Baxter Healthcare is to shed 110 jobs in Castlebar, Co Mayo.

Up to 110 jobs are to go at a pharmaceutical plant in Castlebar Co Mayo.

A CONTAMINATED production line has forced a major healthcare firm in Castlebar, Co Mayo, to temporarily shed 150 workers for a four-month period.

Up to 250 jobs were axed today as both a global healthcare firm and brewer culled staff numbers.

Some 200 jobs are to go at Baxter Healthcare in Co Mayo.

ONE in four of the population have been inoculated against swine flu after a surge in demand for the vaccine in the last few months.

THE Government has cancelled an order for the swine flu vaccine valued at €25 million as pressure mounts on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to review its handling of the pandemic.

THE Government has indemnified the manufacturers of the swine flu vaccine from any liability for side effects as it emerged that babies under the age of six months will not be given the jab.

A SWINE flu vaccine is set to be purchased at a cost of almost €90 million andwill be first administered to those “most at risk” of infection.

Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a $750,000 €547,000) settlement with a hospital that gave his newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner.

Bernard Collins has been re-appointed chairman of Vhi Healthcare for a further five years.

A Los Angeles hospital put three children, including actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins, in danger by giving them overdoses of a blood thinner, California regulators said today.

Brendan Farrell has joined the board of Campbell Informatics as a non-executive director.