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World Water Day
Since 1993, the United Nations has celebrated 22 March as World Water Day to raise awareness of the 2.2 billion…
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World Women’s Day
The United Nations (UN) officially declared March 8 as International Women’s Day, as an action aimed at combating gender discrimination…
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World Hearing Day
Hearing health is observed every year on March 3. In the WHO Region of the Americas, approximately 21.52% of the…
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MeSH Class 3 descriptors: “check tags”
Virtually every biomedical article will describe subjects of research (human or animal; mice or rats, etc). Clinical articles will describe…
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Omics sciences
When navigating the hierarchy under the descriptor Genomics, one finds a set of descriptors that have something in common: the…
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World Cancer Day
PAHO is working with countries in the Americas to reduce premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, by 25%…
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World Leprosy Day
Leprosy is one of the 30 diseases or conditions that the PAHO Elimination Initiative aims to overcome in the countries…
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Indexing tips
A good indexer: A good indexer shall not: From: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/indexing/training/TIP_030.html
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Universal Health Day 2024
12 December 2024: Equitable Access with Financial Protection Investing to achieve universal health enhances equity and social cohesion, while also…
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Human Rights Day
Every December 10, the world remembers the extraordinary achievement of that day in 1948, when nations came together to sign…
