August 9-15 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: German chemist Felix Hoffmann synthesized aspirin and heroin.
On August 10, 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis synthesized acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)
aspirin and heroin, and Bayer began to market the substance as Aspirin.
Felix Hoffmann is generally recognized for the creating the first synthesized medically forms of heroin and aspirin. However,
this is disputed and others believe that Arthur Eichengrun was the real inventor. In 2002, Hoffmann was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Where do we come from?
Explore the genealogy of the life science industry by state or province through one-of-a-kind posters
illustrating the founding technology origins of life science companies.
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It's a Small World
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West Nile Virus (Photo Credit: Cynthia Goldsmith)
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Science Quote
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
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Mark Twain, American writer
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(1835-1910)
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