The Rev. Edward F. Dobihal Jr., a minister and civil rights activist, was the leading force in introducing hospice care to the United States in 1973. Though hospice is widely accepted as a gentler ...

Technically, the hospice movement is part of the diverse coalition opposing assisted suicide. But people would be excused for being unaware of the hospice position since the organized movement has ...

The American hospice movement is thriving. Forty-two percent of all Americans who died in 2010 were in hospice care—up from 22 percent in 2000. The number of organizations providing hospice care has ...

Yes, Be Skeptical of Claims That the U.S. Hasn’t Damaged Iran Much Trump’s Anticlimactic China Trip No, California’s Backyard BBQ Ban Proposal Is Not Justified As established by the great medical ...

Hospice is no longer an unfamiliar word. More and more attention is being paid to a process that very few people have been willing to talk about because when you mention the word, you’re talking about ...

One of the beautiful tools of social media is the ability to spread ideas and information at lightning speed. In medicine, a study from 1998 indicated it takes an average of 17 years before new ...

The advancement of the current model for hospice in the United States is credited to British physician Dame Cicely Saunders, who, in 1963, came to Yale University to lecture on the concept of hospice ...

READING recent reports about the Butterwick Hospice (Echo, May 3), I feel I must write in support of the work of the hospice movement and encourage people and businesses to maintain their giving to ...