Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Anne Brescia sat beside her only child, Anthony, as he lay unconscious in a ...

Comfort care and hospice care are specialized services that focus on improving the quality of life for a person with a severe or terminal illness (one that will lead to death). While these treatments ...

After several hospitalizations over recent years due to congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Barbara Bush (who also has Graves Disease) has elected to forego further ...

Barbara Bush’s decision to stop further medical treatment and choose instead to be at home surrounded by loved ones is focusing attention on “comfort care.” A family spokesman did not mention a ...

To assess the perception of parents concerning the state of comfort maintained in their infants born with life-limiting conditions and treated by a standardized neonatal comfort care program.

Anne Brescia sat beside her only child, Anthony, as he lay unconscious in a hospital bed at age 16. Just a few months before, he was competing in a swim meet; now cancer was destroying his brain.