Four people with swine flu have died in the last week bringing the total death toll to 14, it was confirmed tonight.

AN anti-obesity drug has been withdrawn from sale in Ireland over links to mental disorders.

PARENTS were last night urged to ensure their children were given the right dosage of cough and cold medicines after five toddlers in Britain died from overdoses.

The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has today reminded parents that cough and cold medicines for use in children under two, have never been recommended in Ireland without appropriate advice from a doctor or pharmacist.

MEDICAL experts have warned of the dangers of a drug being provided to Irish women to allow them to carry out an abortion at home.

THE family of an elderly widow who died of liver failure caused by a recently banned painkiller backed calls yesterday for improved reporting of the dangerous side-effects of drugs to the country’s medicines watchdog.

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.

THE Irish Examiner today lifts the lid on the lucrative world of illegal internet pharmacies which are flooding Ireland with medicine from abroad.

THE EU is to ban the movement of live birds and poultry meat from a Greek island region as the authorities there struggle with their first case of bird flu.

QUICK thinking by the State’s drug policing body has ensured that Ireland does not run short of flu vaccine this winter.

Evelyn Ring

ANTI-depressant drugs which could make young patients suicidal have never been approved for children under 18 years of age, the Irish Medicines Board said yesterday.

PARENTS’ confidence in the State’s vaccination policy hit a new low yesterday after it emerged that around 30,000 children received an ineffective jab to protect against TB.