David Delaney

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The health service could save up to €1 billion in its medicines budget over the next five years, according to the group representing the sector. Photograph: Getty
HSE could save €200m a year with off-patent drugs – report

The health service could save up to €1 billion in its medicines budget over the next five years through increased use of generic and biosimilar produc(...)

A dramatic increase in sales of over-the-counter medications such as paracetamol and ibrupofen as people became spooked by the coronavirus outbreak has eased and supplies remain solid, pharmacists and producers have said. File photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg.
Coronavirus: Pharmacists say supplies solid as ‘panic buying’ dies down

A dramatic increase in sales of over the counter medications such as paracetamol and ibrupofen as people became “spooked” by the coronavirus outbreak (...)

A sanitisation operation in the streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli of Naples, to stem the danger of contagion and spread of Covid-19
Medical supplies strong as EU announces €50m stockpile of equipment

Irish medicine supplies remain strong despite Covid-19, the Irish pharmaceutical trade association has said as the European Union announced a new €50 (...)

A woman registers her palm on a PulseWallet, a point-of-purchase device, during the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month. Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters
Payment in the palm of your hand

Using your biometric data as a method of identification is commonplace these days. Once the territory of high-security facilities in movies, now it’s (...)