Frederick Clarence Armstrong, OAM Architect, Community Servant 16-11-1914 - 10-11-2008 CLARRIE Armstrong had a strong sense of history. He was always amazed that he lived at a time when he could contribute to the modernisation of Victoria's buildings - hospital buildings in particular. Frederick Armstrong

Central to the debate on euthanasia is the provision of quality palliative care, writes Adrian Dabscheck.

TERMINALLY ill patients in regional NSW are unnecessarily suffering excruciating pain because of a lack of palliative care, the author of an internal Health Department report has revealed.

Pain-relief medication needs to go beyond aspirin for many people in their final days. AN international report released today Access to Pain Relief an Essential Human Right has shown that about 80 per cent of the world's palliative care patients have no access to pain-relief medicines.

THREE University of Newcastle researchers have been awarded $500,000 for research into palliative care.