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Logo - CDC Photograph - Alex Brandon, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC - Logo AP - Photograph, 2006 - Logo 2020 April - Photograph

 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading, national public health institute of the United States. It is a United States…

Tags: CDC, Diseases, Media, Public Health, United States

Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute, June 2003

Rudolf Jaenisch (born 22 April 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is…

Tags: Biology, Cancer, Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Transgenic Science

First photo - U.S. Government Printing Office. Second photo - U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, First photo - 1945. Second photo - 1999

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information…

Tags: Biomedical, Diseases, Health, Library of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, NLM, Researcg

World Health Organization, World Health Organization Archives, World Health Organization, 1995

A WHO poster commemorating the eradication of smallpox, stored in the archives.

The World Health Organization retains their own records and…

Tags: Archives, Diseases, Posters, Smallpox, WHO, World Health Organization

Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, Louis Pasteur, Discoverer of Lifesaving Vaccines, Albert Gustaf Aristedes Edelfelt, 1885

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first…

Tags: Anthrax, Diseases, Germ Theory, Louis Pasteur, Puerperal Fever, Rabies, Vaccines

Columbia University, Finding a Cure for Huntington's Disease, Columbia University, None

For her groundbreaking work in the scientific and public arenas towards finding a cure for Huntington's disease and for increasing awareness of all…

Tags: Diseases, Genetics, Huntington's Disease, Nancy Wexler, Science

Imperial War Museum, Penicillin, Imperial War Museum, Between 1939 and 1945 - first photo, July 20 2009 - second photo

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Tags: Antibiotics, Diseases, Penicillin, Science, Syphilis, World War II

National Archives & National Library of Medicine, Public Health Posters, National Archives & National Library of Medicine, 1944 - First Picture, 1940s - Second Picture

In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health…

Tags: Advertising, Diseases, Flies, Health, Posters, Public Health, Syphilis

National Library of Medicine, Public Health Poster, National Library of Medicine, Mid 1940s

In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health…

Tags: Diseases, Posters, Public Health, Syphilis

Chicago Department of Health, Diphtheria Strikes, Library of Congress, 1941

This poster is one of the 907 posters produced by Work Projects Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA.The posters…

Tags: Diphtheria Strikes, Diseases, FDR, Posters, WPA