August 7-13 is National Health Center Week
Each year the second week in August is dedicated to celebrating the services and
contributions of Community, Migrant, Homeless and Public Housing Health Centers.
While there are countless reasons to celebrate America’s Health Centers, among
the most important and unique is their long success in providing access to affordable,
high quality, cost effective health care to medically vulnerable and underserved people
throughout the U.S.
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LifeScience Moment: German chemist Felix Hoffmann synthesized aspirin and heroin.
On August 10, 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis synthesized acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)
aspirin and heroin, and Bayer began to market the substance as Aspirin.
Felix Hoffmann is generally recognized for the creating the first synthesized medically forms of heroin and aspirin. However,
this is disputed and others believe that Arthur Eichengrun was the real inventor. In 2002, Hoffmann was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Science Quote
"True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain."
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Claude Bernard, French physiologist
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(1813-78)
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