WIDESPREAD interest is expected in the sale of a stunning Cork harbour waterfront site now fully vacated by Pfizer.

Patients given faulty hip replacements may have received a boost to their case for compensation following the revelation that the manufacturers continued to sell the defective devices a year after discovering their flaws.

WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.

Irish patients who have had hip replacement surgery may have to undergo the procedure again because of a fault with the device.

AN ear surgeon has warned against the use of cotton buds for cleaning ears.

IRISH food suppliers are charging up to 70% more for products than their British counterparts, retailer representatives told the Oireachtas Enterprise, Trade and Employment committee yesterday.

EMPLOYERS from across the mid-west will gather for a bigr business meeting in Shannon tomorrow amid concerns that the loss of Aer Lingus’s Heathrow link will cripple the regional economy.

A subsidiary of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical firm has announced plans to create 120 new jobs in Limerick.

THE proposed €18 billion takeover of Guidant by Johnson & Johnson is not expected to impact on the creation of more than 1,300 new jobs planned independently by the companies in Cork and Clonmel.

UP TO 1,000 jobs are expected to be created in Cork following yesterday's announcement of a €650 million investment by pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson.

The Johnson and Johnson healthcare firm has withdrawn its "Baby Bedtime" gift set after receiving reports that some of the battery-operated lights in the pack are defective.