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Research reveals that travel can build stress resilience, sharpen cognitive health and ward off depression far better than staying home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

His wife was waiting to undergo a caesarean section at the ward, which serves patients on modest incomes, but was told that she had to take her baby and leave after the procedure.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Abdul Ghafoor, another witness, told AFP he tried to get into the building to rescue patients but couldn't reach the maternity ward.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

A fire erupted in a hospital's maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing 14 infants, Pakistani authorities said, with the prime minister calling for an investigation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The bear smelled on Omakayas’s skin the smell of its own cousin’s bear grease used to ward off mosquitoes.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Just a few metres away, life was returning to the hospital, with patients admitted to wards while doctors and nurses bustled around the facility's maze-like corridors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

They work in rural clinics and hospital wards across the world, from small Caribbean islands to as far away as Italy, where poor, rural communities rely on Cuban doctors to offer basic health services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The duke chatted to some of the young patients on the wards and also some of their families.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Everything clicked for the Beatles after the well-tailored Epstein convinced his wards to forsake Hamburg leather for matching suits in 1962.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The hospital’s cavernous wards were built for another century.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Some actual Buffetts have warded off comparisons to Berkshire’s chairman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Another widely-circulated post was written by a person who said their mother was badly injured in the attack and was currently warded in a hospital's intensive care unit.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

The drug, called lolamicin, also warded off secondary infections with Clostridioides difficile, a common and dangerous hospital-associated bacterial infection, and was effective against more than 130 multidrug-resistant bacterial strains in cell culture.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

The U.S. has mostly warded off the Houthi attacks, but on one occasion recently, the Houthis shot down a U.S.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

They warded off the negative stereotypes that haunted Negroes like shadows, using tough love to protect both the errant individual and the group from her failings.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Praised for warding off pests, so-called bodega cats are also a cultural fixture for New Yorkers, some of whom are now pushing to enshrine legal rights for the little store helpers.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Nostalgia, though, is a peril that the author, an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is bent on warding off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Social media–savvy psychologists and life coaches have created a cottage industry of warding off and healing from narcissists.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

Through that work, Leal said he and other scientists have never found a product more long-lasting and overall effective at warding off mosquitoes than DEET.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Ian put his hands up as though warding me off.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben