August 13-19 is National Health Center Week.
Each year the second week in August is dedicated to celebrating the services and
contributions of Community, Migrant, Homeless and Public Housing Health Centers.
While there are countless reasons to celebrate America’s Health Centers, among
the most important and unique is their long success in providing access to affordable,
high quality, cost effective health care to medically vulnerable and underserved people
throughout the U.S.
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LifeScience Moment: FDA hires temporary investigators to prevent polio vaccine black market.
On August 17, 1955, the FDA announced the hiring of 48 temporary investigators through an earmarked congressional appropriation. The temporary
investigators were hired to help prevent the black market diversion of the new Salk polio vaccine.
The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, was announced April 12, 1955.
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Life Science Evolution...
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It's a Small World
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Ebola Virus (Photo: Courtesy Frederick Murphy)
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Science Quote
"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."
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Sir Arthur Eddington, English astronomer
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(1882-1944)
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