That's not "millions" of preventable deaths, but it is still a lot of preventable deaths.
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Parents need to know that their child could die of preventable diseases, that they could spread a preventable disease and other children could die.
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Indeed, wealthy nations can stem the spread of preventable diseases by looking to the African continent where vaccine-preventable diseases like polio have almost been eradicated.
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The researchers say their findings support the "fundamental cause theory," which says disparities between advantaged and disadvantaged groups will be greater for preventable conditions than non-preventable conditions.
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""I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily ... It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight — it was preventable in foresight.
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But she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their oved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.
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This tragedy was preventable — extinction is a political choice.
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According to the National Safety Council, accidental and preventable gun deaths make up 1% of overall gun-related deaths in the US. In 2017, there were 486 accidental or preventable gun deaths.
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"It's a tragedy for Europe that a child or an adult has died because of a preventable disease," says Patrick O'Connor, a team lead in WHO Europe's Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization program.
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Smoking remains the world's number one source of preventable death.
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It's a preventable death that we can, and should, prevent.
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She says the botched recovery effort led to preventable deaths.
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Medicine shortages have also left children dying of preventable diseases.
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Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in Brazil.
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Measles is highly contagious, yet preventable with the MMR vaccine.
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But the report made clear that the problem is preventable.
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It would lose many children to preventable health conditions, too.
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The government is exposing its citizens to preventable infectious diseases.
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Three out of every five of those deaths were preventable.
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This easily could have turned into a (very preventable) tragedy.
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That's especially tragic because congenital syphilis is 100 percent preventable.
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Despite the thousands of preventable deaths, vaccine rates remain low.
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In overcrowded private detention facilities, people die of preventable causes.
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Mumps, chicken pox and influenza are easily preventable through vaccination.
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Robock emphasized that unlike that disaster, nuclear war is preventable.
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"This is a preventable tragedy," Nemeh said in the release.
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But it's preventable and it could disappear in our lifetime.
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Now I'm back to suffering with an easily preventable disease.
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Better identification of the areas where preventable deaths are greatest.
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The looming shortage is alarming, but it is also preventable.
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The police killings of Black people like this completely preventable.
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In 2017, there were 486 accidental or preventable gun deaths.
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Both are easily preventable conditions brought on by the war.
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Diseases such as distemper and parvovirus are preventable with vaccines.
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To them, illegal immigration was an epidemic of preventable deaths.
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These are all genetic defects preventable by proper breeding techniques.
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The crazy part is that all of it is preventable.
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Go deeper: Most U.S. deaths from pregnancy complications are preventable
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And smoking is the biggest preventable form of early death.
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Even worse is the terrible and preventable loss of human life.
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The majority of the deaths are preventable, according to the report.
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"This type of accident is readily preventable," that latter report suggests.
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Glad my babies don't need to suffer through preventable infectious diseases.
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Uncontrolled bleeding is the primary cause of preventable death from trauma.
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Preventable cancer drug shortages "are unacceptable and ethically unjustifiable," he said.
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Most overdoses are preventable — that's the really tragic thing about them.
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But it's preventable and it's very treatable if it's caught early.
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If one person dies of a preventable disease, it's too many.
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"It's a needless death, and it's 100 percent preventable," Gidley said.
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We are in the midst of an epidemic that was preventable.
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It did it to "make patients whole" after a preventable error.
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"These terrible injuries are preventable," he told Reuters Health by email.
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Though preventable, chronic diseases threaten to overwhelm our health care system.
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He insists some of the attacks that cost lives are preventable.
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It found that nearly 13% of those mothers' deaths are preventable.
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What makes anyone feel more alive than yelling at preventable disasters?
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The potentially preventable death of 886 New Yorkers is a crisis.
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This was easily preventable, yet the agency failed to head warnings.
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According to the CDC, 60 percent of maternal deaths are preventable.
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Malaria is completely preventable and treatable but hasn't been prevented yet.
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But the most important takeaway is that it was eminently preventable.
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And the city has the lowest rate of preventable hospital stays.
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But evidence has increasingly accumulated that cancer may be preventable, too.
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I know that the majority of all maternal deaths are preventable.
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Generally, most pregnancy-related deaths could be prevented; 60% are preventable.
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"It's really awful and really tragic and totally preventable," Hotez said.
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All genocides are deliberate and horrific; and they are always preventable.
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But here's the most frustrating part: This is all entirely preventable.
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Millions of our fellow human beings are dying of preventable diseases.
