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Dr Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a former nun from Liverpool known as “the mother of palliative care in Africa”. She revolu­tionised end-of-life care in low-income countries by devising a ...
These home visits, combining affordable medical care and spiritual support, are part of Mwesige's routine with Hospice Africa ...
Temperatures were in the 70s, neither too hot nor too cool and a beautiful evening to start a holiday week. Sponsored by ...
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A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...
A Syracuse man admitted Monday he assaulted a man during a brutal kidnapping in 2023 after he originally exaggerated mental deficiencies to try to avoid trial. Rahim Williams, 36, pleaded guilty to ...
“Building El Sueño: Isabel Merriman, Sarah Winchester, and the California Dream,” runs June 26-Nov. 30. The exhibition takes its name from the name the sisters gave to the farmhouse Winchester bought ...
Dr Anne Merriman, Liverpudlian nun who became ‘the mother of palliative care in Africa’ Her recipe for cheap oral morphine was ‘as easy as making coffee, just four ingredients’ and cost no ...
Anne Merriman, Who Brought Hospice Care to Africa, Dies at 90 Known in Africa as ‘the mother of palliative care,’ she established a model for pain management and end-of-life care By Jon ...
When 4 year old Anne Merriman saw pictures of sick children in Africa she announced, “I’m going to Africa to care for the poorly children.” This brash, single mindedness never left her. She spent more ...