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McKinsey’s Kevin Sneader voted out in leadership ballot after string of crises
- Retail & Services
- February 24, 2021, 15:10
McKinsey partners have voted to replace Kevin Sneader as global managing partner in a historic rebuke over his handling of a succession of crises, acc(...)

McKinsey to pay $537m to settle claims over US opioid epidemic
- Health & Pharma
- February 4, 2021, 20:17
McKinsey will pay $573 million (€478 million) to settle claims by US states that the blue-chip consulting firm helped fuel the country’s opioid epidem(...)

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges
- Health & Pharma
- November 25, 2020, 09:40
Purdue Pharma has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal(...)

Man caught with a Kinder egg containing illegal drugs is jailed
- Criminal Court
- November 17, 2020, 16:59
A man caught with a Kinder Surprise egg containing illegal drugs had previously been shot in the head, a court has heard. Scott Purdue (22) was also (...)

Irish-based Mallinckrodt files for bankruptcy protection
- Health & Pharma
- October 12, 2020, 10:46
Drugmaker Mallinckrodt, which is headquartered in Ireland for tax reasons, filed for bankruptcy protection in the US on Monday as it seeks to deal wit(...)

Cornelius Lanczos: Inspired by Hamilton’s quaternions
- Science
- July 16, 2020, 01:22
In May 1954, Cornelius Lanczos took up a position as senior professor in the School of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studie(...)

Bayer reaches agreement in 125,000 US cancer lawsuits
- Health & Pharma
- May 25, 2020, 12:26
Bayer has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 US cancer lawsuits over use of its Roundup weedkiller, ac(...)

Opioid executive admits to ‘no morals’ ahead of prison term
- Health & Pharma
- January 25, 2020, 10:00
US pharmaceutical executives have been put on notice that they could be held criminally liable for fuelling America’s epidemic of opioid addiction, af(...)

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy
- Health & Pharma
- September 16, 2019, 11:33
Purdue Pharma, the opioid maker owned by members of the Sackler family, has filed for bankruptcy, as it hopes to force holdout states to accept its of(...)

US opioid ruling redraws the lines for Big Pharma
- Health & Pharma
- August 31, 2019, 05:48
Turn on a TV set or YouTube video in America today and it won’t take long before you’ll encounter a drug company’s ad telling you how their product ca(...)