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prevention

[pri-ven-shuhn] / prɪˈvɛn ʃən /


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Newport Beach has declared a local emergency ahead of the tides and activated its emergency operations center, gearing up for flood prevention and response efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

According to the White House, the aim is to support policy reforms to ensure that women’s research is well-funded and that women have access to “stage-specific prevention, diagnoses, treatment, and care.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The report then scanned this across differences in NCD burden, prevention and care -- by age, gender, economic status, education, place of residence, disability status, employment and migration status.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Understanding these differences could be important for improving the prevention and treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer, yet researchers have often overlooked their significance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

“We will discuss bullying prevention and conduct exercises to help build bridges between students from different social circles.”

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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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