersey, a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication for terminally ill patients wishing to take their own lives cleared an Assembly committee Thursday.
The money is paid if the hospital meets targets in training nurses in palliative care in the eight wards where there are the the most deaths, and in identifying terminally ill patients.
So AstraZeneca followed the time-tested approach for cancer drugs: It had initially tested Iressa on terminally ill patients with various cancer types, hoping for hints as to which tumors might be most vulnerable.
Moved by the pain and suffering of terminally ill patients, the doctor gave up his job as an anaesthetist to set up a ground-breaking palliative care system that has now spread across the state.
The claims have highlighted cases in which families have said their children have received palliative care - treatment to relieve pain but not cure, which is often given to terminally ill patients - when they believed they could have recovered.
He believed that if he was acquitted, prosecutors could no longer come after him for helping terminally-ill patients die.
CanSupport, in New Delhi, provides free care for terminally ill cancer patients.
Relatives of terminally-ill patients would have to be consulted before a decision to withdraw food or water is taken, under new government proposals.
Health minister Norman Lamb said this week that it was "completely wrong" for terminally-ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted.
Psilocybin has shown promise in treating forms of OCD that are resistant to other therapies, in relieving cluster headaches (a common form of chronic headache) and in alleviating the anxiety experienced by terminally ill cancer patients.
The indictment alleges that Caramadre and Radhakrishnan made misrepresentations to terminally-ill and elderly patients and their family members in order to obtain their personal identity information.
The latest figures from Oregon show 27 terminally ill people, mainly elderly cancer patients, used the assisted suicide law last year, up from 16 in 1998.
Doctors at the BMA's annual conference in Liverpool this month voted overwhelmingly against supporting a motion "allowing the choice of an assisted death by patients who are terminally ill and who have mental capacity".
He said he began advocating for the right to help terminally ill people die after listening to his patients.
One big one: enrolling patients who are not terminally ill, or at least not likely to die within the six-month window Medicare requires.
Golden Gate National Senior Care LLC dba Golden Living et al , the government contends that AseraCare Hospice knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare for hospice care for patients who were not terminally ill.
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But patients can take the initiative to find a family with a terminally ill loved one and have them consent to donate that person's organs after he or she has died -- an option the Flood sisters are exploring for Pearce.
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