prevention
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He added: “A food-safety system that can only identify a contaminated product after thousands of people report the same illness is not a prevention system. It is a documentation system.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
But decades of research and community-based prevention efforts tell us otherwise.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Unlike state-backed PIX, private providers, many of them American, must also cover fraud prevention, technology and shareholder returns through fees, making it nearly impossible for them to compete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Because there is no cure for dementia or widely accessible treatment, the guidelines emphasised that prevention remains the most effective strategy to reduce the number oc cases.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
A year later he became director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, focusing on initiatives to help poor countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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"There were these pressure alarm mats, but as soon as you stood on them, they would slip from underneath your feet – they were used as preventions, but were actually causing the falls."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
U.S. taxpayers invested billions of dollars in the effort and were able, until recently, to access treatments and preventions for the virus without paying out-of-pocket for them.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
"Epidemic preventions have been lifted...COVID-19 testing sites are mostly being dismantled... So, because right now in Chaoyang district cases are quite high, it is better to stock up on some medicines," he said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg said at the time that the reason for it was a search syndication agreement with Microsoft, and that more updates on third-party tracker preventions were coming.
From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022
One of the best of these preventions is a system of fire lanes.
From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William
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