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Researchers: We gave palliative care patients VR therapy—more than 50% said it reduced pain and depression symptoms
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Researchers: We gave palliative care patients VR therapy—more than 50% said it reduced pain and depression symptoms

by Tobias Loetscher and Gregory Crawford, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople in palliative care are dealing with serious, non-curable illness. Every day can be filled with severe physical, psychological and emotional pain. Palliative care staff work hard to help make patients as comfortable as possible and provide strong emotional support. Meaningful activities can help but...

Vitamin D reduces the need for opioids in palliative cancer
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Vitamin D reduces the need for opioids in palliative cancer

by  Karolinska Institutet Main analysis: forest plots with beta coefficient and 95% CI over the opioid use in the ‘Palliative-D’ study. The intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses include all 244 randomized patients, and the Per Protocol (PP) analysis is based on the 150 patients that completed the 12-week study period (vitamin D 4000 IE/day n = 67 and...