Early identification and drug treatment of malaria can reduce the severity of the disease and prevent death.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

But it does not prevent more changes in the brain that are caused by the disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

He says because of the complex nature of the disease, early detection through screening is the best way to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The researchers say while exercise helps prevent disease, the only way that heavier women can lose weight is to simply cut calories.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

"The only way we can get rid of it is to tell the people how to prevent themselves and how to get rid of the disease,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

It was one man's vision that if just two drops, from a bottle like this one, could prevent children from getting the disease, that global eradication could be within reach.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

But others say more regulation would be a mistake. The livestock industry and the nation's leading veterinarians' group says the antibiotics are helping to prevent animal disease, which ultimately makes the food supply safer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

(Recording) Toure says civil society groups face many challenges to changing the way the epidemic is spread including finding sustainable financing, integrating the work of anti-tuberculosis campaigns, reducing the stigmatization and discrimination surrounding the disease, improving access for treatment, and boosting efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

and also intensify vaccination against all infectious agents, all viruses that are known to be strongly associated with the development of cancer. The government should increase its efforts to prevent illnesses with links to cancer, he says,such as hepatitis, a disease of the liver, and the human papillomavirus, which is transmitted during intercourse and is linked to cervical cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16