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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas A. Edison

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Thomas A. Edison

We needed a fund-raiser for the prevention of child abuse.

Russ Smith

It has been the policy of the Bush Administration to tell other countries how they should and should not run their family planning, pregnancy, and HIV prevention and treatment agencies.

Robin Collins

Prevention of childhood obesity needs to begin before a woman ever gets pregnant.

Pamela Salsberry

Research about the prevention of obesity should consider infancy, as well as childhood.

Dr Janis Baird

Community funding plays a significant role in helping Prevention Minnesota achieve its ambitious goal of making Minnesota a healthier place to live, work, and play. This is yet another way we're able to get local communities involved in improving the health of Minnesotans.

Marc Manley

In these four villages, control and prevention actions will be started.

Upma Chawdhry

As much as possible, we've got to get that energy into prevention as well.

Jim Kim

It really should be taken out of the realm of politics. It's a public health job. The head of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) isn't a political appointment, and it's in the same realm.

Raymond Woosley

I think we need to stop pigeonholing these disease entities and start looking at wellness and health prevention overall.

Cherry Loney

We have more scientific know-how today than we did before. We know the vulnerability; we know the hot spots. But prevention is far more the exception than the norm.

Vinod Thomas

This was a breakthrough because they (DOJ) realized that prevention needed to be addressed at an early age.

Linda Clark

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Ashley Judd

The Federal government continues to support the critical work of our nation's firefighters through the Fire Prevention and Safety grants by addressing the issues that can help prevent fires from happening.

Charlie Dickinson

Our research suggests that prevention must begin at home. We need a public health campaign that educates all adults and children in the home on the importance of creating a family environment that promotes healthy habits.

Ashley Fenzl Crossman

Right now there is a lot of emphasis on treatment, which is appropriate, but prevention is also important, and HIV testing clearly helps to avert HIV infections. For every $92 invested in free HIV testing and counseling at an organization such as KIWAKKUKI, an HIV infection can be averted.

Nathan Thielman

In 1961, Congress decided to proclaim National Poison Prevention Week so we could get information out to people and let them know how important it is to keep children away from poisons.

Lori Brenner

No system is fail-proof. Any child abuse prevention expert will attest to the same thing. No matter what you do, you are not going to have a system that will be 100 percent effective.

Michael Kaufman

It's really critical that we address prevention. If we take everybody off the streets today, there would be new people on the streets tomorrow.

Sarah Snyder

I do a lot of programs on crime prevention, and when a community puts its foot down that it will not tolerate crime, it can have a bigger impact than law enforcement will ever have.

Bill Rose

The U.S. government is doing nothing to ensure that any attention is being paid to the spread of the epidemic among men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women, particularly in Africa. This negligence could sabotage the entire HIV prevention effort overseas.

Paula Ettelbrick

In 2000, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommended this (tracking BMI) as a better way to track growth patterns.

Beth Trapani

As long as we allow [HIV] to be tied to religious beliefs, we're always going to fight an unfair battle when it comes to HIV prevention and education.

Larry Parham

We have that problem on this reservation as well. Hopefully, the money we make out of this can go to prevention to help our children to understand the effects of alcohol and drugs, and to do a lot more research, gathering a lot more data.

Bill Burke

Rates of colorectal cancer screening should be as good as or better than mammography rates if the nation really wants to gain the greatest level of benefit from both a prevention and early detection standpoint.

Durado Brooks

We can't do much about chronic disease prevention from my office. I can tell you to lose a few pounds on television, and you're going to say, 'Yeah, right,'.

Tim Sale

We are bringing in U.S. experts to help ... our CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in particular is helping them to figure out ways in which they can reduce the spread of the virus.

Jendayi Frazer

The statements that I have heard are completely untrue and completely mischaracterize effective prevention programs.

Mark Dybul

Prevention and control of bird outbreaks is of chief importance. If we fail to do that well, then sooner or later there will be transmission from birds to human.

Jia Youling

The biggest thing is prevention of heat illness and we're definitely all over that.

