Chronic Disease Awareness Day, USA

 

Chronic Disease Day (observed on July 10th) raises awareness about long-term illnesses lasting over a year. The date (7/10) represents a vital fact: 7 out of 10 deaths are caused by these conditions. Common examples include heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. While often incurable, many can be managed or prevented.

 

 

 

 

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Omega Shaped Epiglottis

 

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Omega Shaped Epiglottis: Laryngomalacia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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World Airway Disorder Day

 

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Smoking Causes Centriacinar Emphysema  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Worlds First Communication Satellite

 Launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, Telstar 1 is recognized as the world's first active communications satellite. Built in partnership with AT&T, it successfully relayed the first transatlantic television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images between the US and Europe

 

 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Wimbledon

 

Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, was established on July 9, 1877, when the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club hosted its first-ever lawn tennis tournament in a London suburb. 

27-year-old Spencer Gore become the tournament's first champion. 

 

 

 

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World Allergy Day

 

                                    Nobel Prize In Physiology/Medicine, 1913 

                                         ANAPHYLAXIS  

In 1902, Charles Richet and Paul Portier discovered anaphylaxis, demonstrating that the immune system could produce life-threatening hypersensitivity reactions. This work earned Richet the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. During the following decades, researchers suspected that an unknown antibody, then called "reagin," 

 

 

 

In 1966, Japanese immunologists Kimishige Ishizaka and Teruko Ishizaka demonstrated that reaginic activity was due to a previously unknown class of immunoglobulin. 

Around the same time, Swedish researchers S. Gunnar O. Johansson and Hans Bennich isolated an unusual myeloma protein from a patient (coded ND) and showed that it represented the same new antibody class. 

 

 

 

1968: IgE Officially Recognised    

In 1968, the World Health Organization officially recognized this fifth class of immunoglobulin and named it Immunoglobulin E (IgE).

 

 

 

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 World Allergy Day is observed every year on July 8th to raise global awareness about allergic diseases and their prevention. Initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Allergy Organization (WAO), it empowers people to understand allergy triggers and seek timely treatment. 

 

 

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Blast From The Past: Roswell

 

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico issued a press release announcing it had recovered a "flying disc" that crashed on a local ranch. This triggered global fascination with UFOs, though the military quickly retracted the statement and claimed it was merely a weather balloon. 

 

 

 

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