A previously unknown trial of lactose and baby formula was carried out using infants in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home by Glaxo Laboratories in the mid-1970s.

An antidepressant drug made here and commonly used by younger adults in Ireland and elsewhere may not be either as effective or as safe as originally believed.

ONE of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical firms is to close a medical plant in Sligo which it took control of just three and a half months ago.

WASTE from a pharmaceutical plant, which was intended for incineration, was instead discharged into Cork harbour. The blunder went undetected for over eight months.