Jeff Hogan

Our police officers also say they need help lobbying for resources for prevention and treatment. Dismantling labs leaves them with less time to chase bad guys.

Jeffrey Greene

Just building a house, just going into a community and trying to figure out what the problems are, that doesn't really have anything to do with crime prevention. What it has to do is building a trust between the agency and the community.

Roger Wade

This change would allow the state to better assess the needs of individual children and try prevention tactics on the front-end so some of these kids don't have to be have to be placed in an institution. Some of these kids don't necessarily need to be in there.

Jeff Stensland

Great clinical strides have been made in breast, colorectal and prostate cancer prevention.

Scott Lippman

This finding suggests new approaches to the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

Jamey Marth

But we're still not doing as well as we can with prevention.

Yvette Highsmith Francis

If people could get a condom as conveniently and naturally as buying a Chinese cabbage, the AIDS prevention function carried out by condoms could finally imbue people's lives and change their bias (against condoms).

Tao Ran

Prevention is very broad. It is not just prevention of cancer development, but includes advances in diagnosis and treatment that reduce suffering and mortality from the disease.

Bernard Levin

A shift in culture at Brown is what we need to all be considering. Let's provide alternatives, prevention programs, ways to keep alcohol from being the center of culture at Brown.

Nancy Barnett

It's essential to Florida to pass a bill that focuses on suicide prevention because of our very high numbers.

Sen. Evelyn Lynn

It will provide prevention measures and education for the community as to the problems here and also the fact that we are not unique.

Terry Kerr

We realized that the POS data is not only important for loss prevention, but a lifeline for other business units.

Arshad Masood

The government has worked hard to strengthen preparedness and prevention efforts and good progress has been made.

Dida Connor

She was caught by a loss prevention officer at Wal-Mart.

Julissa Martinez

A part of me hates to see them go. But the fact of it is, we can operate more efficiently by utilizing other means of fire prevention, and that's our job.

Ken Cabe

In women, aspirin prevents strokes and doesn't have any real effect on heart attack, and in men aspirin prevents heart attacks but has no effect on the prevention of strokes. So there appears to be a gender-based difference in the beneficial effect of aspirin.

Dr. David Brown

The government's interest also extends to the prevention of smuggling of aliens and of bombs, explosives or other implements of terrorism that likewise may be concealed in gas tanks.

Theodore Olson

The party is just one small piece of the larger prevention effort, but it is vital to teach young people that having fun does not need to involve alcohol.

Kathleen Sullivan

What Gauntlet Systems provides is a totally new approach to quality, focused on defect prevention, enforcing best practices, and enabling accountability.

Rob Cheng

Just like in our fire prevention bureau, we can't tell how many fires we prevented but we do know by going out there and doing some of these steps that they did help reduce some of the effects of what we had going on.

Dale Simpson

We're not at maximum prevention. We would like the FDA to reconsider this matter, hold hearings and act as soon as they can.

Jennifer Howse

I am one of the few people that I know who has done the prevention, intervention and treatment. I sort of cherish that opportunity.

Margo Deane

Prevention is always better than cure!

Paul Skivington

This is the first thing I've seen that I think could have a prevention impact.

Thomas Folks

These factors make it very clear that there is an ongoing need for prevention and testing services for gay and bisexual men.

Kip Beardsley

Prevention is going to be cheaper and more effective than waiting for the pandemic to occur.

David Nabarro

It's behind the times. Condoms in today's world are much more used for disease prevention than pregnancy prevention.

Michael Weinstein

Contact your financial institution and explain what you have done. Hopefully you will fall under the loss prevention and only lose up to fifty dollars, but then again you have to get that done pretty quickly, you only have thirty days to contact your facility and let them know you have become a victim of fraud.

Dennis Horton

Until recently, alcoholism among women was largely an invisible issue. The negative stigma of chemically-dependent women has kept them from treatment, intervention and prevention.

Carl Hickey

Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.

