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prevention

[pri-ven-shuhn] / prɪˈvɛn ʃən /


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Identifying specific chemicals associated with Parkinson's could help researchers develop prevention strategies and determine whether previously exposed individuals might benefit from additional neurological monitoring.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Today, p-tau217 can help identify people at high risk for future Alzheimer's dementia for participation in prevention trials," said Sperling.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Our HIV business grew 18% and HIV prevention sales nearly doubled year-over-year,” Chief Executive Officer Daniel O’Day said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The video, posted on Friday, teases the release of a longer YouTube video to come on Saturday, in which Vanessa and Kai Trump will discuss breast cancer awareness and prevention, Kai wrote in the caption.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

It had launched programs for women’s literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

As a budding health reporter, I tried to learn everything I could about Alzheimer's and wrote about new research on preventions and treatments that everyone wanted to believe had potential.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2022

Whatever cures are known, and preventions that are practiced now, could have been common knowledge centuries ago.

From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks


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