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: The Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act (PL 105-41) was signed into law.
On Aug. 13, 1997, the Stamp Out Breast Cancer Act (PL 105-41) was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The bill established a special alternative rate
of postage up to 25% higher than a regular first-class stamp. Seventy percent of the profits from the sale of the stamp would go to NIH to fund breast cancer
research; the remaining 30% would go toward U.S. Department of Defense breast cancer research.
The driving force behind the creation of the Stamp was Dr. Ernie Bodai, a Permanente surgeon and director of the Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic at
Kaiser Permanente, in Sacramento, California. Dr. Bodai successfully lobbied Congress and the Act, sponsored by Representatives Vic Fazio (D-CA) and Susan Molinari (R-NY).
passed the House (422-3), and the companion version sponsored by Senators Feinstein (D-CA), Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY), and Lauch Faircloth (R-NC), and passed
unanimously in the Senate, and was signed into law by the President.
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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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Red blood cell infected with malaria parasites. (Image: Courtesy NIAID)
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Science Quote
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian
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(1795-1881)
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