The sickest patients became much more expensive because they put off care and prevention until it was too late.

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These are the two edges of the sword that have killed off advances in violence prevention in the past decades.

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Cancer-prevention efforts such as the campaign against smoking have paid off.

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He ticks off big problems: a dearth of doctors who specialize in geriatrics, meager funding for prevention of diseases like Alzheimer's, and fragmented long-term care services.

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One of my favorites is Jack Sim, the Singaporean who took a small bounty from business and set off on a crusade to clean up the world's loos as a disease-prevention strategy.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study this year that found 4 percent of U.S. adults nodded off or fell asleep at least once while driving in the previous month.

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And the prevention-focused entrepreneur will get so bogged down worrying about obstacles that his business may never get off the ground at all.

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This roughage is important in prevention of constipation and may be beneficial in preventing colon cancer and diverticulosis, the development of small pouches off the intestine.

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