Features from this Week: World Sickle Cell Day, Take Pride in Your Health, Safe Medicine Storage, and more!

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Read personal stories from two women whose lives changed forever due to sickle cell disease

Week in Review

World Sickle Cell Day

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder that causes “sickle” shaped red blood cells that can stick together, blocking blood flow and oxygen from reaching all parts of the body. This World Sickle Cell Day (observed every year on June 19), find new stories and resources about sickle cell disease!

Read personal stories >

Take Pride in Your Health

Whether or not you are LGBT yourself, you may not know that there are many health concerns affecting LGBT people, including increased prevalence of cigarette smoking. It’s important to bring attention to these issues year-round—not only during Pride.

Commit to quit smoking >

Safe Medicine Storage About 50,000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn’t looking. These emergency visits can be prevented by always putting every medicine up and away and out of children’s reach and sight every time you use it. Protect your children >

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a serious, sometimes deadly, bacterial disease spread through the bite of an infected tick. Roughly 4,000-6,000 tickborne spotted fevers, including RMSF, are reported in the United States each year.

Learn the signs and symptoms of RMSF >

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.

As of June 19, 2020 In the United States, there have been 2,178,710 confirmed cases of COVID-19 detected through U.S. public health surveillance systems in 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. U.S. Cases

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