Pregnancy loss is the most common complication of pregnancy.

Family rooms should be the norm, and not a luxury, in all new hospital builds as part of a move to improve end-of-life care, a new report has found.

Children with life-limiting illness should get medical cards, as well as those with cancer, the Irish Hospice Foundation has urged.

Three in four people in Ireland want to die at home, but despite their wishes, most will die in a hospital.

Seven out of 10 family carers are worried that their dependents may be at risk of malnutrition.

Thousands of people will be out in force today in an effort to raise funds for hospice services as forecasters predict heavy rain to spread across the country.

The Irish Hospice Foundation says it fears it will not be able to provide home care services for children because of HSE cutbacks.

There are just 155 hospice beds available at a time when there should be 450, it emerged at yesterday’s meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Up to 2,500 terminally ill patients are being denied hospice inpatient care every year because of repeated government failures to meet “best practice” standards.

Up to 2,500 terminally-ill patients are denied access to hospice inpatient care each year because of the lack of services nationwide, it emerged today.

More men than ever before have accessed services at family resource centres around the country, but counselling hours have been reduced due to cutbacks.

Colin Griffin achieved the 50k standard for the Olympic Games at the IAAF World Cup of Race Walking in Saransk, Russia over the weekend.

THE mental states of death row prisoners in the moments before they are executed have been revealed in a first of its kind study by two Irish psychiatrists.

WITH 13 the average age for early school leavers to have sex for the first time, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) decided to launch a DVD to help parents talk to teens about the issue.

MORE than 120,000 requests for information have been received by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency in the past two years.

THE Government should make emergency contraception available over the counter to help reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) urged yesterday.

ONE of the country’s busiest family planning clinics has had to cancel services for medical card holders due to lack of funding.