prevention
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“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
Speaking at a news conference Monday touting the city’s crime drop, Bass said the racial disparities among homicides underscores the importance of prevention and intervention programs, including the mayor’s Gang Reduction and Youth Development initiative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The possibility of more targeted prevention is especially important as dementia becomes increasingly common.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The police investigation was announced at a parliamentary committee meeting in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, held to discuss the combating and prevention of money laundering.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
This brilliant medical achievement came about by an attack that was twofold — that stressed prevention as well as cure.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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