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Unnecessary imaging leads to preventable side effects, excessive costs and overdiagnosis.
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It's possible that with better technology, those are mostly preventable deaths.
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War is preventable, but I'm not sure it will be prevented.
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These scenarios are all the more disconcerting for being so preventable.
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An additional 33 staff members contracted the preventable virus as well.
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The majority of the deaths, the agency has said, are preventable.
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The hacking was "entirely preventable," a congressional study concluded in 2018.
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Trayvon Martin's death was so tragic, so unnecessary, and so preventable.
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Vision Zero starts from the premise that all accidents are preventable.
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Anything less is to wash our hands of more preventable tragedies.
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"Gun violence in America is not inevitable; it's preventable," they continued.
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Some of those crashes may have been preventable, the report said.
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Acts of abuse, particularly those against children, are preventable and inexcusable.
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This is frustrating because hearing loss is both irreparable and preventable.
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The consistent theme in these suicides is that they were preventable.
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We know that many of the everyday gun deaths are preventable.
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Last week, I reported on the problem of preventable harm in hospitals.
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Some hospitals even extend the concept of preventable harm beyond the physical.
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We also know those exemptions are linked to upticks in preventable diseases.
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It aims to wipe out malaria, TB, HIV, malnutrition and preventable deaths.
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But now, in the face of preventable tragedy, is not the time.
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"[It] is largely preventable because it's related to lifestyle factors," says Arnold.
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In theory, all suicides are preventable until the last minute of life.
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If this sounds like an easily preventable tragedy, that's because it is.
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Missouri has the 11th highest rate of preventable hospitalizations in the nation.
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Anyone would have saved Kiki, whose death was both preventable and frustrating.
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It's not 100% preventable obviously but do what you can to try.
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With every breach, another refrain is typically heard: That it was preventable.
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The 193st Largest Country loses too many kids to preventable health conditions.
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It noted that data vulnerabilities of this type are common yet preventable.
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"Gun violence is preventable when you know the signs," says the PSA.
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"It was preventable," Tempe attorney Michael Medina said, according to the Republic.
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Other things that kill us today, like cancer, are not always preventable.
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"Her death was preventable — and it should have been prevented," Sessions said.
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Apple's not the only one guilty of prioritizing design over preventable issues.
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For example, high-preventable diseases included pneumonia, flu, accidents and liver disease.
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Low-preventable diseases included pancreatic cancer, heart muscle disease, and multiple sclerosis.
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" The ad says, "Gun violence is preventable when you know the signs.
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Preventable errors have so far declined by an impressive twenty-one percent.
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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It is often the first sign of other serious vaccine-preventable outbreaks.
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But it could prevent the preventable violence that led to his death.
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But the third most common cause — preventable medical error – isn't commonly known.
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How could a person ever recover from preventable death of a sibling?
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But about 80 percent of all cases of cardiovascular disease are preventable.
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Tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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Not every attack is preventable, but the misogyny that drives them is.
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Partisan politics has superseded the need for solutions to these preventable tragedies.
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Yet this entirely preventable and treatable disease is ravaging war-torn Yemen.
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Iodine deficiency is considered the world's leading preventable cause of mental impairment.
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More than 1.5 million children die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease that is caused by a virus.
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The great tragedy of the Parkland shooting is that it was preventable.
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Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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"The United States would be drawn into a preventable war," they wrote.
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What is exceptionally clear is that many of these accidents were preventable.
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"80 percent of global blindness is treatable or preventable," the foundation said.
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It is driving a drop in emergency department visits and preventable hospitalizations.
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"The big thing with this problem is that it's preventable," Fuller said.
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"I want people to know that gun violence is preventable," she said.
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Such prescriptions bring unnecessary costs, preventable side effects and drug-resistant bacteria.
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It's all human caused and preventable if we would just pay attention.
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Early detection could reduce costly hospitalizations of patients due to preventable illnesses.
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Suicide is preventable, and if you are feeling suicidal, please get help.
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And while it's true that the current count of 27 cases (and rising) of locally-acquired Zika infection in the Miami region don't stack up numbers-wise against preventable illnesses like influenza, the key word difference here is preventable.
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"The number one cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents," the ad said.
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This kind of hearing loss is "preventable, but it's also irreparable," she added.
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Fortunately, one of the most common reasons for checkout delays is rather preventable.
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"What really goes through my mind is one seems completely preventable," she said.
