The week before Memorial Day (May 20–26, 2019) is Healthy and Safe Swimming Week. The goal of this awareness week is to maximize the health benefits of swimming by minimizing the risk of illness and injury. Just 2.5 hours of physical activity every week, including water-based physical activity, can benefit everyone’s health. Each of us plays a role in preventing...
Do you know the minimum SPF needed to protect yourself from the sun's harmful rays? Or how many seconds you should wash your hands to kill germs? Test your health IQ to see how your health skills stack up. Choose from three levels of difficulty or be surprised by selecting a Random mix. Each quiz delivers a mix of 10...
Through an innovative public-private partnership, the National Institutes of Health and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) have created a new health educational curriculum — EatPlayGrow: Creative Activities for a Healthy Start — for children ages 2-5 and their parents. The curriculum was launched today at a press conference in New York City attended by George Mensah, M.D., senior advisor...
David J. Sencer CDC Museum open on Smithsonian magazine Museum Day Live! New exhibit examines health equality over last 120 years in the United States What The exhibit, Health is a Human Right: Race and Place in America, looks back through history at how minority groups have experienced health problems differently, helps us understand why these differences persist, and examines...
Many of today’s important medications are biological products, generally derived from living material from humans, animals, or microorganisms. These products treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, anemia, low white blood cell counts, inflammatory bowel disease, and various forms of cancer. Unlike other drugs known as small molecule drugs, biological products are generally highly complex in structure. This webinar is designed...
New exhibition makes genome accessible to public Unique NIH-Smithsonian collaboration unlocks the present and future of genome science... The Smithsonian Institution’s first state-of-the-art exhibition about genome science, Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code, opens Friday, June 14, 2013, at the National Museum of Natural History in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a part of the National Institutes of...
National HIV Testing Day (June 27) serves as a reminder of the importance of HIV testing.Use these resources to answer your questions about HIV testing: HIV Testing Locations - Enter your ZIP code to find a testing location near you, including those that offer free HIV tests. Types of HIV Tests - Different HIV tests are used in different situations...
Sitting. Sure, it is relaxing to take a load off once in awhile... but have you ever considered how much sitting you actually do during an average day?
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The week before Memorial Day (May 20–26, 2019) is Healthy and Safe Swimming Week. The goal of this awareness week is to maximize the health benefits of swimming by minimizing the risk of illness and injury. Just 2.5 hours of physical activity every week, including water-based physical activity, can benefit everyone’s health. Each of us plays a role in preventing...