# GlaxoSmithKline

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# Coronavirus

GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac to make Covid vaccines targeting new variants

The UK-based firm is teaming up with Germany’s CureVac.

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Feb 3rd 2021, 12:08 PM

# Pandemrix

15-year-old settles case with State and pharmaceutical company over side-effects from swine flu vaccine

Ben Blackwell from Ratoath in Co Meath won damages in the High Court today.

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Nov 4th 2020, 5:47 PM

# stiefel laboratories

Blow for Sligo as 165 jobs to go at GSK manufacturing site

Fine Gael TD Tony McLoughlin called it a “very disappointing announcement for Sligo”.

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Aug 16th 2018, 12:59 PM

# madonna house

'We need a full State investigation': Councillor who was on vaccine trial tables motion on inquiry

Francis Timmons only recently found out that he was on two vaccine trials at Madonna House in the early 1970s.

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Jul 29th 2017, 6:50 AM

# mother-and-baby homes

'I had no idea that I could've gotten these injections': Home survivor told he was put on vaccine trial

Councillor Francis Timmons says that survivors deserve answers on vaccines trials at mother and baby homes.

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Jul 9th 2017, 12:05 AM

# immunisation

Government will consider lifesaving meningitis jab for children - but only if the price is right

The UK is introducing a vaccine and Ireland will follow if “a cost effective agreement can be reached”.

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Mar 30th 2015, 9:51 PM

# warning

Anti-depressant ingredient from Cork plant contaminated with waste

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to GlaxoSmithKline over the contamination which the company first became aware of in January 2012.

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Apr 2nd 2014, 9:47 AM

# Investigation

Man dies after incident at Waterford pharmaceutical plant

The man at first thought to be a worker was actually a member of the public.

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Jan 23rd 2014, 10:48 PM

# Disease

World's first malaria vaccine could be available for African children

GlaxoSmithKline will seek regulatory approval next year to market the vaccine against the disease which killed 660,000 in 2010.

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Oct 8th 2013, 9:05 AM

# Jobswatch

Pharmaceutical firm GSK shuts Cork facility with 94 jobs lost

The drug company’s internet financial services unit is to be moved to Britain.

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Feb 18th 2013, 6:29 PM

# big pharma

French court upholds 'gay sex addict' ruling against Glaxo

Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline has been ordered to pay almost €200,000 to the man who claimed its Parkinson’s drug turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict.

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Nov 28th 2012, 3:10 PM

# In Numbers

Cannabis, beer and T-bills: the week in stats

How high is Europe’s tallest building? And how many cannabis plants were seized by gardaí last year?

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Jul 7th 2012, 7:30 PM

# Fraud

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 billion in US

The fine was the largest health care fraud settlement in US history.

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Jul 2nd 2012, 6:54 PM

# Vaccine

Mother says she's totally convinced swine flu jab caused son's narcolepsy

There are now 16 confirmed cases of narcolepsy with links to the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix in Ireland. A support group is criticising what it’s calling the ‘minimal’ response from the HSE.

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Sep 14th 2011, 4:51 PM