The following are recent articles of interest to palliative care professionals. We have included links to any free articles on the Internet. All other articles require a subscription or registration to access.

2011

• Journal of American Medical Association, December 7, 2011, Hospital Palliative Care Programs Raise Grade to B in New Report Card on Access, by Rebecca Voelker
• Hospital & Health Networks Daily, November 30, 2011, Palliative Care Takes Off in New York, by Haydn Bush
• Fort Myers News-Press, November 28, 2011, Lee Memorial among hospitals tending to chronically ill, by Frank Gluck
• Hospital & Health Networks Daily, November 14, 2011, Palliative Care Heads to the ED, by Haydn Bush
• FirstScience News, November 10, 2011, IPAL-EM launches to improve palliative care in emergency medicine
• WebMD, November 16, 2011, Poll Reveals Challenges of Providing End-of-Life Care, by Brenda Goodman, MA
• The Birmingham News, November 3, 2011, Alabama gets a 'D' in care ratings, but UAB is way above curve, by Stan Diel
• Journal Sentinel, October 31, 2011, Medical field looks to comfort the ill, by Guy Boulton
• Times Union, October 27, 2011, Health care model that saves money, by Cathleen Crowley
• Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2011, The costs of palliative care teams, by Melissa Healy
• Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2011, The promise and pitfalls of palliative care, by Melissa Healy
• American Medical News, October 16, 2011, Hospital-based palliative care rises 19%, by Kevin B. O'Reilly
• MedPage Today, October 10, 2011, Nation's Palliative Care Grade Up from 'C' to 'B', by Emily P. Walker
• CBS San Francisco, October 18, 2011, Elderly Get Relief from Palliative Care
• Milbank Quarterly, October 2011, Increased Access to Palliative Care and Hospice Services: Opportunities to Improve Value in Health Care, by Diane E. Meier, MD
• WebMD, October 6, 20111, Nation Gets 'B' for Hospital Support Care, by Daniel DeNoo
• Forbes, October 6, 2011, Palliative Care Expanding in Hospitals, by Howard Gleckman
• Politico, October 5, 2011, Advocates push for expansion of palliative care (subscription required), by Brett Norman
• Kaiser Health News, October 5, 2011, Palliative Care More Common At Some Hospitals, by Jordan Rau
• Modern Healthcare, September 28, 2011, Palliative-care organization releases state-by-state report card, by Paul Barr
• Scripps News, September 28, 2011, Palliative-care access uneven among states, by Lee Bowman
• Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2011, Palliative care comes to the emergency department, by Stacey Burling
• Cincinnati.com, September 25, 2011, Palliative care a vital priority as nation ages, Diane E. Meier, MD
• The Hospitalist, September 7, 2011, Hospitalists See Value in Palliative Care, by Richard Quinn
• Journal of Clinical Oncology, September 7, 2011, , Palliative Care and the Quality of Life, by Diane E. Meier, MD, & and Otis W. Brawley (Subscription may be required)
• The Glencoe Enterprise, September 1, 2011, How Palliative Care Helps Patients, by Diane E. Meier, MD
• US News & World Report, August 2011, Another Way of Healing, by Michelle Andrews (Only available in print)
• The Washington Post, July 25, 2011, Hospitals make palliative care a priority to improve patients' quality of life, by Michelle Andrews
• Boston Globe, July 24, 2011, A Better Kind of Care, by Kathleen Burge
• HemOnc Today, July 18, 2011, Number of palliative care teams more than doubled since 2000, by Jason Harris
• Journal of Clinical Oncology, July 10, 2011, Palliative Care and the Quality of Life, by Diane E. Meier, MD and Otis W. Brawley (Subscription may be required)
• AAMC Reporter, June 2011, A Word from the President: Embracing the Value of Palliative Medicine by Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.
• The New York Times, June 6, 2011, Law on End-of-Life Care Rankles Doctors, by Jane E. Brody
• Delaware Today, June 2011, A Great Comfort: When chronic illness speeds us toward the end of life, some special people can help us live better, by Susan Oats
• AARP Bulletin, June 1, 2011, Pain Management: Palliative care is not what you think, by Karen Rafinski
• Proto, Summer 2011, Palliative Care: More Than Hand-Holding, by Anita Slomski
• About.com, April 2011, What is Palliative Care, with Dr. Nathan Goldstein
• NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 22, 2011, An Oncologist's Pulitzer-Winning Cancer Biography
• Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, April 19, 2011, End-of-life care shifting from hospital to home by Guy Boulton
• The Washington Post, April 18, 2011, Progress needed on end-of-life care by Janice Lynch Schuster
• Trustee, April, 2011 Palliative Care's Positive Outcomes, by Diane E. Meier, M.D., and J. Brian Cassel, Ph.D.
• NPR, March 29, 2011 Many Doctors Still Focus More On Cure Than Managing Pain, by Michelle Andrews
• Hospital Review, March 29, 2011 Palliative Care Still Not Covered, Despite Successes, by Leigh Page
• Kaiser Health News, March 29, 2011 Demand Grows For Palliative Care, by Michelle Andrews
• Health Imagination, March 29, 2011 Advances in Palliative Care May Extend Survival, by Melba Newsome
• The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2011, Critical (Re)thinking, by Melinda Beck
• The Washington Post, March 28, 2011 Hospitals increasingly offer palliative care, by Michelle Andrews
• The Boston Globe, March 28, 2011 Special Needs, special care, by Joanne Kenen
• ACP Hospitalist, March 2011 Integrating Palliative Care into the ICU, by Janet Colwell
• The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2011 Study: Palliative Care For Medicaid Patients Reduces Their Hospital Costs, by Katherine Hobson
• WNYC News, March 8, 2011 More Palliative Care Could Save Hospitals, Medicaid Millions: Study, by Fred Mogul
• GeriPal, March 8, 2011 Palliative Care Consultations: An Answer to Medicaid's Woes, by Eric Widera
• Internal Medicine News, March 4, 2011 Improving Access to Pediatric Palliative Care, by Christine Kilgorea
• Open Mind, February 26, 2011, Palliative Medicine: Care versus Cure?, with Richard Heffner
• USA Today, February 22, 2011 Palliative care prolongs life, reduces suffering, by Liz Szabo
• American Medical News, February 14, 2011 2011 Oncologists shouldn't delay frank talk with patients, by Kevin B. O'Reilly
• Winston Salem Journal, January 29, 2011 Health system needs to change, palliative care expert says, by Paul Garber
• The New York Times, January 4, 2011 U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning, by Robert Pear

2010

• The Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2010 White House Links New End-of-Life Talks to Bush Policy, by Jay Solomon
• Medpage Today, December 27, 2010 Medicare to Cover End-of-Life Planning Talks, by Emily P. Walker
• The New York Times, December 25, 2010Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir, by Robert Pear
• Health Leaders Media 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better - 2010, December 2010 Diane E. Meier: Palliative Care Pioneer, by Carrie Vaughn
• Annals of Emergency Medicine, December 2010 Palliative Care in the Emergency Department: New Specialty Weaving Into Acute Care Fabric, by Joanne Kennen
• PBS Frontline, November 23, 2010 Facing Death
• USA Weekend Presents The Doctors, November 21, 2010 Live Your Life Despite Illness
• Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, November 20, 2010 Study Finds Terminal Care Programs Need Improving, by Guy Boulton
• Miller-McCune, November 16, 2010 For Dying Cancer Patients Geography is Destiny, by Joanne Kenen
• The Washington Post, November 16, 2010 Cancer Patients Too Often Die in Hospitals, Study Says, by Rob Stein
• The Chart, CNN Blog, September 15, 2010 Kids Courageous Facing Death, by Elizabeth Landau
• NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, September 10, 2010 Helping Patients Live Better, Longer, Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports
• MarketWatch, August 31,2010 Why You Should Care about Palliative Care, by Kristen Gerencher
• health AGEnda, The John A. Hartford Foundation Blog, August 24, 2010 Palliative Care: We Still Have a Lot to Learn, by Diane E. Meier, MD
• National Public Radio, August 24, 2010 The Diane Rehm Show
• New York Times, August 23, 2010 Frank Talk About Care at Life's End, by Jane E. Brody
• American Cancer Society, Dr. Len's Cancer Blog, August 20, 2010 The Unexpected Benefits of Palliative Care, by J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD, MACP
• USA Today, August 19, 2010, Palliative Care Can Help Patients Live Longer, by Liz Szabo
• Medscape Today, August 19, 2010 Palliative Care Improved Survival in NSCLC; Study Challenges Current Approaches, by Zosia Chustecka (subscription required)
• Boston Globe, August 19, 2010 Cancer strategy: Easing the burden, by Stephen Smith
• The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2010 Study: Advanced Cancer Patients Receiving Early Palliative Care Lived Longer, by Katherine Hobson
• The Washington Post, August 18, 2010 Study shows value of quality-of-life cancer care, by Marilynn Marchione
• New York Times, August 18, 2010 Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds, by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
• Wellsphere, Bioethics Community, August 7, 2010 New York's Patient Right to Palliative Care Information Act, by Thaddeus Pope
• Slate, August 4, 2010 We Can't Save You: How to tell emergency room patients that they're dying, by Joanne Kenen
• New York Times, August 2, 2010 Feeding Dementia Patients with Dignity, by Roni Caryn Rabin
• The New Yorker, August 2, 2010 Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?, by Atul Gawande
• Fresh Air from WHYY, Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane, intereview with Terry Gross
• Chest Physician, August 2010, Program Aims to Move Palliative Care to the ICU by Mary Ellen Schneidder
• Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2010 Donor of the Day: Targeting Costs of Health Care, by Shelly Banjo
• Health Leaders, July 7, 2010 Protocols Need for Palliative Care at End of Life, by Cheryl Clark
• New York Times, July 1, 2010 Letters: My Father's Broken Heart, by Diane E. Meier, MD
• Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2010 Americans Overtreated to Death, by Marilynn Marchione
• New York Times, June 14, 2010 My Father's Broken Heart, by Katy Butler
• Modern Healthcare.com, May 31, 2010 Easing their Pain. Palliative Care Grows Despite Reimbursement Issues, by Jennifer Lubell (may require registration).
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Press Release, May 10, 2010 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Releases Statement and Commentary on Palliative Sedation Therapy to Promote Greater Understanding.
• Kaiser Health News, May 10, 2010 New Law Could Help Hospice Patients Continue Aggressive Medical Treatments, by Jordan Rau
• Parade, April 25, 2010 One Last Magical Evening, by Gail Sheehy
• Medscape, April 20, 2010 Palliative Care Programs Continue to Increase in American Hospitals, by Roxanne Nelson
• Democracy Now!, March 24, 2010 Palliative Care Pioneer Dr. Diane Meier on How People Struggle with Serious, Sometimes Terminal, Illness
• Medscape Today, March 18, 2010 Survey Shows Palliative Care Widely Available in US, But Gaps Still Exist, by Maria Sgambati, MD
• Business Week, March 16, 2010 Pain Relief Often Delayed for Cancer Patients, by Randy Dotinga
• Minneapolis StarTribune, New tool lets patients call the shots at end of their lives, by Josephine Marcotty
• AAHPM Blog, Diane Meier Is Working for You on Policy
• Geri-Pal, A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog, Maintaining Relationships: Stop Using the Words ‘Terminal’, ‘Dying’, ‘Hospice’, ‘Advance Directives’ and ‘Bereavement’ that Push Others Away, by Diane E. Meier, M.D
• An Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Event, Health Care Reform and Older Americans: Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs
• The New Health Dialogue, March 3, 2010 This Is Why We Need Palliative Care, by Joanne Kenen
• The Philadelphia Enquirer, February 28,2010 A Look at the New Field of Palliative Care, by Michael Vitez
• Aging Well, Winter 2010 Advance Care Planning: Why It Matters to You, by Diane E. Meier, M.D.
• Advance for Nurses, February 10, 2010 Two Worlds Unite, by Ainsley Maloney Di Duca
• health AGEnda, The John A. Hartford Foundation Blog, February 2, 2010 Solving Chronic Care at Brookings, Part II, by Amy Berman
• US Food & Drug Administration, January 26, 2010 FDA Approves Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution for Relief of Acute and Chronic Pain, press release
• Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2010 Choices at the End of Life, by Lisa Zamosky
• The Huffington Post, January 15, 2010 Palliative Care Needs a Positive Spin, by Dr. Elaine Schattner

