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1) GlaxoSmithKline Has New Country Head For Its Philippine Operation
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Asia Pacific Senior Vice President & Regional Director Venkatraman Thyagarajan is pleased to announce the appointment of Rick T. Gain as the new President & Managing Director for its Philippine operation.

2) Women urged to avail of free cervical cancer screening
Cervical cancer awareness and prevention got a much-needed shot in the arm in Taytay, Rizal when the municipal health office joined the town fiesta parade to urge women to avail of free cervical cancer screening at the Taytay Emergency Hospital.

3) 3rd Hepatitis B Summit recommends vaccination to eradicate the disease
Experts in the fields of gastroenterology and infectious diseases, together with over 300 medical practitioners and healthcare providers, gathered recently to push for the active promotion of vaccination as frontline defense against hepatitis B during the 3rd Hepatitis B Summit held at the Renaissance Makati City Hotel.

With the theme "Take the Fight against Hepa B to the Next Level", the summit was held to heighten awareness of the dangers of the disease, and to provide the medical community with updated information for its prevention and treatment. It was also aimed at enabling the health sector to draw up strategies to combat the disease on the national level.

4) GlaxoSmithKline Foundation strengthens preventive healthcare campaign in Metro Manila
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation (Phils.), Inc. (GSKFI) has strengthened its advocacy campaign on preventive healthcare among indigent members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) by producing and providing a set of health education materials to the various city and municipal health centers in Metro Manila.

5) Sec. Duque launches GSK-supported filariasis elimination campaign in SoCCSKSarGen
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III recently led kick-off activities to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) in SoCCSKSarGen (South Cotabato, Cotabato City, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and General Santos City) by conducting an annual mass drug administration (MDA) in the municipality of Kiamba in Sarangani Province.

6) GSK makes pioneer antibiotic even more relevant today
Antibiotics are one of the most important medicines in modern medical history. Human life has greatly improved both in length and quality due to these life-saving medicines. A landmark period in the development of antibiotics was the discovery of amoxicillin, one of the most popular and dependable antibiotics that had become known to man ever since.

7) GlaxoSmithKline’s Cainta plant sets safety benchmarks
GlaxoSmithKline’s GMS-Cainta has announced a recorded one million consecutive manhours without Lost Time Injury/Illness (LTII) in its manufacturing plant located at Don Celso Tuason Avenue, Cainta, Rizal as of June 2006. The Cainta facility, which is operated by 200 employees and contractors, handles the manufacturing and packaging of GSK’s pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare products.

8) Beat the high cost of cure with GlaxoSmithKline’s Value Health Program
Millions of Filipinos are afflicted with common ailments and medical conditions everyday. Now, Filipinos can stop suffering from such health problems and, even from the high cost of medicines.

GlaxoSmithKline offers affordable yet high-quality and reliable medicine under the Value Health program. Essential antibiotics like co-trimoxazole and amoxicillin, cefaclor, erythromycin and cephalexin and other medication for common ailments such as Ambrolex (ambroxol), Zantac75 (ranitidine), Calpol (paracetamol), the leading asthma brand of salbutamol, and rifampicin are made more affordable by as much as 34 percent under the ValueHealth program. Find immediate and affordable relief from frequent ailments such as coughs, hyperacidity, flu, asthma and bacterial infections.

9) GlaxoSmithKline encourages employees to help preserve the environment
Earth Week is regularly celebrated globally to remind people to conserve the planet’s resources and protect the only home we have. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) commemorated this year’s Earth Week through a series of lectures and events aimed to promote environmental awareness toward its employees, contractors and their families. This was part of the company’s global initiative to promote environmental conservation.