Debbie Adair

The portability of USB devices makes it easy to accidentally infect an enterprise network with contagions carried in from a home computer. The most effective method of preventing other computers on the network from being infected is by detecting and blocking at the packet level with an inline network intrusion prevention system (IPS) like Reflex Security's.

Jim Watson

You've got to educate the public on prevention and treatment.

Rene Dexeus

Employers are realizing there's only so much we can do as far as cutting costs and passing on costs. We need to invest in prevention.

Patrick Fisher

It was difficult at first to approach them, but now we are getting along very well and I have many gay friends. And in this way, we can educate them on safe sex and prevention of AIDS or venereal diseases.

Liu Shujie

DARE tends not to be as effective for drug prevention. But it enables a child partnership with the police.

Kathy Kawaguchi

The prospect of finding a safe and effective new approach to both prevention and treatment of Alzheimer?s disease is tremendously exciting.

Gregory Cole

Screenings in general are incredibly important because cancer, like many other diseases, the first part in curing it is detecting it. So prevention is of the utmost importance.

Jennifer Robinson

The focus of the program is on managerial challenges involved in conducting HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs and their implementation.

Bakul Dholakia

[The campaign is] focused on a new idea for GE called 'Healthcare Re-Imagined'. What we mean by that is really an emphasis on early health, which moves people from late diagnosis to a focus on early prevention.

Judy Hu

We were given enough money for Category 3 prevention.

Susan Jackson

This is an attempt by the nursing department to place more emphasis on disease prevention and more health promotion.

Janice Putnam

Safe Schools: A Security & Loss Prevention Plan.

James Barry

Because of the issues that are involved, mainly as far as effective prevention is concerned, it often means targeting sex workers and their clients, intravenous drug users, men who have sex with other men.

Graham Smith

We have to have fun in everything we do or they're not going to come in the door. With the sex education and drug and alcohol prevention being such a key thing, we want to make sure everybody has the information.

Jay Faron

We applaud the B.C. government for its leadership in this important and emerging area of cancer prevention. We believe prevention holds the most promise for reducing the burden of cancer, by preventing cancer from occurring in the first place. We expect other jurisdictions will strive to emulate this B.C. initiative.

Barbara Kaminsky

The pest control industry is continually growing as prevention has become the strategy of choice.

Cindy Mannes

Governments must stop hiding in their corners and work to reach agreements on crucial poverty reduction and genocide prevention measures.

Caroline Green

The existing body of evidence ... favors the notion that potassium supplementation should be considered as part of recommendations for prevention and treatment of hypertension.

Paul Whelton

That drop in lung cancer is linked to the fact that cigarette consumption in California has dropped 50 percent, ... What we're seeing is the first disease reduction resulting from California's comprehensive tobacco prevention efforts.

David Fleming

We don't want to give out information about our fraud- prevention process.

Marjorie Rice

If our goal is to reduce the number of abortions, our focus should be on measures and programs and funding for prevention.

Sen. Scott Mccoy

They cut us along with Suicide Prevention Service and Community Human Services.

Jim Rear

With increased awareness of this connection, IBD patients can initiate or maintain an open dialogue with their physicians and discuss their personal and family history of colorectal cancer as well as symptoms and medications, which are crucial components to cancer prevention.

Mark Goldman

Crime prevention is everybody's business.

Harry Hall

People are looking to replace their firewall, or add in-line antivirus, or are looking to add intrusion prevention systems. They typically deploy with one or two services activated, and slowly migrate to new features.

Anthony James

Even young people need to know about prevention.

Amanda Harlow

We call upon you to make an immediate determination and to allow the local use of federal funds for needle exchange programs as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention program. To do anything less would be an abdication of your responsibilities.

Donna Shalala

Prevention is better than cure and a moderate rate rise is better sooner than later.

Klaus Liebscher

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

The notion is that prevention beats therapy.

Dr. William Schaffner

There are significant things that have happened since I was last in patrol. With that, my age, my heart's desire with Crime Stoppers and crime prevention and the Police Athletic League and the other programs that I've been running, I was not as interested in going back to patrol.

