prevention
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Effective prevention begins with understanding and changing those dynamics to transform hazing culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a prevention of future deaths report James Bennett, a coroner for Herefordshire, said the inability for police forces to provide round-the-clock specialist search officers was being impeded by a lack of training provision.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Today, Americans are living and working longer, and yet prevention hasn’t caught up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Professor Bundgaard believes the findings could provide an opportunity to rethink how cardiovascular prevention is carried out.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
TB programs in developing nations are generally underfunded, resulting in weak delivery systems for treatment and prevention.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
"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
Certain preventions, rather than remedies, of which there were none, were now employed by the Mayor.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
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