Category: Health Events

Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last M...

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Two days before the beginning of the new calendar year, the Festival of Enormous Changes at the Last Minute is observed. The symbolism derives from the idea that we all vow or make New Year's Resolutions...

January

Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month (CA):...

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Each year Alzheimer’s Canada hosts National Alzheimer’s month. 747,000 Canadians are living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias today, a number expected to increase to 1.4 million in the next...

January

Be Kind to Food Servers Month: January

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Be Kind to Food Servers Month honors the food servers who tirelessly provide service to restaurant customers, and to emphasize the need for have a better relationship between the server and the customer....

January

Bell, Let's Talk Day (CA): January 30

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Focused on mental illness, Bell Let's Talk was created in 2010 to raise awareness about the millions of Canadians struggling with mental illness and remove the stigma of discussing it. This is also a nati...

January

Big Wig Day, Ntl.: January 31

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The term 'Big Wig' originated in 1730s Europe. The wealthier you were, the larger the wig you wore. Large or big wigs were then an outward sign of a wealthy important person. In centuries later, the term...

January

Biodiversity, UN Decade on: 2011-2020

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Signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and put in force in December 1993, the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty for biodiversity conservation. <br><br>Biodiversit...

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Birth Defects Prevention Month, Ntl.: Janu...

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National Birth Defects Prevention Network sponsors National Birth Defects Prevention Month each year. See the consortium’s website for details on this year’s focus and to download materials and study a...

January

Blood Donor Month, Ntl.: January

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Each year the American Red Cross sponsors National Blood Donor Month in an effort to restock the nation’s supply of blood. You don't need a special reason to give blood. You just need your own reason. S...

January

Braille Day, World (1809): January 4

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Promoted by multiple organizations including the World Blind Union, World Braille Day celebrates the birth of Louis Braille on January 4, 1809. Braille was a Frenchman who lost his sight at a very early...

January

Bug Busting Day, Ntl. (UK): January 31

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National Bug Busting Day occur three times per year in the United Kingdom: January, June and October. It is a concentrated effort to stem the tide of lice infections within schools and the general populat...

January

Caesarean Section Day (1794): January 14

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Caesarean Section Day marks the anniversary of the first successful Caesarean Section, performed in America by Dr. Jesse Bennett January 14, 1794. This first procedure, done in the patients home in Virgi...

January

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (C...

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National CRNA Week is the AANA’s annual celebration of anesthesia patient safety and the nation’s 52,000+ Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and student registered nurse anesthetists who safely and c...

January

Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: January

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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month seeks to raise the awareness about this highly treatable disease. Multiple different screening tests for cervical cancer and there vaccines against human papilloma virus (H...

January

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (UK): Janu...

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Every day two women lose their life to Cervical Cancer and nine are diagnosed with it in the United Kingdom. Yet 75% of instances can be prevented with an annual pap smear and taking the HPV vaccination i...

January

Children Impacted by a Parents Cancer Mont...

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First run in 2000, Children Impacted by a Parent's Cancer Month seeks to support children and families where one or more parent is undergoing cancer treatment, living in remission or has died. The impact...

January

Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Da...

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Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day marks the anniversary of Surgeon General Luther L. Terry's issuance of a report on January 11, 1964 that declared cigarettes to be hazardous to health. In his o...

January

Third Intl. Decade for the Eradication of...

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Colonialism still exists to this day, and over 8 million people in 17 “non-self-governing territories” across the globe still live under it. Palestine and the West Sahara continue to exist under&nbsp;the...

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Day without a Scalpel, Ntl (1964): January...

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American surgeon, Charles Dotter performed the first angioplasty procedure on a leg, without a scalpel, in Portland Oregon on January 16, 1964. He changed how surgery could be done going forward. Day with...

January

Dental Drill Day (1875): January 26

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Today is the anniversary of the patenting of the electric dental drill by George F. Green from Kalamazoo on January 26, 1875. Although there were other patented dental drills prior to this, Green’s drill...

January

Diet Resolution Week: January 1-7

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The first seven days of each new year are considered “Diet Resolution Week". It is an unofficial event with no sponsor, born of tradition. These are the days of the year when, traditionally, people star...

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