THE amount of paracetamol that should be given to children is being reviewed by the state’s drug policing body following a decision to cut it in half in Britain.

CHILDREN under the age of six should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, according to the Irish Medicines Board.

PEOPLE will be able to get the flu vaccine from pharmacists after Health Minister James Reilly met with the pharmacy union to discuss the plan yesterday.

THE chairman of the Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) was paid almost €50,000 to lead the six-person ethics board last year.

THE Irish Pharmacy Union has said the Government is “entrenching outdated patterns of primary care delivery” by cutting payments to pharmacists in order to make annual savings of €36 million.

A PRESCRIPTION tax brought in yesterday could stop the sickest and poorest from taking their medicine, pharmacists warned.

A prescription tax brought in today could stop the sickest and poorest from taking their medicine, pharmacists warned.

CONSUMERS face a double blow today with the introduction of new energy costs and medication levies.

PHARMACISTS want the Government to force the immediate closure of head shops because they pose a serious risk to public health.

As many as 1,600 jobs have been lost in community pharmacies in the past nine months, according to new research.

GARDAÍ will start patrolling the HSE’s temporary pharmacies from today amid allegations that protesting pharmacists were intimidating staff at the sites.

I AM a pharmacist and I have a problem. I want to take a pay cut, but I also want to have some say in how it is introduced.

PATIENTS must not be used as pawns by any party in a commercial dispute, patient advocate Stephen McMahon told over 1,000 pharmacists attending an emergency meeting over government fee cuts.

Pharmacists have today warned that the country is 10 days away from a crisis in the supply of medicines.

PHARMACISTS fear they will go out of business if the Health Service Executive presses ahead in cutting the wholesale mark-up on drugs dispensed under the medical card scheme next month.

PHARMACISTS across Ireland have seen sales of traditional winter cold remedies rocket as the dismal summer weather causes people to catch colds and flu.

A prescribed drug was withdrawn from the Irish market today after three people died from liver failure.

THE public is being forced to pay unnecessarily high sums for important medi-cines that should be made available over the counter, the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) has claimed.

People should be wary of the dangers of overusing the opium-based drug codeine found in many painkillers, pharmacists’ warned today.