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Vaccine plants take time and money to build or repurpose and will not solve immediate shortages

Vaccine giant offers assistance after pulling plug on own Covid candidate

Two vaccine candidates fail to deliver strong enough results to challenge rivals

Pharma giant to build research centre next to biologic medicines plant acquired this year

McCaul will also become head of the pharma giant’s country leadership team

Cantillon: With vaccine scepticism rising, the key challenge is whether people can be convinced to get inoculated

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Keeping only those who must be on-site has been key to continuing operations

Lack of understanding of sexually transmitted virus contrasts with danger of prevalence

Aryzta chief executive Kevin Toland to receive in excess of €1m from the acquisition

Takeover will secure the future of 200 jobs on site

Drug giant filling a variety of roles in Swords, Carlow, Tipperary and Cork

Woman faces €40,000 bill for drug licensed in Ireland but not for her head and neck cancer

Patient’s insurer refuses to cover €40,000 cost of treatment as drug has not been approved for particular cancer

Stocktake: Infectious disease outbreaks are a certainty, not a rare and major surprise

Ger Brennan, who runs the Irish operation of MSD, is Brexit-ready and focusing on other issues

Portable Medical Technology partners with pharma giant MSD for Lebanon partnership

Pharmaceutical giant MSD apologises after errors were noticed on transparency site

‘People have died as a result of misinformation. But dead patients don’t talk.’

Company expects to add 170 jobs to 400-plus already working at manufacturing plant

There are many and varied routes to employment in Ireland’s burgeoning life sciences industry

The impact of US foreign direct investment is felt in almost every corner of Ireland

Company known as Merck in North America is to build a second manufacturing facility

Pharma companies says drugs being exported to European markets but are not approved here

Up to 100 women and 30 men die each year from cancers caused by HPV in Ireland

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

Cliff Taylor: No quick fix to our economic reliance on handful of big players

Partnership with Three Ireland will see creation of innovative digital portal

Irish subsidiary MSD building new biologics plant to expand global manufacturing capacity for key cancer drug

Clonmel Healthcare launched generic version of MSD cholesterol drug last week

Cancer drugs feature in list of therapies waiting HSE approval on cost grounds

Biotech facility to employ 350 on repurposed and expanded Dublin site

Business Week: also in the news were major capital infrastructure, housing and jobs

Biotech unit to manufacture blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda will be based on site of old women’s healthcare products business

Major investment by proposed by MSD in London ahead of government publication of industrial strategy which lists life sciences as one of four sectors it is targeting

Programme has spent almost all of its €30m budget for 2017 in first six months of the year

Business Week: housing crisis, Google fined, and another cyber attack

MSD has been at the forefront of a wave of vaccine innovation in recent years

IDA Ireland announces investments of more than €300m and about 620 additional jobs

Roles will be largely based in accounting firm’s new centre of excellence