# Medicines
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This year
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Medicines
Government parties' MEPs pick opposing sides in Brussels row with big pharma over drug costs
3 Feb
13.2k
34
All time
Brexit
EU set to change laws so medicines can flow freely between Britain and Northern Ireland
17 Dec 2021
5.5k
9
Procurement
'Affordable and transparent': HSE's new system for purchasing medicines to cost €1.3 billion
26 Jan 2020
16.6k
17
buying online
'You don't know what's in them': Warning against buying medicines on the internet as over 350,000 pills seized
14 Nov 2019
10.9k
20
Brexit
No-deal Brexit fears: Health chiefs say enough medicines stockpiled to last till New Year
25 Sep 2019
7.4k
3
Tánaiste
Simon Coveney says people shouldn't stockpile medicines because of Brexit
19 Feb 2019
10.4k
38
No deal
Harris tells public and pharmacies NOT to stockpile medicines for no-deal Brexit
15 Jan 2019
14.0k
24
operation pangea xi
Almost 90,000 illegal prescription medicines, including 5,700 erectile dysfunction pills, seized
23 Oct 2018
10.3k
14
food hoarding
Sandwich ingredients safe: Taoiseach rules out 'food stockpiling' in the case of a hard Brexit
1 Aug 2018
14.2k
72
cost of drugs
Ireland plans to work with other countries to drive down the cost of expensive medicines
13 Feb 2018
8.9k
28
Shop Around
'Oh, that's just the price': €11 difference in cost of same medication in two Dublin pharmacies
20 Aug 2017
93.2k
87
new research
Patients should be advised 'to stop treatment when they feel better' instead of full antibiotics course
27 Jul 2017
16.7k
21
valproate
Epilepsy medicine linked to 'severe malformations' in children in France
20 Apr 2017
12.9k
14
Illegal Medicines
Steroids, growth hormones and erectile dysfunction pills worth €2 million seized in Donegal
9 Mar 2017
15.3k
34
value of life
'Not fit for purpose': How an 'arbitrary' system decides what drugs get funded in Ireland
4 Jan 2017
10.0k
45
Over the Counter
'I am nearly 60, but I still need to work': New rules could see pharmacy assistants made redundant
13 Mar 2016
37.2k
25
Sleepy Dreamy Nighty Snoozy Snooze
Do you use medicines to help your child sleep? You shouldn't
16 Jun 2014
27.1k
43
popping pills
People with asthma, diabetes and high cholesterol worst at taking medication
25 Mar 2014
8.2k
39
Voices
Damien Kiberd: Drop the goody-two-shoes approach to economic policy
Damien Kiberd
22 Dec 2013
106
49
Convictions
Unauthorised erectile dysfunction medicine leads to two court cases
30 Oct 2013
13.2k
48
Nicotine
Electronic cigarettes to be sold as over-the-counter medicines in the UK
14 Jun 2013
8.3k
42
Medicines
Illegal medicines worth €375,000 seized in Ireland as part of global operation
4 Oct 2012
7.8k
42
self-care
Group wants increase in number of medicines available without prescription
21 Sep 2012
5.1k
17