October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month.
October is SIDS Awareness Month. Learn more about the problem and the risk factors and take action to reduce the risk.
Start by always placing babies on their backs to sleep.
The CDC is collaborating with the National Institutes of Health in its new Safe to Sleep campaign, outreach and education activities
aimed at reducing infant death risk from SIDS and other sleep-related sudden unexpected infant deaths.
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LifeScience Moment: The Prescription Drug Amendment was signed into law."
On Oct. 26, 1951, the Durham-Humphrey Amendment, also known as the Prescription Drug Amendment,
was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. The act defined two specific categories for medications:
legend (prescription) and over-the-counter (OTC).
The amendment was co-sponsored by former vice president and Minnesota senator Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (D),
a pharmacist in South Dakota before entering politics, and Carl Durham (D), a pharmacist who represented
North Carolina.
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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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Zika virus particles (red) shown in African green monkey kidney cells. Courest Zika virus particles (red) shown in African green monkey kidney cells. (Image courtesy NIAID)
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Science Quote
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician
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(1642-1727)
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