2009

• The Birmingham News, November 27, 2009 Every UAB med student to learn more about caring for elderly, by Jeff Hansen
• Houston Chronicle, November 22, 2009 Help with Hoping and Coping, by Rena Lee
• New York Times, November 22, 2009 End-of-Life Planning and the House Health Bill, letter to the editor by Carol Sieger
• New York Times, November 20, 2009 Doctors Debate: Should City Aid Growth in Palliative Care?, by Anemona Hartocollis
• New York Times, November 16, 2009 My Near Death Panel Experience, by Earl Blumenauer
• The Hospitalist, November 2009 Mentored Implementation, by Brendan Shank
• American Cancer Society, October 13, 2009 James A. Block, M.D., to Receive Inaugural Pathfinder in Palliative Care Award
• Fort-Myers News-Press, September 13, 2009 Health care debate brings end of life choices to the forefront, by Dan Warner
• AC 360°, September 11, 2009 Collateral damage in the ruckus over healthcare reform, by Steven M. Asch, Karl Lorenz, and Diane Meier
• NCI Cancer Bulletin, September 8, 2009 Growing Pains: Palliative Care Making Gains, by Carmen Phillips
• Detroit Free Press, September 7, 2009 Prior Planning Can Ease Tough Family Decisions, by Patricia Anstett
• Detroit Free Press, September 7, 2009 Q+A: Making end of life decisions is far from simple, by Patricia Anstett
• DesMoines Register, August 28, 2009 It's about quality of life, not end of life, by Diane E. Meier, M.D.
• WILL am 580 (Illinois Public Media), August 26, 2009 Making Your Wishes Known: Advanced Care Planning, an interview with Diane E. Meier, M.D.
• U.S. News & World Report, August 25, 2009 8 Facts to Know About Palliative Care, by Sarah Baldauf
• Crain's New York Business, August 20, 2009 Mount Sinai doc counters ‘death panel’ critics, by Elizabeth MacBride
• Health Affairs Issue Briefing, August 20, 2009 (End Of Life Issues segment) FACT VS. FICTION: Key Issues in Health Reform
• Health Affairs Journal Conference, C-Span Video Library, August 20, 2009 End of Life Issues and Health Care Legislation (available for purchase at C-Span)
• Kaiser Health News, August 20, 2009 Palliative Care Experts Focus On Comfort Before Death
• The New York Times, August 20, 2009 At the End, Offering Not a Cure but Comfort, by Anemona Hartocollis
• Newsweek, August 20, 2009 Beyond "Death Panels": The Right Way To Die, by Ian Yarett
• USA Today, August 18, 2009 Even phone calls help cancer patients, by Lisa Szabo
• Philadelphia Business Today, August 16, 2009 Consumer Watch: In health-care debate, fears trump facts, by Jeff Gelles
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 14, 2009 Doctors want end-of-life provision resuscitated, by Guy Boulton
• WBUR, April 2009 Quality of Death. End of Life Care in America: Inside Out
• Minnesota Public Radio, April 17, 2009 Terminally ill children often get inadequate pain treatment, by Lorna Benson
• WBUR, April 2009 Quality of Death, End of Life Care in America: Inside Out
• Seattle Times, April 10, 2009 FDA reversal OKs morphine painkiller for dying, by Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press
• The New England Journal of Medicine, February 26, 2009 Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs — Lessons from Regional Variation, by Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., Julie P. Bynum, M.D., M.P.H., and Jonathan S. Skinner, Ph.D.
• The Commonwealth Fund, January 28, 2009 Case Study: Proving and Then Improving the Value of Palliative Care Services at Mount Sinai Medical Center, by Vida Foubister

