October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) organization is a partnership of national public service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies working together to promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and provide greater access to screening services.

Breast cancer in the U.S. is the most common cancer in women, no matter your race or ethnicity. More than 220,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. this year, and more than 40,000 women will die from breast cancer. There are over 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.

LifeScience Moment: The National Congress on Medical Quackery convened in Washington, DC

On October 6, 1961, the National Congress on Medical Quackery convened in Washington, D.C. The Congress was sponsored jointly by the American Medical Association and the FDA.

More than 700 attendees from state medical societies and licensing boards, Better Business Bureaus and trade associations, federal and state agencies, medical and pharmacy and nursing schools, health insurance companies, research institutes, women's clubs, and related societies concerned with disease attended the meeting.

The objective was to eliminate quackery as a major health problem in the U.S.

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"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."