As the World Health Organisation scrambles for a cure to the Coronavirus, a further crisis is simmering: The global dependence on China for the production of key ingredients in the global supply chain for antibiotics, diabetes drugs, painkillers and also many electronic components for medical devices.

Prior to the vaccine, she enjoyed a "very active life, a very active social life and school was no bother".

Senior executives in many of Ireland’s leading pharma, life sciences and technology companies did ordinary level maths in their Leaving Certificate.

The State in the High Court has expressed “ greatest sympathy” for a 26-year-old woman who is suing claiming she developed narcolepsy after she got the swine flu Pandemrix vaccination.

GlaxoSmithKline has beaten second-quarter profit expectations with the help of strong demand for its shingles vaccine, prompting the drugmaker to forecast a smaller fall in profit this year than originally anticipated.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) forecast that 2019 sales of its shingles vaccine would be more than £1bn (€1.1bn) but the drugmaker’s shares slipped on concerns about its pharmaceutical business and free cash flow.

Shares in Reckitt Benckiser rose after the consumer goods group posted higher-than-expected sales growth, helped by improvements in both its health and home and hygiene businesses.

Pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer have said that it is too early to say what the implications are for their Irish staff after a partnership between the firms to create a €10.85bn consumer health division.

Ben Hirschler For Christophe Weber, the boss of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical, securing a $62bn (€52bn) deal last week to buy drugmaker Shire at the fifth time of asking was the easy bit.

Novartis, the Swiss drugmaker which employs 1,600 people in Ireland, has agreed to acquire AveXis for $8.7bn (€7.1bn) to gain a promising drug to treat a rare disease that afflicts infants, hastening a shift towards gene therapy and precision medicines.

After a cyber attack and a botched product launch spoiled Reckitt Benckiser’s 2017, a pricing squeeze threatens to make this year almost as tough.

The contract is for supply, over about five years, of about one million doses of the 6in1 vaccine, which relates to Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Hepatits B, Inactivated Polio Vaccine and Hameophilus Infuenza Type B.

Nine multinationals employing 5,000 people in a Cork town say they are “deeply frustrated” that the concerns of the local community were “ignored” by planners designing a new motorway.

The threat of slowing demand and new competition in GlaxoSmithKline’s flagship HIV drug business has unnerved investors in the UK’s biggest drugmaker, sending its shares down 1.8%.

A previously unknown trial of lactose and baby formula was carried out using infants in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home by Glaxo Laboratories in the mid-1970s.

A previously unknown trial of lactose and baby formula was carried out using infants in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home by Glaxo Laboratories in the mid-1970s.

Previously unseen details of a medical trial by Glaxo in 1974 at a Cork mother and baby home have generated a whole new series of questions for the nuns and the companies involved, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

Ever wondered what a management position in the sciences might be like? Well, we spent a day with Dr Catherine O’Connor, a medical science liaison manager at GlaxoSmithKline.

Some asthma patients in the UK are set to benefit from a new monthly injection to help combat severe symptoms.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has filed its shingles vaccine Shingrix for US regulatory approval, the drugmaker said yesterday, bringing the potential $1bn (€918m)-a-year seller a step closer to market.

Dozens of people, many of them children, have initiated legal proceedings against the State and GlaxoSmithKline after developing narcolepsy following the swine flu vaccine.

GlaxoSmithKline has brushed aside Brexit jitters and announced that it is pumping £275m into its three UK manufacturing sites, dubbing the UK an "attractive location".

GlaxoSmithKline reported its first increase in quarterly profit since 2013, helped by sales of its HIV medicines and a weakening sterling.

Uncertainty over the future of Britain remaining in the EU has big pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ireland, and around the world, worried.

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An antidepressant drug made here and commonly used by younger adults in Ireland and elsewhere may not be either as effective or as safe as originally believed.

Firefighters in Cork county are responding in less than 10 minutes to one in three fires.

The world’s first malaria vaccine got a green light from European drugs regulators who recommended it should be licensed for use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.

Two new ebola vaccine trials began with volunteers in Britain, France and Senegal getting “prime-boost” immunisations developed by Bavarian Nordic, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson.

A copyright suit between Walt Disney and a California resident has been settled, according to a June 24 court filing.

London Mayor Boris Johnson is proposing a £10bn (€14bn) fund to encourage growth of emerging healthcare companies in the UK in an effort to catch up to biotechnology clusters in the US.

Dublin-domiciled drug firm Perrigo is set to significantly strengthen its status as one of the world’s leading over-the-counter drugs makers by acquiring a selection of such brands from industry giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

A major pharmaceutical company is seeking an injunction preventing the roll-out by a rival of an inhaler for asthmatics over alleged infringement of its trademark.

The average response time for firemen to reach a fire in Co Cork is 14 minutes and five seconds, according to a report released by Cork County Council.