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Parents, health professionals, teachers, community groups, and others can use these special times to sponsor health promotion events, stimulate awareness of health risks, or focus on disease prevention.

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March

Mental Retardation Awareness Month

National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

National Eye Donor Month

National Kidney Month

National Nutrition Month

Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month

3-9 Save Your Vision Week

4-8 National School Breakfast Week

10-16 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week

11-17 Brain Awareness Week

17-23 National Poison Prevention Week

17-23 National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week

24 World Tuberculosis Day

27 American Diabetes Alert

Source: 2002 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.