November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
The Alzheimer's Association is the leading, global voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care and support, and the largest
private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer research.
President Ronald Reagan designated November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month in 1983. At the time, fewer than 2 million
Americans had Alzheimer’s; today, the number of people with the disease has soared to nearly 5.4 million. Get involved this month, and
help raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disease.
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LifeScience Moment: Laboratory evidence of polio infection in persons with non-paralytic disease was published
On Nov. 30, 1912, John F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost published "Transmission of Poliomyelitis by Means of ther Stable Fly
(Stomoxys Calcitrans)" in the Lancet.
This study provided the first laboratory evidence of polio infection in persons with non-paralytic disease.
This paper was followed by other studies and field investigation in the Hygienic Laboratory on poliomyelitis.
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It's a Small World
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis (Photo Credit: Frederick Murphy & Sylvia Whitfield)
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Science Quote
"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist
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