May is National Arthritis Awareness Month.
For the 50 million Americans and the many more at risk in the U.S., the pain, cost
and disability of arthritis is unacceptable.
That’s why in May – National Arthritis Awareness Month – the Arthritis Foundation is calling on the nation to take action
against arthritis, the nation’s leading cause of disability.
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LifeScience Moment: Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton, named the "Angel of the Battlefield" during the
Civil War, founded the American Association of the Red Cross which she led until 1904.
During a visit to Europe in 1869, she discovered the Red Cross Movement in Switzerland
and upon her return to the U.S. took steps to establish a U.S. organization.
Reincorporated as The American National Red Cross in 1893, the organization was given
charters by Congress in 1900 and in 1905. The 1905 charter and its amendments
provide the basis for today's American Red Cross and the close working relationship
between the organization and the federal government.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Salmonella Typhimurium (Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr)
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Science Quote
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."
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Pierre Abelard, French philosopher, theologian
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(1079-1142)
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