Narrowing World Health Disparities

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A sweeping new report by the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health challenges governments to improve world health through smart social policy.

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GSK Seeks Employees on YouTube

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Doctors do it. Patients do it. Now GlaxoSmithKline is jumping into the self-publishing video game on YouTube.

The company says it’s a way to talk more directly to the public. Glaxo, as we first learned from Pharmalot, posted a couple of corporate videos on YouTube earlier this month. In a previous foray on YouTube, Glaxo had provided information about its over-the-counter weight-loss medicine, Alli.

In a recruitment video that went online last week, CEO Andrew Witty talks about the benefits of working at the company, noting that he joined right out of college

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise

HIV numbers revised downwards

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) released new statistics on the global prevalence of HIV and AIDS on 20 November. Their new report estimates that 33.2 million people worldwide are infected with HIV; in 2006 the estimate was 39.5 million.

According to the report, the 16% reduction in the estimate is the result of better data and better epidemiological interpretation of those data, particularly in India.

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