February 7-14: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Congenital Heart Disease is considered to be the most common birth defect, and is a leading cause of
birth-defect related deaths worldwide.
CHD Awareness Week is an annual awareness effort to help educate the public about Congenital Heart
Defects. Participants include individuals, local support groups, national and local organizations and
congenital cardiology centers throughout the world.
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LifeScience Moment: Senator Matthew Neely proposed legislation offering a $5 million reward for a cancer cure discovery.
On Febrary 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI)I was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)
of West Virginia proposed a bill that would offer a $5 million reward for the discovery of a cure for cancer.
Senator Neely's "reward" bill did not pass, but it was among the first in a series of proposed legislation
that laid the groundwork for the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Anthrax Bacteria (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
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Archimedes, Greek mathematician
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(287?-212 BC)
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