The week ahead may be pivotal for investors and businesses monitoring the deadly coronavirus outbreak — including Irish companies whose supply chains stretch into China — as they scramble to understand whether the economic fallout will be long-lasting.

To the unknowing passer-by, yesterday might have presented a similar appearance to Munster Final day as crowds streamed into Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Rather than the spectacle of a hurling or football encounter, however, the legendary venue instead hosted the PM Group’s 40th celebration of business in Cork.

The Aquafresh and Panadol drugs business GSK has sold two of its travel vaccines for up to €955 million, the company has announced.

Helen Kelleher talks to Ken Murphy of CareerWise Recruitment

Young people are snapping up apprenticeships, availing of the chance to “earn and learn” across a range of skills areas not usually associated with the in-house training model.

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.

But half of those polled also support parents being permitted to refuse vaccinations for their children if they have concerns about safety.

Global Healthcare company GSK has reassured staff that there will be no job losses at its Cork plant in spite of an agreement to sell the site to Thermo Fisher Scientific.

It is vital to know symptoms, writes Helen O’Callaghan

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.

Parents are being reminded to watch out for the signs of bacterial meningitis.

The evolution of pharma and biopharma over the past 30 years has led to Ireland becoming a global leader, Gilead’s David Cadogan tells Pádraig Hoare.

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.

Merger plans by pharmaceutical giants who are based in Ireland always raise alarm bells.

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.

Two multinational financial giants have snubbed an official request to appear before the Dáil’s spending watchdog to answer questions over corporate tax loopholes.

A report by Revenue into Ireland’s corporation tax rules is set to be completed by April — weeks after major multinationals like Apple and LinkedIn are brought before TDs over loopholes in the system.

The Public Accounts Committee has formally written to Google, Apple and other major multinational firms based here ordering them to answer questions on the tax loopholes they target in this country.

Six multinationals including Apple and Google are set to be hauled before the Dáil’s financial watchdog next year to explain the amount of tax they pay in Ireland amid concerns about loopholes in the system.

Residents and major industries in Ringaskiddy are united in their opposition to the proposed M28 motorway route as it will sever the Co Cork harbourside village.

The word ‘apprentice’ prompts negative connotations in Irish minds, but our EU neighbours consider this trainee structure equal to academic qualifications.

The Government has said it will take steps to increase the number of IT graduates as 80 new jobs were announced in an equity software firm in West Cork.

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.

Global healthcare giant GSK has opened an €8m biomass energy facility in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, that will reduce its carbon emissions by a third.

Helen O’Callaghan hears about a new Irish product for children.

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.

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".

BLÁTHNAID Treacy fizzes with enthusiasm and energy. Right now, things couldn’t be better for the 2FM DJ and co-presenter of Two Tube on RTÉ Two.

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.

Pharmaceutical company GSK has opened two facilities at its manufacturing site in Currabinny, Cork.

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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.

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

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).