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Edwards Lifesciences CEO Mike Mussallem. Photograph: Diarmuid Greene

Mike Mussallem: making Limerick a centre of heart valve technology

Health & Pharma
Barry O'Halloran
April 19, 2019, 10:55

Edwards Lifesciences CEO is excited about its €160m expansion in Castletroy

Deciphex chief executive Donal O’Shea and chief operations officer Mairin Rafferty. The company has raised €2.3 million in a new funding round

Digital pathology start-up Deciphex raises €2.3m in funding

Health & Pharma
Charlie Taylor
April 18, 2019, 03:16

Company using artificial intelligence to accelerate the delivery of pathology services

Reimbursement decisions in France and the UK led to revenue growth for one drug of 28.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2019 compared with a year earlier. Photograph: iStock

Amryt gets 2019 off to strong start following 13% revenue rise in 2018

Health & Pharma
Ciara O'Brien
April 17, 2019, 18:53

Lojuxta revenues driven by UK, France reimbursement approval

The insurer recorded a rise in members to 1.106 million from 1.075 million last year

Vhi recovers nearly €25m from ‘inappropriate billings’

Health & Pharma
Charlie Taylor
April 17, 2019, 13:52

Health insurer paid out €1.33bn and covered almost 1,206,000 claims last year

Malfy’s production stands at around 100,000 cases of gin bottles each year

Pernod Ricard agrees to buy Italian gin brand Malfy

Health & Pharma
April 17, 2019, 13:36

Malfy is a range of super-premium flavoured gin distilled by the Vergnano family

Photograph: iStock

Fusion Antibodies confirms second-half pick-up in revenue

Health & Pharma
Ciara O'Brien
April 17, 2019, 09:15

Orders and revenues rise in Belfast-based firm in final six months of financial year

An Affidea clinic. The European Affidea group has 246 diagnostic imaging, outpatient and cancer-care centres in 16 countries

Affidea invests €1.5m in north Dublin health clinic

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
April 17, 2019, 05:01

Affidea’s ExpressCare clinic to open in Santry in the coming week for minor injuries

Johnson & Johnson products on a store shelf. The company reported a slight rise in quarterly sales to $20.02bn. Photograph: Reuters

Drug demand pushes Johnson & Johnson sales above expectations

Health & Pharma
April 16, 2019, 17:27

The healthcare company records litigation expenses of $423m in the first quarter

Shane Morris of Aurora: “Our cannabis isn’t grown by guys in dreadlocks.”

Canadian cannabis giant lobbies State to supply Irish medical market

Health & Pharma
Mark Paul
April 15, 2019, 03:15

Aurora’s ‘Peppermint Paddy’ leading Canadian firm’s efforts to open up Irish market

A box of Indivior’s Suboxone medication. Photograph: George Frey/Bloomberg

Indivior shares tank after US indictment for illegal marketing

Health & Pharma
April 10, 2019, 09:06

Shares in British maker of opioid addiction treatment Suboxone fell more than 70%

Dr Paul Gough, dietician and founder of Nualtra

Leslie Buckley-backed Nualtra back in black after legal woes end

Health & Pharma
Mark Paul
April 10, 2019, 02:43

Accounts for 2018 show pile of losses down to €4.2m and net assets up to €515,000

Liberian nurses carry the body of an Ebola victim in 2014. Vaccines were not available to victims of the epidemic, lobby group Access to Medicines Ireland says. Photograph: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Drug costs threaten to bankrupt healthcare, says lobby group

Health & Pharma
Dominic Coyle
April 9, 2019, 12:50

Access to Medicines Ireland seeks change in R&D approach of pharmaceutical companies

Avectas cofounder and chief executive Dr Michael Maguire, with cofounder Dr Shirley O’Dea, chief scientific officer and business development director Dr Gillian Hendy. Photograph: Iain White/Fennells

Seamus Mulligan leads $10m funding for cell therapy start-up

Health & Pharma
Dominic Coyle
April 9, 2019, 05:30

Avectas has now raised $20m as it looks to unlock potential of personalised medicine

Signum Surgical scientific advisory board member Mark Regan with chief executive Moshe Zilversmit and Eoin Bambury, co-founder and chief technology officer. Photograph: Business Wire

Galway medtech company wins €3.6m funding

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
April 8, 2019, 14:19

Signum Surgical plans to commercialise a device to treat a colorectal condition

Theya Healthcare founder Ciara Donlon.

Theya Healthcare secures €665,000 funding

Health & Pharma
Peter Hamilton
April 8, 2019, 11:27

Funds will be used to aid US expansion

Johnson & Johnson currently ‘employs around 1,000 people in Limerick at the largest contact lens manufacturing facility in the world’

Johnson & Johnson €100m expansion to create 300 jobs

Health & Pharma
David Raleigh
April 8, 2019, 10:57

Limerick to get 100 permanent jobs at facility and 200 in construction phase

Ireland is, with France, the slowest of the wealthy western European states to approve payment for new medicines, according to a new survey by the industry.

Ireland compares poorly with Europe for access to medicines - report

Health & Pharma
Dominic Coyle
April 7, 2019, 17:37

Study examines access to 121 drugs approved since 2015 by EU regulator

Edwards Lifesciences CEO Mike Mussallem: ‘Since we established operations in Ireland last year, we have appreciation for the excellent business environment to help develop our operations.’ Photograph: Diarmuid Greene

Edwards Lifesciences doubles investment to €160m in Limerick

Health & Pharma
David Raleigh
April 5, 2019, 06:51

American heart device specialist to create 600 jobs in new technology plant

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