The Pirbright Institute and its research partners have granted MSD Animal Health an exclusive commercial licence for a new, effective and affordable vaccine to protect livestock against several serotypes of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV).

THE Enterprise Minister must establish a taskforce in his constituency after a pharmaceutical giant yesterday announced plans to shed 160 jobs over three years.

IRELAND will play an evolved role in the newly expanded healthcare corporation Merck & Co Inc, which yesterday completed its merger with Schering-Plough Corporation.