US stocks extended their rally into a third week today as investors sent bank stocks higher following new global regulatory requirements and China’s economy continued its robust growth.

Hay fever sufferers across the country are being offered help to gain relief from sneezing and itchy eyes with a new iPhone application launched today.

EVENTING Ireland Chairman John Wright hopes a root and branch analysis of the organisation will lead to a “slicker” operation.

The FTSE 100 Index closed almost 100 points higher today after energy stocks surged and investors eyed a New Year revival in takeover activity.

AN experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the Aids virus for the first time, a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly illness.

An experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the Aids virus for the first time, a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly illness.

Researchers said for the first time an experimental vaccine has cut the risk of infection with the deadly Aids virus.

SAYING the new H1N1 virus is “unstoppable”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave drugmakers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain yesterday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

AN anti-obesity drug has been withdrawn from sale in Ireland over links to mental disorders.

CALLS were made last night for greater Government efforts to protect high-skilled jobs after another 500 job losses were announced in a 24-hour period.

Another foreign multinational has announced plans to lay off hundreds of workers in Munster.

Wall Street extended its losses today as investors awaited a stream of key economic data this week and were left disappointed by the collapse of several closely-watched acquisition deals.

IT costs hospitals around €147,000 a day to treat patients with pneumococcal disease, according to a new campaign urging people at risk to get vaccinated against the infection.

AMERICAN doctors are testing a radical new way to help smokers quit — an injection that “immunises” them against the nicotine rush that fuels their addiction.

An antibiotic linked to a growing number of reports of liver failure, including four deaths, should carry stricter warnings about its effect, according to an internal US Food and Drug Administration memo.

The Dow Jones Industrial averages soared to a five-year high today.

UP TO 500 patients may have been treated with a faulty anti-clotting drug which can cause serious bleeding.

A US government advisory committee is scrutinising an inhaled form of insulin that is designed to help millions of people with diabetes who now rely on injections to control their blood sugar.

French stocks including Sanofi-Aventis declined as Air Liquide advanced.

Pharmaceuticals-giant Sanofi-Synthelabo formally today announced plans to create the world’s third largest pharmaceutical company after making a new, “friendly” bid for the Franco-German Aventis company worth €54bn.