Campaigners have called for vaccine trials to be included in the upcoming mother and baby home inquiry, after it emerged a previously unknown fifth trial was carried out on children here in the 1960s.

A previously unknown fifth vaccine trial was carried out by Glaxo Laboratories on more than 30 young children here in the 1960s.

Survivors of the vaccine trials deserve a full inquiry, and a State apology, writes Michael Dwyer

CECILY Brennan’s punchy paintings of angry red limbs torn up with eczema are so convincing that staff from UCC’s Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) praised their accuracy.

IRISH pharmaceutical group, Elan has named former Glaxo Wellcome chief executive, Robert (Bob) Ingram as its next chairman.

Hong Kong's two main supermarket chains are removing milk powder made by Swiss food giant Nestle from their shelves after a newspaper reported it contains the industrial chemical melamine.

China’s poisoned powdered milk scandal widened today after liquid milk from three of the country’s leading dairies was found to be contaminated.

The Laffoy Commission is to open a public hearing later today into a vaccine scandal which saw children in six homes administered with experimental injections in 1960 and 1961.

HUNDREDS of Irish women whose mothers were prescribed a drug aimed at preventing miscarriages face more than double the normal risk of breast cancer.

MEASURING contributions to society is like counting hairs on a wriggling cat very hard to know which end to start from and not a precise process no matter where you begin.

The Junior Minister for Health says that an investigation into a vaccination programme, which was carried out in the 1970’s, has shown that two children were given vaccines that were supposed to be only used on animals.

The Minister for Health has insisted his department was not aware of claims that children may have been injected with an animal vaccine in 1973.