2008

• Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition, December 5, 2008 California’s Pediatric Palliative Care Waiver Approved by Federal Government
• Journal of Palliative Medicine, November 2008, 11(9):1189-1194 Operational Features for Hospital Palliative Care Programs: Consensus Recommendations, by David E. Weissman, MD, FACP, and Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
• Journal of Palliative Medicine, October 2008, 11(8):1094-1102, Variability in Access to Hospital Palliative Care in the United States, by Benjamin Goldsmith, BA, Jessica Dietrich, MPH, Qingling Du, MS, and R. Sean Morrison, MD
• Advisory Board Finance Watch, November 7, 2008 Palliative care programs boost quality, offer ‘strong’ financial incentives . . . (Membership Required)
• The New York Times, September 23, 2008 25 Receive $500,000 ‘Genius’ Fellowships, by Patricia Cohen
• The Wall Street Journal HealthBlog, September 23, 2008 Four Doctors Win $500,000 MacArthur Genius Awards, posted by Jacob Goldstein
• Reuters UK, September 8, 2008 Special care teams help U.S. patients, hospitals, by Julie Steenhuysen
• MedPage Today, September 8, 2008 Palliative Care Programs Lead to Cost Savings, by John Geever
• Archives of Internal Medicine, September 8, 2008 Cost Savings Associated With US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs, by Sean Morrison et al.
• Oncology Times, August 10, 2008 The Evolution of the Pioneering Palliative Care Center at Medical College of Wisconsin, by Amy Rothman Schonfeld, PhD
• RedOrbit.com, June 15, 2008 Consumer Reports Offers Research on Hospitals
• HealthLeaders Magazine, June 13, 2008 The Case for Palliative Care, by Molly Rowe
• JAMA, June 11, 2008 The Role of Chemotherapy at the End of Life, by Sarah Elizabeth Harrington, MD and Thomas J. Smith, MD
• JAMA, June 11, 2008 Palliative Care for Patients With Head and Neck Cancer, by Amy J. Markowitz, JD and Michael W. Rabow, MD
• USNEWS.COM, June 3, 2008 Palliative Care
• Albany Times Union, May 25, 2008 Palliative care needed for Alzheimer's patients, by Michael C. Brannigan
• Medical News Today, April 25, 2008 Palliative Care Is The Area Of Health Care In Which Doctors Can Make The Greatest Difference To Their Patients
• Cure, Spring 2008 'The New Specialty in Cancer Care,' by Joanne Kenen
• Denver Post, March 25, 2008 Patients and families consider palliative care, by Katy Human
• Star-Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, March 15, 2008 Moving Beyond 'More Is Better,' by Josephine Marcotty
• Science Daily, January 14, 2008 Guidelines To Improve Care Of Three Symptoms At End Of Life
• New York Times, January 4, 2008 U.S. Curtailing Bids to Expand Medicaid Rolls, by Robert Pear

2007

• Washington Post, December 11, 2007 Time Is Money? Not for Docs, by Lindsay Minnema
• The Safety Net, December 1, 2007, Volume 21, Number 3, Palliative Care Issue
• Annals of Internal Medicine, November 20, 2007, Volume 147, Issue 10, pages 730-731 Coordinating Care: A Major (Unreimbursed) Task of Primary Care by Thomas Bodenheimer, MD
• Annals of Internal Medicine, November 20, 2007, Volume 147, Issue 10, pages 693-698 How Much Time Do Physicians Spend Providing Care Outside of Office Visits?, by Jeffrey Farber, MD; Albert Siu, MD, MSPH and Patricia Bloom, MD
• Science Daily, November 2, 2007 Don't Tell Mother She Has Cancer
• Oncology Times, October 10, 2007, vol 29, no. 19 Hospice & Palliative Care Becoming More Integrated into US Health System, by Heather Lindsay
• JAMA, September 19, 2007, vol 298, no. 11 Hospitals Embrace Palliative Care, by Bridget M. Kuehn
• San Antonio Express-News, August 13, 2007 Palliative-care Doctor Teaches Other Physicians to Provide Comfort as Well as Treatment, by Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje
• The Washington Post, July 3, 2007 A New Focus on Easing the Pain, by Joanne Kenen
• Proto, Spring 2007 At Home in Hospice, by Linda Keslar
• Science Daily, June 14, 2007 Early Palliative Care Linked To Shorter Stays in Intensive Care
• Medical Newswire, June 5, 2007 Health Insurers Maintain A Competitive Edge By Expanding Palliative-Care Coverage
• Trustee Magazine, May 2007 Care with Compassion, by Susan Meyers
• The National Academies: Science in the Headlines, May 4 Growing Field of Medicine Coordinates Care for Chronically Ill, by Michelle Strikowsky
• USA Today, April 26 Palliative workers team up to ease the pain, by Liz Szabo
• CNN, April 23 Class trains doctors for the toughest conversation, by Judy Fortin
• Los Angeles Times, February 5 Life on Her Terms, by Susan Brink

