No Relief: In India, a Quest to Ease the Pain of the Dying
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Although India produces more for the legal morphine industry than any other country, few Indians benefit.
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India&#39;s worst chemical disaster in history continues to haunt citizens twenty years later. More than a hundred thousand Indians still suffer from health problems.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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Herb-infused cloth is becoming popular with India's stressed urban workers seeking seek cures for conditions such as insomnia and eczema.
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PATTINACHERRY, India -- From deep inside his shirt pocket, the head of the local village council withdrew several business cards. One, from a Christian organization, was emblazoned with a crucifix and a picture of what seemed to be a priest. Another is from Art of Living, a spiritual group headed by India's popular new-age guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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Traditional drugs have done little to help Angel Raich, 39. Beset by a nightmarish list of ailments that includes tumors in her brain and uterus, seizures, spasms and nausea, she has been able to find comfort
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Mysore, Jan. 28 (DN)- The initiatives and the voluntary involvement of individuals for noble cause of lessening the burdens of the deprived sections of the society does not necessarily limit to its own place by ...
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CUDDALORE, India -- The buzz of grim conversation in the darkened morgue was broken by a man's shriek as the small body was lowered on a bed. "My son, my king!" wailed Venkatesh, hugging the limp shrouded bundle.
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JANDI MERIAH, Indonesia -- Dowes Ginting, the most wanted man on Sumatra island, lay dying. He had abandoned the hospital where he had seen his relatives succumb one after another, and he had fled deep into the mountains, trying to outrun the black magic he feared had marked him next. For... When...
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- They were supposed to be relaxing on the beach or playing a round of golf on yet another sunny day of vacation on their refuge from the harsh winter of Norway. Instead, Leif Giske and his wife stood on the concrete driveway of a hospital amid the stench of corpses at an overflow morgue.
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For people with chronic pain, relief comes with a tradeoff.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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NEW YORK  - While supportive care to  relieve symptoms is now the standard of care at the end of  life, a new study shows that a "sizeable proportion" of breast  cancer patients nearing death do not have access to such  treatment, also referred to as palliative care.
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FARIDABAD, India -- Ashok Gupta's modest plastic-packaging factory is the oldest in town, and its age shows. The root of all his problems is electricity.
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Survivors of the tsunami in South Asia face a long, fairly predictable list of threats to their health.