More than half of all Americans take some type of dietary supplement, often for disease prevention.
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In the 1950s antibiotics spread to animal feed as growth promoters and for disease prevention.
Scientists believe it could be used for disease prevention and possibly launch an era of personalized medicine.
This disease prevention work is happening across the board: in human genome sequencing, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and autism.
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That means cooperation on a wide range of activities, from port security to disease prevention to combating money laundering.
An FDA spokeswoman said the CDC report will help the agency as it targets specific foods for disease prevention.
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While exploring chronic disease prevention with Adrian James who ran the medical products division, they came across a 2002 NIH study.
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The research on beta carotene supplements, however, particularly when it comes to heart disease prevention, has not shown the same benefits.
No, screening everyone in the herd is often not worth it, we are now finding out across multiple disease prevention spheres.
The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center will focus on asthma, where rates are much higher among inner-city children, particularly blacks.
Meanwhile, in the Irish Republic, which so far appears clear of foot-and-mouth, further emergency disease prevention legislation came into effect on Friday.
And those who devote their lives to doing epidemiologic research are eager, understandably, to obtain results that will contribute to disease prevention.
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control estimated, in 2009, that each year 25, 000 Europeans die as a direct consequence of a multidrug-resistant infection.
He's exploring the role of nutraceuticals in disease prevention and healthfulness.
The new leaflet explains how pet owners can get a pet passport for their dog, cat or ferret, and has advice on microchips and disease prevention.
I'm glad you asked this question, as more and more research is being done lately evaluating the role of vitamin D in health and disease prevention.
The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media reported.
The Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control has set up a nationwide program to screen for the new virus among patients diagnosed with pneumonia, state media report.
Meanwhile, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has told BBC Wales that Europe is at risk of missing its deadline for eliminating measles entirely by 2015.
Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, an oncologist and professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, where the Koop Institute is located, said he shared Koop's desire to focus on disease prevention.
It's a good thing, too: A 2001 survey found more than half the people who watch TV say they have learned something about a disease or disease prevention from a show.
In February, the FDA tagged 17 food producers, including POM, with warning letters, saying their ads violated federal laws because they were making specific claims about health benefits and disease prevention.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which monitors disease in the European Union, said initial findings suggested the virus may have originated in animals - diseases known as zoonotic.
It says the mainland's disease prevention shows "no sign of improvement" and suspects that the official data released so far may only be the "tip of the iceberg" of a mass epidemic.
In countries such as the United Kingdom, which expects a nursing shortage within the next five years, the focus is on disease prevention and public health to reduce the overall number of patients.
William Dietz, of the Centres for Disease Prevention and Control, notes that, even at the start of high school, only 30% of girls regularly exercise vigorously, and half of these stop before they leave.
"What we really want to do is encourage people to follow those guidelines for drinking, " said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Both the FTC and the FDA have set their sights on food advertising claims of health benefits and disease prevention in the past year, saying that too many companies have been marketing food as if it were medicine.
In the past several years, one of the most respected institutions in the area of disease prevention has come under scrutiny for allowing its assessments to be colored by a bias toward positive results and to be swayed by advocacy in the wider society.
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While binge-drinking rates have fallen among boys over the past 10 years, "binge-drinking rates among girls really haven't changed much over a 15-plus-year period, " said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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