Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure.

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Typically, a baby born to a woman with HIV would be given two drugs as a prophylactic measure.

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College lawyers incorrectly believe that speech codes can be a prophylactic measure against lawsuits for harassment or discrimination.

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In a test of its power as a prophylactic it reduced the incidence of the disease by only 31%.

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About 50 people who were in Daschle's office at the time the letter was opened have begun a prophylactic regimen of antibiotics, Nichols said.

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Europe is just a case of more prophylactic measures for the euro, not curative medicine.

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That's important because women falsely diagnosed as a mutation carrier might undergo prophylactic mastectomy unnecessarily.

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I'm not saying that prophylactic mastectomy is the right choice for a woman with BRCA1, simply that it is a reasonable one.

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Now there's more good news: Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have concluded that red wine may also protect the brain from damage after a stroke and even provide some prophylactic protection before an individual is hit with this dreaded affliction.

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Looking for a cheap replacement, he came up with a combination of dapsone, an old leprosy medication, and chlorproguanil or Lapudrine, an old malaria prophylactic.

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