2006

• Newsweek, October 16, 2006 Fixing America's Hospitals, by Claudia Kalb
  Special Care at the End of Life, by David Noonan
• Internal Medicine News, October 15, 2006 "Palliative Care to Be Recognized as New Subspecialty"
• Quality and Safety in Healthcare, August 3, 2006 Improving Comfort and Communication in the ICU
• Oncology Times, July 20, 2006 Hospital-Based Palliative-Care Programs Boon for Patients, Staff Alike
• Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2006, "Care Varies Widely at Top Medical Center (registration required) by Ron Winslow
• Internal Medicine News, March 15 "Palliative Medicine Gaining Ground"
• J. Hosp. Med., Volume 1, no. 1 Palliative care in hospitals, by Diane E. Meier
• The New York Times, January 10, 2006. "Let's Get Serious about Relieving Chronic Pain" (registration required) by Jane Brody

2005

• Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 8, no. 6 The Growth of Palliative Care Programs in United States Hospitals
• Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2005 Better Final Days (free registration required) by Shannon Brownlee.
• New York Times Magazine, August 7, 2005 Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death? by Robin Marantz Henig.
• The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2005, "A New Approach for the Sickest Babies," by Andrea Peterson.
• The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2005, "Negotiating the Terms of Your Death," by Andrea Petersen.
• New York Times, March 21, 2005, "New Openness in Deciding When and How to Die," by John Schwartz.
• New York Times, March 20, 2005, "Experts Say Ending Feeding Can Lead to a Gentle Death," by John Schwartz.

2004

• Physician’s Weekly, December 6, 2004 The Palliative Care Solution
• Today’s Hospitalist, December 2004 Profiles in Palliative Care, by Edward Doyle.
• Geriatrics & Aging, November 11, 2004, "Treatment of Nausea and Vomiting in the Older Palliative Care Patient," by Dr. Hannah I. Lipman and Dr. Diane E. Meier.
• Hospitals & Health Networks, October 28, 2004 Reducing Costs, Improving Lives, with Palliative Care, by Dr. Diane E. Meier.
• Journal for Healthcare Quality, September/October 2004, "Palliative Care as a Quality Improvement Strategy for Advanced, Chronic Illness"
• NurseWeek, September 6, 2004 A Final Embrace
• Oncology News International, August 2004, "Palliative Care Units Appear Cost-Effective: An Interview With Thomas Smith, MD"
• New England Journal of Medicine, June 17, 2004, "Palliative Care," by Dr. Diane E. Meier and Dr. R. Sean Morrison.
• Hospitalist, May/June 2004, "UCSF to Mentor Hospitalists in Creating Inpatient Palliative Care Programs," by Dr. Eva H. Chittenden.
• New York Times, May 18, 2004, "When Alzheimer's Steals the Mind, How Aggressively to Treat the Body?"
• New York Times, May 18, 2004, "The Right to Relief," letter from Dr. R. Sean Morrison
• BMJ USA, May 2004. Variability in End of Life Care, editorial by Dr. Diane E. Meier
• Oncology Times, April 25, 2004, "Establishing a Palliative Care Unit: Learning from the Palliative Care Leadership Center (Second of Two Parts)"
• Oncology Times, April 10, 2004, "Establishing a Palliative Care Unit: Learning from the Palliative Care Leadership Center (First of Two Parts)"
• Continuing Care Magazine, March/April 2004, "The Potential of Palliative Care." Article by Dr. Diane E. Meier.
• Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2004 Unlikely Way to Cut Hospital Costs: Comfort the Dying, by Gautam Naik
• Archives of Internal Medicine, January 12, 2004, "The Comprehensive Care Team," by the staff at the UCSF PCLC
• American Journal of Nursing, January 2004, "Acknowledging the ‘Elephant’: Communication in Palliative Care"

2003

• New York Times, December 30, 2003, "Facing Up to the Inevitable, in Search of a Good Death"
• Minnesota Health Care News, December 2003, "Palliative Care," by Dr. Mark Leenay, Fairview PCLC
• Group Practice Journal, November/December 2003 "Effectively Managing Advanced, Chronic Illness Through Palliative Care," by Dr. Diane E. Meier
• New York Times, November 18, 2003, "Scientist at Work: Providing Care, When the Cure Is Out of Reach," profile of Dr. Diane E. Meier
• New York Times, November 18, 2003, "Name a Proxy Early to Prepare for the Unexpected"