Raoul Follereau is credited to organize the World Leprosy Day in 1954. He said, “so that people affected by leprosy could be cared for like all others who are ill and so that those in good health could be cured of their absurd and often criminal fear of this disease and those who are affected...
World Autism Awareness Day has been held every year since 9 September 1989. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution "62/139. World Autism Awareness Day," adopted on 18 December 2007, proposed by Qatar, and supported by all member states.The resolution had four main...
International MPS Awareness Day a way to honour everyone in the MPS Community, to recognize, remember and rejoice in each other. Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) diseases are genetic lysosomal diseases (LD) caused by the body's inability to produce specific enzymes. Normally, the body uses enzymes...
International Panic Day, a celebration of all things anxiety, aims to create greater awareness of the unexpected and episodic freak-outs so many of us experience during our lives. Panic is a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking,...
How boring would our world be if everyone had the same colored eyes? About 1% of the population has Heterochromia - the condition that causes different colored eyes. Eye color often is the genetic trait that fascinates parents the most as a child develops. The colored part of your eye is...
Iodine is an essential element for healthy neurological and endocrine development. A lack of iodine in the diet may lead to mental retardation, goitre, or thyroid disease. Dependent upon the severity of the deficiency, a lack of iodine can cause significant delay in mental development, something...