People use this data to advocate for causes, rescue disaster victims, prevent diseases, research markets, locate pools of skilled workers and more.
And, vaccines that can prevent diseases like flu and cancer are underused.
"As we improve health services, and in particular as we move towards a model of a health care where you can predict and prevent diseases developing, there should be significant financial savings, " Milburn said.
In the far future, it may be possible to prevent genetic diseases from being inherited by cutting them out of the gene pool once and for all, so-called germline engineering.
The studies are not definitive, but they are likely to further add to the glow surrounding the statins, which are proven to prevent heart attacks and may also prevent other diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
There was an obvious need to prevent the diseases that were causing such a huge burden: losing the children you love, caring for the chronically ill, and being unable to provide for your family due to illness.
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"With 820, 000 people affected by dementia in the UK, and that number increasing, we urgently need to find ways to prevent the diseases that cause it - that requires a massive investment in research, " Dr Ridley added.
Thanks to bipartisan federal support for medical research, we are on the verge of new treatments to prevent or delay diseases from Parkinsons to Alzheimers, from arthritis to cancer.
This suggests that protein engineering might be used to treat, and perhaps even to prevent, amyloid diseases, by allowing the manufacture of drugs that stabilise the relevant parts of the protein at risk.
Eating less may prevent the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to research.
That's an important tool to prevent long-term diseases that can cost us a lot of money.
Researchers suggest this could prevent the onset of diseases affecting the brain, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Commercially processed salts can taste bitter: Since WW II, iodine has been added to prevent thyroid-related diseases (such as cretinism).
We must personally do everything we can to prevent expensive, chronic diseases.
Dynavax Technologies (DVAX) is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops products to prevent and treat infectious diseases, asthma and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Having overcome a pre-diabetic diagnosis at age 18, Vineet understood that accessible health education is essential to helping patients prevent or curb chronic diseases.
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China's decision comes several months after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from the list of diseases that prevent non-U.S. citizens from entering the country.
We educate the public about the behaviors that lead to HIV and AIDS and ways to prevent the spread of these diseases.
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Writing in the Observer, Mr Cameron said there was a moral reason why action should be taken to prevent children dying from common diseases.
Omada will use the funds to market its pre-diabetes Prevent program, and address other diseases.
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Small dietary changes could prevent, delay or treat chronic diseases and certain kinds of cancer for each individual.
"It would raise revenue that government could put towards health promotion and other public health interventions to prevent obesity and reduce other cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, " she added.
Hayes said his organization supported the use of embryo screening to help prevent the passing on of serious diseases and disorders like Cystic Fibrosis, but is wary of other technologies and how genetic screening and alteration can be misused.
And we have found cures for diseases while developing vaccines to prevent others.
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The technique could be used to prevent debilitating and fatal "mitochondrial" diseases, which are passed down only from mother to child.
Professor Tuszynski said that although it was still relatively early days, if the findings were confirmed it would be the first treatment that doctors had to actually prevent cell death in people with neurological diseases.
Today we pay doctors and hospitals to treat diseases and injuries but not to prevent them from occurring in the first place.
At the same time, we are seeing increasing rates of diseases and conditions that tonsillectomies can prevent or cure, like infections, and even cancer, of the tonsils.
Unfortunately, the ship did not prevent the passengers from contracting scurvy and other contagious diseases and over half of those that sailed from England did not even make it to the spring.
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