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- September 1-30: Baby Safety Month
- September 1-30: Blood Cancer Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Food Safety Education Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Healthy Aging Month
- September 1-30: ITP Awareness Month
- September 1-30: National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
- September 1-30: National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
- September 1-30: National Cholesterol Education Month
- September 1-30: National Fruits and Veggies Month
- September 1-30: National Pediculosis Prevention Month/Head Lice Prevention Month
- September 1-30: National Recovery Month
- September 1-30: National Sickle Cell Awareness Month
- September 1-30: National Vascular Disease Awareness Month
- September 1-30: National Yoga Month
- September 1-30: Newborn Screening Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Pain Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
- Read more about the history of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Sepsis Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Sexual Health Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Sports Eye Safety Month
- September 1-30: Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
- September 1-30: Urology Awareness Month
- September 1-30: World Alzheimer’s Month
- September 7-13: National Assisted Living Week
- September 7-13: National Suicide Prevention Week
- September 7: World Duchenne’s Awareness Day
- September 8: World Physical Therapy Day
- September 8-14: Sexual Health Week
- September 9: International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day
- September 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
- September 13: National Celiac Disease Awareness Day
- September 13: World Sepsis Day
- September 14-20: Folic Acid Awareness Week
- September 14-20: National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
- September 15: World Lymphoma Awareness Day
- September 15-19: Malnutrition Awareness Week
- September 15-21: World Mitochondrial Disease Week
- September 16: Get Ready for Flu Day
- September 17: World Patient Safety Day
- September 18: National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
- September 18-22: Fungal Disease Awareness Week
- September 19: Aortic Dissection Awareness Day
- September 15-21: National Farm Safety and Health Week
- September 19: National Concussion Awareness Day
- September 20: Usher Syndrome Awareness Day
- September 21: World Alzheimer’s Day
- September 22: Falls Prevention Awareness Day
- September 25: World Lung Day
- September 25: International Ataxia Awareness Day
- September 25: World Pharmacists Day
- September 25: National Women’s Health and Fitness Day
- September 26: Mesothelioma Awareness Day
- September 26: Sport Purple for Platelets Day
- September 26: World Contraception Day
- September 28: World Rabies Day
- September 29: World Heart Day
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19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)