In the last 50-100 years we have seen incredible progress in healthcare and disease treatment and prevention.
Community health workers in villages would have computers that prompt them through color-coded questions on disease diagnostics, prevention and treatment for each individual patient.
Getting such powerful genetic analysis in over 200, 000 genetic variants in 200, 000 people is tricky but necessary and this is now starting to yield powerful tools to personalise treatment and aid prevention of coronary artery disease.
BBC: Results of Tayside gene tests help find heart disease link
Qualifying medical expenses include the costs of diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, and the costs for treatments affecting any part or function of the body.
The UK has one of the worst records in Europe in the treatment and prevention of heart disease, even though it accounts for more deaths than any other disease.
Levy writes that the concurrent decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease is likely the result of advances in both prevention and treatment, but only advances in primary prevention can explain the trend found in the autopsy studies.
FORBES: Autopsy Studies Find Large And Dramatic Drop In Early Atherosclerosis Over 60 Years
We welcomed the United States announcement of the Innovation in Science through Partners and Regional Engagement (INSPIRE) initiative, which will foster cooperation between U.S. and ASEAN scientists in such areas as pandemic flu monitoring and prevention, development of low-cost vaccines, drug treatment monitoring, health innovation, and disease research.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Lamellar was founded in 2007 to develop a new class of therapies for the prevention, treatment and control of severe respiratory disease.
Instead, we've created stovepipes of funding that reflect what's glamorous and interesting to the rich world and reflect our bias toward treatment as opposed to prevention of disease.
The narrow window of time to diagnose and successfully treat a patient makes the treatment instead of the prevention of meningococcal disease a dubious strategy.
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