Walkers in the Yorkshire Dales are being asked to take precautions to prevent the spread of a disease that is threatening millions of ash trees.
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For example, lung patients with the bad EGFR mutation might be able to use the drug after surgery to prevent a reoccurrence of the disease.
The ultimate solution may be a vaccine to prevent the disease.
But in early 2010, around the same time that a vaccine to prevent meningococcal disease in infants was submitted to the FDA for approval, the CDC began to show signs of backing away from its earlier resolve.
Since the 1930s, most milk in the U.S. has been fortified with D to prevent rickets, a bone-softening disease.
In healthy women the drugs don't appear to save lives at all, and the evidence they prevent heart disease is weak: Statin takers have only a slightly better chance of avoiding heart disease than women on a placebo, according to a recent analysis.
Despite this, PHW said large numbers of people aged 10-18 years still have not had a jab which could prevent them from contracting measles, a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease.
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Drastic action is being taken in the Republic of Ireland to try to prevent the disease crossing the border after a case was confirmed in Northern Ireland on Thursday.
If some reputable agency or study declared that eating five apples a day would prevent cancer and heart disease, the price of apples would soar until growers could catch up with demand.
And to know that it's a disease that you can prevent just by eating more fruits and vegetables and getting exercise, wouldn't you guys -- don't you guys think it would be easier to eat right and run around than to be sick and have to worry about your health?
Its "Predict and Prevent" project, for example, is a disease-eradication program involving health ministries, international agencies and private sector drug and health equipment companies.
If there's more of an emphasis on wellness, prevention and the power of lifestyle changes to prevent and reverse disease, we can provide a higher quality of care at a lower cost.
The question used to shape the draft recommendations, which were posted online Tuesday, is whether hormone therapy should be used by menopausal women to prevent a hypothetical future health event such as heart disease or cognitive decline, Bibbins-Domingo said.
Leung envisions Celebrex as an "anchor drug" that would be part of a wide variety of cancer cocktails that prevent the disease from recurring, treat existing tumors or keep it from happening entirely.
Singling this group of patients out for intensive treatment, or working harder to prevent kidney disease from taking hold, could be a powerful way of reducing deaths among people with diabetes, she added.
Antibiotics are used in livestock to prevent disease, but they are also used as a protectant and to help growth.
Since the late 1960s, aspirin makers have been trying to win the right to tell the public that a daily low-dose tablet can help prevent heart disease.
Ultimately the drugs may even be able to prevent the disease from striking people at high risk because of a family history of diabetes or bad genes.
If they have the bad version, they could adjust their lifestyle by doing weight training or eating foods with a lot of calcium and vitamin-D to prevent the disease.
"By the time you get Alzheimer's disease, we'll have a drug to prevent it, " Dr. Roses promises.
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"My goal is to prevent future generations from having to make important life decisions around a chronic disease -- it's not what I want for my son, " she said.
No-one has been prosecuted for breaking it and local-authority-produced literature about homosexuality is still freely available thanks to a loophole which lifts the ban on anything intended to prevent disease, including of course, Aids.
It's not a vaccine in the traditional sense: It doesn't prevent disease.
Osiris Therapeutics of Baltimore has several trials under way using adult stem cells to treat the intestinal inflammation known as Crohn's disease, repair damaged tissue following a heart attack and prevent the progression of arthritis.
Laughter and a sense of humor may also protect against heart attacks by helping prevent heart disease, according to cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
This could influence whether a younger woman chooses to have one or both breasts removed to prevent the disease, or to take medication such as Tamoxifen which may have pronounced side-effects.
They say consuming 250 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids a day -- t he equivilant of 6 ounces a week of wild salmon or other oily fish -- could prevent heart disease.
Tamoxifen has been used for more than a decade to prevent tumors from forming in the breasts of women at risk for the disease and for two decades to treat women who already have tumors.
Dr. Bradley's home state of Oklahoma is one of several working with the One Health Initiative, a global program to improve communication between physicians and veterinarians to prevent the spread of infectious disease from animals to people, such as recommending tick collars, sprays or topical treatments with pesticides for dogs.
Imagine a world with unlimited food, water, and energy in which we prevent disease rather than cure it and in which our lifespans increase along with our wisdom and knowledge.
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