Past News Archive from our Home Page

• Care at the End of Life is Just Good Medicine
  http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/care-at-the-end-of-life-is-just-good-medicine/1148259
   
• Jane Brody on "What Makes a Good Death" November, 2010
  http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/gg_live/gg_podcast/podcast/jane_brody_
  on_what_makes_a_good_death/
  Podcast:  Host Michael Bergeisen interviews leading researchers and thinkers on the roots of compassion, happiness, morality, and more. Provocative, enlightening, and inspiring.
   
• U.S. Alters Rule on Paying For End-of-Life Planning
  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/health/policy/05health.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss
   
• Why End of Life Planning is Smart, Necessary
  http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/27/schumacher.end.of.life.planning/index.html?hpt=Sbin
   
• Study: Blacks less likely to have Living Wills; medical directives
  http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/2011-01-07-livingwills07_ST_N.htmLong-Term Care: DNR's, AED's, and the Role of the Medical Director (PDF) "published in the Fall 2010 Florida Medical Director's Association's Progress Report, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 20-22."
   
• A Dying Patient Is Not A Battlefield
  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/31/brown.hospice.care/index.html?iref=allsearch#fbid=TtcjM3pE-nx&wom=true
   
• Quality-of-life must start right away
  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/08/ofri.palliative.care/#fbid=TtcjM3pE-nx&wom=false
   
• Conversations To Have With Your Parents
  http://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2010/07/22/106352_conversations-to-have-with-your-parents.html
    
• What is POLST?
  http://rss.examiner.com/x-9696-SF-Senior-Care-Examiner~y2010m7d6-What-is-a-POLST
   
• Studies: End of Life Plans Honored
  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/02/end-of-life-shorttake.aspx
   
• Study Finds Doctors' Orders Help Patients Get Preferred End-of-Life Treatment
  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/July/02/end-of-life-shorttake.aspx
   
• Not Discussing End-Stage Disease Prolongs Futile, Costly, and Painful Care http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/QUA-253119/Not-Discussing-EndStage-Disease-Prolongs-Futile-Costly-and-Painful-Care.html
   
• Many Americans Overtreated to death
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37907548/ns/health-cancer/
   
• Florida State University Center: Critically Ill Patients' Wishes Should Be Doctor's Orders
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/565925/?sc=rsmn 
      
• Physician Ordered Life Sustaining Treatment - POLST
  http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/physician-ordered-life-sustaining-treatment-polst
   
• Florida State University Center: Critically Ill Patients' Wishes Should Be Doctor's Orders
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/565925/?sc=rsmn  
      
• Physician Ordered Life Sustaining Treatment - POLST
  http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/physician-ordered-life-sustaining-treatment-polst
   
• Lawyer chronicles history, evolution of Advance Directives
  http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100619/Lawyer-chronicles-history-evolution-of-advance-directives.aspx
   
• Dr. Murray Feingold: Take care of your future; create a living will
  http://www.lincolncourier.com/lifestyles/health/x265581837/Dr-Murray-Feingold-Take-care-of-your-future-create-a-living-will
    
• Prescription For Change - Be Your Own Death Panel
  http://nwhn.org/prescription-change-be-your-own-death-panel
   
• End-of-Life Care Helps in Emergency Treatment Decisions
  http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100419/End-of-life-care-documentation-helps-in-emergency-treatment-decisions.aspx
   
• Living Wills - Have They Failed?
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sc-fam-0422-senior-health-living-will-20100422,0,1900551.story
    
• Do Living Wills Really Make a Difference
  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/do-living-wills-really-make-a-difference/
    
• Advancements for End of Life Care result in preferred treatment
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-end-of-life1-2010apr01,0,1061353.story
    
• "Press Release" - White House Memorandum; Hospital Visitation
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-hospital-visitation
   
• Oregon end-of-life forms go electronic
  http://www.debian-cd.com/index.php/2010/03/27/oregon-end-of-life-forms-go-electronic/
   
• Approaching the End of Life: Attitudes, Preferences, and Behaviors of African-American and White Patients and Their Family Caregivers
  http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/549
    
• Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life
  http://www.ahrq.gov/research/endliferia/endria.pdf
   
• POLST helps with hard decisions
  http://www.the-signal.com/news/archive/21206/
    
• Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life
  http://www.ahrq.gov/research/endliferia/endria.pdf
    
• End-of-life medical directives directory to go statewide
  http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2009/10/post_21.html
   
• End Of Life Advocates Work To Overcome 'Death Panel' Claim
  http://news.opb.org/article/6020-end-life-advocates-work-overcome-death-panel-claim
    
• National Healthcare Decision Day; Friday, April 16, 2010
  http://www.prlog.org/10592841-national-healthcare-decisions-day-on-friday-april-16th-2010-featuring-polst.html
    
• Improving the Use of Advance Directives
  http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/Article/data/01JAN2010/100119HHN_Weekly_Rozovsky&domain=HHNMAG