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Matthew Onaitis assumed the role of chief financial officer at Mainstay Medical on August 20th.

Mainstay Medical appoints new chief financial officer

Health & Pharma
Fiona Reddan
August 20, 2018, 08:27

Matthew Onaitis joins medical device company from Cidara Therapeutics

Uniphar chief executive Ger Rabbette (left) and chairman Maurice Pratt. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Uniphar cleared to buy Sisk’s hospital equipment business

Health & Pharma
Barry O'Halloran
August 17, 2018, 20:03

Healthcare equipment business changing hands for reported €65m

Bon Secours is in the throes of a €150 million investment across its estate including expansion of its clinical facilities in Cork. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

Private hospital records fall in patients as State body makes fewer referrals

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 16, 2018, 16:55

Accounts show profits fell 61% at Bon Secours Group as payroll costs rise

GlaxoSmithKline said its other operations in Ireland (manufacturing sites in Cork and Dungarvan, and commercial operations in Dublin) will not affected by the Sligo closure

Jobs blow as 165 roles to go at Stiefel Laboratories in Sligo

Health & Pharma
Marese McDonagh
August 16, 2018, 12:08

GSK-owned Stiefel to shut down plant on a phased basis over the next three years

Fusion Antibodies has a particular focus on the production of antibodies in a lab. Photograph: iStock

Fusion Antibodies reports £700,000 loss for first trading year

Health & Pharma
Francess McDonnell
August 16, 2018, 10:46

Belfast company says results show ‘strong organic growth’

Shares dive in NI-based clinical trials group

Health & Pharma
Francess McDonnell
August 13, 2018, 11:29

Fusion Antibodies warns trading has been ‘slower than anticipated’

The herbicide Roundup, which contains glyphosate. Roundup is manufactured by the Monsanto company, a unit of German pharmaceutical company Bayer, in St Louis in the US. Photograph: Steffen Schmidt/EPA

Bayer shares fall up to 14% after Monsanto’s Roundup lawsuit

Health & Pharma
August 13, 2018, 11:20

California jury has ordered a Bayer subsidiary to pay €254m for not warning of cancer risks posed by its main weed killer

Gareth Sheridan, chief executive and founder of Nutriband, developed the idea for Nutriband while completing his thesis as a business and management student at Dublin Institute of Technology

Irish entrepreneur unexpectedly withdraws bid to buy US firm

Health & Pharma
Charlie Taylor
August 11, 2018, 05:48

Company linked to former presidential candidate Seán Gallagher ditches transaction

Perrigo is one of a number of generics manufacturers in Ireland. Photograph: iStock

Perrigo slashes guidance on weakness in prescription business

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 9, 2018, 13:59

Dublin-domiciled company announces separation of prescription arm following review

The Health Service Executive says it has approved six cancer therapies this year and 24 since the start of 2016.

Big Pharma scathing on failure to endorse new cancer medicines

Health & Pharma
Dominic Coyle
August 9, 2018, 06:00

Cancer strategy targets ‘to be missed’ if new generation drugs not backed by Government

UDG Healthcare now operates in two divisions - Sharp and Ashfield. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

UDG shares down 10% on weakness in contract sales division

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 8, 2018, 18:56

Service provider taking $44 million impairment charge on sale of Aquilant business

A shortage of Mylan’s emergency allergy shot EpiPen weighed on quarterly revenue. Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters

Mylan says US healthcare market is ‘unsustainable’

Health & Pharma
August 8, 2018, 15:55

Generic drugs giant falls far short of Wall Street forecasts with second-quarter profit

Bruce Cozadd, chief executive and chairman of Jazz Pharmaceuticals, which saw its shares fall more than 6 per cent overnight as it lowered full-year guidance. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Jazz Pharma slips as it lowers full-year guidance

Health & Pharma
Dominic Coyle
August 8, 2018, 10:29

Irish drug group reports 27% rise in sales but profit slips and supply disruptions remain

Alan Armstrong, chairman and chief executive of the Almac Group, pictured alongside DUP leader Arlene Foster in 2014 at the announcement of a major investment in new jobs.

Almac receives £2m grant from UK agency to fight cancer

Health & Pharma
August 6, 2018, 19:00

Craigavon-headquartered pharmaceutical group is teaming with a Scottish university spin out to find new ways to fight cancer

Steven Damon, Sean Gallagher, Dr Alan Smith and Gareth Sheridan of Nutriband

Irish-founded Nutriband completes $2.25m deal for 4P Therapeutics

Health & Pharma
Charlie Taylor
August 6, 2018, 14:04

Former Dragons’ Den investor Sean Gallagher is president of the company

Jazz Pharmaceuticals chief executive Bruce Cozadd: “We fully intend to have strong acquisitions going forward.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Jazz Pharmaceuticals to increase Irish staff numbers

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 6, 2018, 04:46

Dublin-headquartered pharma company bringing new drugs to market this year

Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association says IP rights for drug manufacturers would be weakened and research facilities put at risk if EU changes its rules. Photograph: iStock

Ireland’s IP image may be hit by drug patent waiver, pharma body warns

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 6, 2018, 04:43

Lobby group says fewer medicines will come to market if EU alters patent right protection

Amryt Pharma chief executive Joe Wiley.

Amryt Pharma wins key US drug designation

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
August 2, 2018, 15:04

FDA move means Irish company could receive voucher ultimately worth up to €300m

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