Oct. 20 is World Osteoporosis Day.
World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on October 20, and launches a year-long campaign dedicated
to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone
disease.
Organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, World Osteoporosis Day
involves campaigns by national osteoporosis patient societies from around the world with activities
in over 90 countries. Join in your local World Osteoporosis Day events and campaigns taking place near you.
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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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Botulinum Type A Colonies
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Science Quote
" "... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.""
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Percy Williams Bridgman, U. S. physicist, (Nobel Prize, 1946)
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(1882-1961)
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