February 7-14: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Congenital Heart Disease is considered to be the most common birth defect, and is a leading cause of
birth-defect related deaths worldwide.
CHD Awareness Week is an annual awareness effort to help educate the public about Congenital Heart
Defects. Participants include individuals, local support groups, national and local organizations and
congenital cardiology centers throughout the world.
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LifeScience Moment: Basic amphetamine nasal inhalers become available only by prescription.
On February 10, 1959, the FDA announced that nasal inhalers containing basic amphetamine can be sold only
by prescription. Previously this product (used for relieving nasal congestion) had been sold directly to
the public.
Basic amphetamine has been replaced by safer, more effective prescription and over-the-counter (OTC)
products for relieving nasal congestion.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Bacteria Culture
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Science Quote
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
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Archimedes, Greek mathematician
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(287?-212 BC)
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The Genelex biotechnology laboratory space is located at at 3000 First Avenue in Seattle’s
Belltown neighborhood with Puget Sound views, and blocks from the waterfront, Sculpture Park
and many lunch spots. The building is available March 1, 2012.
