Palliative Care 

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  • Opioids in Non-Neoplastic Pain: Are They Necessary?

    The fight against pain of any origin has seen opioids have a more and more important role, in spite of their side effects and the risk of overdosage: according to the CDC of Atlanta, the unintentional overdose of drugs is the second cause of accidental death in the USA, with a responsibility due to [...]


  • Palliative Cares and Quality of Life

    We know that palliative cares are applied to terminal patients when life hope is reduced to very low levels; but when does this stage really start? With the conviction that many physicians send patients to palliative cares too late, some US researchers have examined the effects of these cares when [...]


  • Opioids and their Risks

    The use of opioids trying to control chronic pain is more and more increasing, but, as a consequence, cases of overdose are more and more frequent. Since the risks of overdose have not been described in patients with chronic pain, yet, some researchers in the State of Washington have examined 9940 [...]


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