prevention
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Today, Americans are living and working longer, and yet prevention hasn’t caught up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
They also raise the possibility that the gut could become a target for future strategies designed to support brain health and prevention earlier in life.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
In college she wasn’t sure whether to work on pandemic prevention or AI safety, but seven years ago she chose AI safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
As part of her recovery and healing, Pritchett now raises money for knife crime prevention charities.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
In front of the cabin’s lone window, Owen saw another polar bear prevention device: a ratty old couch.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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
However, year by year, as sheds and fences and other preventions are multiplied, railroad delays caused by snow become fewer and fewer.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Mary Mapes Dodge
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