That's important because women falsely diagnosed as a mutation carrier might undergo prophylactic mastectomy unnecessarily.
Europe is just a case of more prophylactic measures for the euro, not curative medicine.
These female-friendly technologies are vaginal microbicides and prophylactic drugs (though the latter would work for men, too).
Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure.
Typically, a baby born to a woman with HIV would be given two drugs as a prophylactic measure.
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%.
Politics and the state, once seen as the prophylactic that would invigorate the country, were now seen as the disease.
I'm not saying that prophylactic mastectomy is the right choice for a woman with BRCA1, simply that it is a reasonable one.
It is certainly harder to do such prophylactic things today than it would have been at the outset of the Obama presidency.
Postsurgical infections occur only in 1 in 200 patients at Intermountain versus 1 in 50 nationally, thanks to its on-time prophylactic antibiotic program.
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.
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.
"Most women with hereditary risk would like an alternative to prophylactic mastectomy, " says Tom Frank , Myriad's medical director and vice president of medical services.
What's thankfully absent are mosquitoes, a deterrent in the traditional game-viewing area in the north of the country, where tourists dose themselves with prophylactic medications.
There are alternatives, such as bed nets and prophylactic drugs, but limitations of cost, user acceptance and infrastructure mean that they offer no easy fix.
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Prophylactic drugs work by stopping it breeding after it gets in.
Following the government move, the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in November 1992, ruled docking to be unethical, "unless for therapeutic or acceptable prophylactic reasons".
More important, his advisers see tough words now as a prophylactic a warning that Beijing must not be tempted to prop up its staggering economy by weakening the yuan.
In 2007 the American Heart Association changed the guidelines so that only people at highest risk for developing infective endocarditis are now advised to receive prophylactic antibiotics before invasive procedures.
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Furthermore, the circumstances in which the Royal College considered prophylactic docking to be acceptable were so hedged with conditions as to make the routine docking of puppies by veterinary surgeons extremely difficult.
When we add in the cost of anticholesterol medications, anti-hypertensives, prophylactic drugs to prevent other infections, and other prescription medications, the average drug costs for people living with HIV rise even higher.
In a global study conducted by Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute in Toronto, the United States had the highest rate of prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Arguably, it would be hard to find another example of a U.S Government agency mandating more sweeping prophylactic economic regulation based on virtually no substantive evidence of a legitimate problem warranting Federal Government intervention.
This meeting will be the first-of-its-kind on this subject, a large conference open to the public and aimed at educating the rest of us about these threats, and impelling the adoption of prophylactic measures.
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.
The solution they seem to miss resides in a direct appeal to business self-interest, emphasizing how and why Wall Street and its corporate brethren ought to pursue reputational strategies because doing so will generate prophylactic benefits as well as bottom-line enhancements short-term and long.
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