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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 6 – Lecture 5
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 6 Lecture Number: 5 Lecture Date: 28th November, 2022 Topic: Cancer induced Venous Thrombosis Speaker: Dr. Arjun Pillai Moderator: Dr. Gayatri Palat The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and an expression…
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Nominations invited for an upcoming vacancy in the IAPC’s Central Council Committee
Nominations invited for an upcoming vacancy in the IAPC’s Central Council Committee The IAPC’s next Annual General Body Meeting (AGBM) is scheduled to be held on Saturday, 11th February, 2023, in Bengaluru. The timing of the meeting will be announced shortly. Please note that there is an upcoming vacancy in the IAPC’s Central Council Committee for the post of West Zone (2023-2025). The IAPC invites interested candidates to email the scanned…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 6 – Lecture 4
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 6 Lecture Number: 4 Lecture Date: 21st November, 2022 Topic: Opioids and the immune system: Friend or foe? Speaker: Dr. Kashish Vats Moderator: Dr. Sachin Gunde The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 6 – Lecture 3
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 6 Lecture Number: 3 Lecture Date: 14th November, 2022 Topic: Opioid induced Hyperalgesia Speaker: Dr. Rabiya Razak Moderator: Dr. Seema Mishra The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and an expression of…
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Kindness: A language by which the blind can see and the deaf can hear!
Kindness: A language by which the blind can see and the deaf can hear! – Palliative Care Physician, India The below mentioned short article is based on true life events. I hope that by sharing this, it will provide you with some food for thought! Raghu (name changed), was admitted to our palliative care center as a destitute. He was found under a bridge, in a debilitated condition, with a…
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Palliative care for patients with refractory epilepsy
Palliative care for patients with refractory epilepsy – Dr. Shrikant Atreya, Kolkata Epilepsy is a medical condition that can range from benign, self-limiting seizures to seizures that can be treated medically or surgically or to a medically or surgically refractory condition. Patients with refractory seizures have a complex health condition. The disorder, in addition to causing physical discomfort, also causes cognitive decline and psychosocial distress, which dampen the patient’s quality…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 6 – Lecture 2
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 6 Lecture Number: 2 Lecture Date: 7th November, 2022 Topic: Cancer Pain Syndromes Speaker: Dr. Pratibha Jha Moderator: Dr. Mithilesh Kumar The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and an expression of…
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A great opportunity for Young Researchers in India
BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care provides a great opportunity for Young Researchers in India To encourage and promote young researchers from India in Palliative Medicine, the prestigious BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, has proposed that the research which receives the first prize in oral presentation at this year’s Annual International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON) for publication in keeping with the terms and conditions. It is also exciting…
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IAPC Academy Online Training Program: Series 6 – Lecture 1
IAPC Academy Lecture Series 6 Lecture Number: 1 Lecture Date: 31st October, 2022 Topic: POCUS in Palliative Care Speaker: Dr. Shunmuga Priya I. C. Moderator: Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar The IAPC Academy’s Online Lecture Series are delivered every Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., via Zoom. Those interested to participate in the sessions, are requested to drop us an email at academyiapc@gmail.com along with your name, designation, affiliation, contact number and…
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Poverty and it’s dimensions
Poverty and it’s dimensions – Sr. Hanife MacGamwell, Jodhpur Last month we celebrated the world hospice and palliative care day with brilliant events, reaching out to communities and touching hearts to heal. We also came up with ideas and plans to broaden our work, launched new programs and raised awareness in many different aspects of Palliative Care although we may still have miles and decades to go, to reach a more…
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Love your eyes!
Love your eyes! – Dr. Deepa Kerketta Khurana, New Delhi World Sight Day is an International Day of Awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October. This year’s theme is ‘Love your eyes’. In light of this, I would like to highlight the role and intersection of palliative care and blindness and vision impairment. Visual impairment is a condition when a person has sight loss that cannot be fully corrected…












