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Business Journals, Dr. Emil Kakkis, American Geneticist, Business Journals, Unknown

Dr. Emil Kakkis is an American geneticist who works to fight against rare diseases and disorders. In 2009, Emil Kakkis created the Kakkis EveryLife…

Tags: Biotech, Diseases, Emil Kakkis, Genetics

Social Hygiene Division Army Educational Commission, Will You Be a Free Man or Chained, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1918

This poster, released by the Social Hygiene Division (Army Educational Commission) was designed to spread awareness about venereal disease. This…

Tags: Campaign, Diseases, Public Health, Social Hygiene Division, Venereal Disease, World War I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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