May 12 is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
The observance of National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day encourages people to contribute, advocate, participate in research, and educate others about fibromyalgia.
This day brings people with FM and their communities together around the world. The National Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Association is encouraging
organizations worldwide to make fibromyalgia visible by increasing awareness and understanding during Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.
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LifeScience Moment: English scientist and physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year old James Phipps against smallpox
On May 14, 1796, English scientist and physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year old James Phipps with the world's first vaccine against smallpox.
For many years, Jenner had heard the tales that dairymaids were protected from smallpox naturally after having suffered from cowpox. Jenner concluded
that cowpox not only protected against smallpox but could be transmitted from one person to another as a deliberate mechanism of protection.
In early 1796, Jenner found a young dairymaid, Sarah Nelms, who had fresh cowpox lesions on her hands and arms, and used matter from Nelms'
lesions to inoculate Phipps. In July, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with matter from a fresh smallpox lesion. No disease developed.
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It is a Small World
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Microscopy of COVID-19 Omicron Variant, courtesy NIAID.
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Science Quote
"Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist
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(1825-95)
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