No treatment or palliative measures are known.
Many palliative measures such as symptom-controlling medications, good nursing care, communication and compassion, are inexpensive.
In such a climate, the impact of supposedly palliative measures conceded to the Lib Dems will hardly register.
But what of the inexpensive palliative measures for those experiencing pain?
For many years, neonatologists relied largely on gestational age in deciding whether to administer intensive care or to "redirect," which means to restrict care to palliative measures.
Of course, he acknowledged, there are palliative measures that companies like Hewlett-Packard can take, like trying to "reduce the ways that empty cartridges get on the market".
McClelland's approach to philanthropy similarly combined the practical and ideal, following Joseph Rowntree's belief in tackling social causes of poverty rather than in palliative measures.
The mayor also said the Stop&Shop chain, based in Quincy, Mass., has promised several palliative measures: burying overhead public utility wires in the area; adding extra off-street parking for the village; and cleaning up an adjacent lot.
But rather than immediately arrange for palliative measures, doctors arranged for a brief trial to see if she could breathe on her own.
The government imposes palliative measures to deal with problems of its own making, using tactics that only make them worse in the long run.
The protesters made it clear that the fuel subsidy removal — abrupt and unaccompanied by any palliative measures — was seen as one more act of insensitivity by a government they criticized for favoring the wealthy.
