More than 200 Pfizer workers in Cork have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a dispute over employee pensions.

Suzi Godson gives advice for when you are struggling to fit sex into a busy schedule.

The taxpayer is spending millions of euro on €37.75 standard packs of erectile dysfunction drugs, though alternative generic versions are a quarter of the cost.

Pearson’s gone. Valeant says it’s no longer a roll-up company. Their joint contribution to capitalism is profound, writes Terry Prone

I made an exception to my “no guests” rule and agreed to share the house for two weeks with a loved one whose family are headed off on holiday. This may turn out to be a serious error, writes Terry Prone.

Since my wife walked out on our 10-year marriage three years ago, I have completely lost any desire to have sex, even though I have been dating some very attractive women. 

Increased demand in China and North America for an anti-cholesterol drug has thrown a lifeline to 136 Pfizer workers who will retain their jobs, at least until the end of this year.

Airline stocks endured a turbulent session today after a profits warning from German carrier Lufthansa shook investors in the sector.

Q. I am 55 and have recently noticed a slowing down in my libido and performance.

Speculation is mounting that US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is set to make a hostile bid for AstraZeneca after its €76bn takeover offer was spurned.

The state spend on drugs used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction went up instead of down last year, figures show. Major savings were expected in the state spend in the area after Pfizer’s Viagra went off patent in Ireland in June of last year.

It is the person with the lower sex drive who maintains control in the sexual relationship.

The Irish Medicines Board has warned that people are putting their lives in danger by taking illegal and fake medicines after it emerged there had been a 60% rise in seizures of sedatives last year.

Davy stockbrokers believe headline figures showing that Ireland is experiencing a double dip recession have been unduly influenced by the performance of multinational companies and that the fundamentals of the economy are improving.

This week’s announcement of a $100m investment in Pfizer plants in Dublin and Ringaskiddy is a positive move in a sector hit by consolidation and the lapse of patents on big-selling drugs like Viagra and Lipitor, reports Kyran FitzGerald

Pfizer is to start selling Viagra online in an effort to take on the glut of websites selling counterfeit and potentially dangerous erectile dysfunction medication for a knock-down price.

A record-breaking cyberattack targeting an anti-spam watchdog group sent ripples of disruption across the web, experts say.

A record-breaking cyberattack targeting an anti-spam watchdog group has sent ripples of disruption coursing across the web, experts say.

US drug maker Pfizer posted first-quarter profits down 19%, mainly because new generic competition to its blockbuster cholesterol pill Lipitor cut US sales by 15%.

The HSE spent €6.3m on Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs in 2010 — an increase of 8% of the year before.

VIAGRA helps ailing hearts to recover in a surprising way — by making them less stiff, scientists have learned.

ICON’S alliance with Pfizer Inc is “likely” to generate in excess of $100 million (€69.34m) in revenue a year, and potentially “significantly more,” chief executive Peter Gray said.

Pfizer, which earlier this year announced its plans to lay off hundreds of Irish workers and sell off three of its plants here, today reported net income of $2.475bn in the second quarter of the year.

PFIZER, best known for producing Viagra, has become the country’s biggest multinational. It follows completion of its $68 billion (€45.5bn) takeover of Wyeth which, also has a substantial presence across Ireland.

US FEDERAL prosecutors hit Pfizer with a record-breaking $2.3 billion (€1.61bn) in fines yesterday and called the world’s largest drug maker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.

VIAGRA and hair straighteners were among the main items confiscated as customs officials more than doubled the amount of counterfeit goods they seized last year.

OUR correspondent ALLAN PROSSER is again filling in for the absent Liam Mackey who is away on international duty this week.

HARD-UP Hugh Hefner will be touched.

A CHINESE herbal remedy called horny goat weed is a promising alternative to Viagra for impotent men, Italian researchers said yesterday.

The company behind Viagra announced today that it is to close its manufacturing operations in the British town of Kent after 53 years, resulting in the loss of more than 400 jobs.

IT IS a frustrating fact of scientific endeavour that some discoveries only emerge after long years of research while others just pop up out of the blue.

A VERSION of Elvis Presley’s hit song In the Ghetto, featuring his daughter’s voice, has been created to mark the 30th anniversary today of the king of rock ’n’ roll’s death.

FAILURE to get approval for a blockbuster drug expected to reap billions is the main factor behind the loss of up to 545 jobs at Pfizer in Cork.

The fight against the global €28 billion illegal medicines racket is being waged every day at Irish borders and delivery depots, but is set to escalate further, writes Paul Kelly.

Patients turning to the internet to get cheap drugs can get almost anything they want, with no questions asked. Paul Kelly finds out just how easy it is to get round the law.

THE Taoiseach has underestimated the gravity of the situation whereby some of his advisers (it now seems there are at least two) claimed for themselves academic distinctions they have bought and not earned.

I REFER to your report headlined ‘Counterfeit drugs will kill, expert warns’ (Irish Examiner, October 12).

PFIZER, the world’s biggest drugmaker, said third-quarter earnings plunged 52% on lower sales of its Celebrex painkiller and Neurontin epilepsy drug.

US health officials are examining rare reports of blindness among some men using the impotence drug Viagra.

Chinese judges will hear tomorrow Pfizer’s appeal against the country’s withdrawal of patent protection for the company’s best-selling erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra, a Pfizer spokesman said.

THE Irish economy is home to 83 pharmaceutical plants accounting for 17,000 jobs and total exports of €35 billion last year.

A BOGUS doctor who ran Britain’s biggest counterfeit Viagra factory was jailed for five-and-a-half years yesterday.