Todd Varner

This is great news for 12 Michigan communities who are able to take part in this comprehensive anti-drug prevention program, ... I am pleased to have co-authored this legislation and grateful to be able to watch it help hundreds of communities around the country and in my home state of Michigan.

Sander Levin

It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather deal with the consequences or the prevention?

John Allen

The big thing is prevention.

Brett Whyte

It is not a fact that people must get hospital-acquired infections. The goal ought to be the prevention of every single hospital-acquired infection.

Marc P. Volavka

There's sort of like the usual prevention messages but we feel that although this has been mentioned to some point, we really need to re-emphasize it. We're really at a point where we need to try to bring an end to this situation.

John Ricci

Any drug would need to be combined with reduction in sexual partners, HIV counseling and testing, consistent and correct condom use, and other prevention measures.

Terry Butler

Drug use prevention is the best treatment and it cost less in lives and dollars.

Frank Kelly

Most of us who believe so strongly in prevention would want to see -- the fact that women who do very simple lifestyle interventions get benefits.

Nanette Wenger

It is very important for us to get the community involved in suicide prevention. Eighty percent don't have professional help who commit suicide. We can't do it ourselves. We have to listen to them, give them help, and let the community know how to ask someone if they are suicidal.

Candice Wiggum

The control part, we've got a pretty good handle on. What we don't have a handle on is prevention. You've got a whole hell of a lot of kids in this town that don't have a lot of constructive things in their lives.

Michael Gilbert

But the most important prevention is for people to observe hygiene.

Omar Suleiman

Where we have to go is, try to begin working harder at prevention.

Peter Sakai

I look at it as prevention, being proactive. A lot of what we treat here is the result of unhealthy lifestyles.

Nancy Wright

This just shows you that we really need to put more resources on prevention. No matter how well we plan, you can't plan for everything. The big lesson is that there are limits to our response.

James Steinberg

The majority of these foods are considered ?super foods' due to their high concentrations of disease-fighting nutrients. However, their powers do not just protect men. These super foods are beneficial to both men and women in the prevention of heart disease, cancer and even aging.

Sara Murkowski

Prevention is the key.

Julie Bishop

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Olympia Snowe

What we were doing is really injury prevention and very close attention to how the training is done. I would pick up on having their tendencies to, for example, use one hip more than the other or having a misalignment of one hip or leg.

Liba Placek

We must combine hitting out [at destabilizing elements] and preventing [mishaps], with emphasis being given to prevention.

Luo Gan

Awareness of risk factors and the need for screening can go a long way toward early detection and prevention of kidney disease.

Allan Collins

There is a significant shortfall of funds in many affected countries ... which will seriously hamper their prevention and control efforts.

Qiao Zonghuai

We are at this point not in any immediate danger. We are in a period in which we need to focus on prevention and helping each other as much as possible.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Bernard Levin

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Julie Bishop

Brazil is one of the world leaders in AIDS prevention as well as in providing access to treatment and drugs.

Michael Weinstein

He took a shot on a kickoff return at the end of that game. He was sore enough that they felt as prevention, it would be best to hold him out.

Dave Shelbourne

The best protection for public health is prevention, not cleanup.

John Mcnabb

Care is an absolute. Prevention is the ideal.

Christopher P. Howson

We should concretely enhance our sense of urgency and responsibility in the prevention and control of the highly pathogenic bird flu.

Hui Liangyu

Of course there will be a Dakar 2007 with a great deal of work on security and prevention.

Etienne Lavigne

We need to invest in prevention because it's better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it's better for us as a nation because we're not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic diseases.

Elizabeth Ward

The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; the relief of real distress, whether arising from sickness or other causes; and the prevention.

Elizabeth Fry

Our primary mission right now is the prevention of terrorist activity.

Ed Cogswell

There is a crisis of prevention in this country. There are 1,400 new infections every day. That must stop.

Zackie Achmat

There is a crisis of prevention in this country.

Zackie Achmat