Lastly, what was left out of this new scientific paper was prevention.

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We need to listen when the scientific community focuses on prevention.

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These public data resources, made openly available in machine-readable form, include a broad range of useful information from comparison data about different health insurance plans, to product recall data from the Food and Drug Administration, to epidemiological data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to scientific information from the National Institutes of Health, and much more.

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Very recently the Institute of Medicine of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Science published a review of the scientific literature and noted that vitamin D may be linked to heart disease, immune function, cancer prevention and diabetes.

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But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.

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