June 27 is National HIV Testing Day.
National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) – an annual observance to promote HIV testing. The National Association of People with AIDS founded it in 1995
and continues to lead its implementation each year.
The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the U.S. in June of 1981. Since then, 1.7 million
people in the U.S. are estimated to have been infected with HIV, including over 615,000 who have already died and more than 1.1 million
estimated to be living with the disease today.
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LifeScience Moment: President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act
On June 30, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act,
and the meat inspection act into law, the first of a series of consumer protection laws
enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the
Food and Drug Administration.
Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or
mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to
inspect products and refer offenders to prosecutors. It required that active ingredients
be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging and that drugs could not fall below purity
levels established by The U.S. Pharmacopeia or The National Formulary.
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Life Science Evolution...
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It's a Small World
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Marburg Virus (Photo Credit: Frederick Murphy)
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Science Quote
"... they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea."
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Francis Bacon, English essayist and philosopher
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(1561-1626)
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