June 8 is Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
The annual Caribbean-American Health/AIDS Awareness Day was created to provide Caribbean-Americans with resources, HIV/AIDS health education, evaluation,
and opportunities for involvement. The goal is to beat the odds and to ensure that we cultivate a health conscious atmosphere within our communities.
This day is a part of a National effort to get Caribbean-Americans to get educated, get evaluated, get treated and get involved with their health
decisions, as HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Cancer, High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular diseases continues to negatively affect the Caribbean communities
resulting in premature deaths.
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LifeScience Moment: President Clinton directed Medicare program to reimburse providers for cost of routine patient care in clinical trials
On June 7, 2000, President Clinton issued an Executive Memorandum that directed
the Medicare program to revise its payment policy and immediately begin to explicitly
reimburse providers for the cost of routine patient care associated with participation
in clinical trials, and to take additional action to promote the participation of
Medicare beneficiaries in clinical trials for all diseases.
This action followed an Institute of Medicine report that recommended policy
changes to encourage greater use of clinical trials by older Americans.
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It's a Small World
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MERS-CoV, showing the spherical particles within the cytoplasm of an infected cell (Photo credit: Cynthia Goldsmith/Azaibi Tamin).
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Science Quote
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
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Mark Twain, American writer
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(1835-1910)
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