Word: preventive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Judy Blume has already risen to young Potter's defense, asking, "What's next, the Babysitters Club banned?" there are more practical reasons to prevent the censoring of the Rowling's tales...
After an initial investigation, the federal government intervened and settled with BIDMC for $920,000. BIDMC also agreed to maintain a compliance program designed to prevent fraud and misuse of federal funds...
...perhaps the top 0.1 percent income range. The reforms enacted by Glass-Steagall hit the deep-pocketed very hard by diminishing the amount of money they could amass at a time. The Act's intent was to redistribute the balance of financial clout in the American economy and thereby prevent another financial crisis like the Depression...
...detection will be available for many other types of cancer as well. A stool sample will be all that is needed to search for colon-cancer cells on their way to becoming tumors, and drugs like the new COX-2 inhibitors, which are improved versions of pain killers, can prevent those precancerous cells from progressing. By the end of the next decade, a simple blood test could alert doctors to a wide variety of cancer precursors...
...peppercorn--without growing their own blood-supply system. Researchers and patients, not to mention the owners of stock in half a dozen biotech companies, are eagerly awaiting results of clinical trials of antiangiogenic factors, which might be used in combination with chemotherapy to knock down big tumors and then prevent any surviving tumors from growing enough to do further damage...