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Measles is highly contagious but preventable with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
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A quarter of those hospitalizations are preventable, according to one 2012 federal study.
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Gillibrand said, which results in women dying of preventable, but potentially fatal conditions.
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In short, measles is the canary in the coalmine of vaccine preventable illnesses.
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Frequent, preventable injuries are also a hallmark of the Fremont plant, Moran claims.
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Lack of routine health care can lead to an increase in preventable hospitalizations.
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The regime that caused this preventable tragedy professes great love for the poor.
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Tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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The bottom line: "These injuries may have been preventable," the study's conclusion states.
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Public health officials determined it's a strain that is preventable with a vaccine.
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"This disease is totally preventable with protective shoes and foot hygiene," Kihembo said.
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Research shows that half of these chronic diseases could be preventable, at least.
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But with some eyes and ears to the ground, they are totally preventable.
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She works at several emergency sites and believes few visits are truly preventable.
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"Youth suicide is a preventable public health problem," she said in an email.
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Maternal and infant deaths are largely preventable, according to the World Health Organization.
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And "stroke is a preventable disease, for the most part," Dr. Cole says.
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Nearly 22019 percent of these deaths are preventable, according to the CDC Foundation.
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McConnell said gum disease is preventable by bringing your pet for wellness checkups.
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They had fewer hospitalizations, especially preventable hospitalizations, for any number of chronic disorders.
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The FCC has previously fined carriers for 911 outages that it deemed preventable.
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Yet smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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"No more pregnant and postpartum women should die from preventable causes," she said.
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Part of our agony is that so many of these massacres are preventable.
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Winning the fight against preventable diseases like AIDS, TB, and malaria is possible.
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After all, the vast majority of preventable medical errors don't result in death.
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More Americans die of preventable illnesses than residents of many other Western countries.
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This means a completely preventable death happened every 53 minutes in this country.
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Lives are at stake: loss of coverage associated with thousands of preventable deaths.
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It costs the healthcare system almost $300 billion in preventable healthcare expenditures annually.
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In some places, low vaccination rates have led to outbreaks of preventable disease.
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For some critics, the question isn't what's legally justified but rather what's preventable.
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And the CDC Foundation estimates that 60 percent of these deaths are preventable.
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What's troubling here is that many of these causes of death are preventable.
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Suicide is preventable, and if you are feeling suicidal, you must get help.
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SACRAMENTO — If suicide is preventable, why are so many people dying from it?
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The virus is now preventable by a newer vaccine, first produced in 2009.
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Any compromise on guns or health care is an acceptance of preventable deaths.
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"Gun violence in America is not inevitable; it's preventable," the business leaders wrote.
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No one should die of cervical cancer in 43, for it's highly preventable.
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Hundreds of people are dying from a preventable and treatable illness every day.
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But nearly half of all cancer diagnoses are linked to preventable lifestyle factors.
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We accept them as the cost of mobility, but they are all preventable.
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All things that are preventable with condoms, dental dams, testing, medications and communication.
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"We know that domestic violence homicide is predictable and therefore preventable," she says.
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More than 140,000 people died from the vaccine-preventable disease in 2018 alone.
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And yet, according to Polito, the hold-up on the photos was preventable.
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No known methods or procedures have succeeded in abolishing preventable harm to patients.
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Amy had suffered a preventable massive stroke, related to severe high blood pressure.
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Heart disease is actually very treatable and, more importantly, preventable — if caught early.
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And a network of hospitals and community groups organized by the city's public hospital system had a 29.5 to 2166 percent decline in potentially preventable readmissions and potentially preventable emergency room visits from July 22012 to June 270, meeting its targets.
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Measles is highly contagious yet preventable with a vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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"But we don't really discuss how people become infected with every vaccine-preventable disease."
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" As for whether a tooth infection-related death could be preventable, Niederman says, "Yes.
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Graff concludes his report by stating that even though suicide is complex, it's preventable.
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That's put autistic kids at greater risk for contracting vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
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In the meantime, a serious case of vaccine-preventable illness could lead to hospitalization.
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"The university has taken no responsibility for Lauren's preventable death," Jill McCluskey told reporters.
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And gun violence is preventable, but not without the passage of stronger gun laws.
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"Such preventable outages are unacceptable," the FCC wrote in a statement announcing the settlement.
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Nothing is ever open when you're awake and you slowly succumb to preventable diseases.
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Deaths from preventable causes, such as firearm deaths and homicides, seem to be up.
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Equifax breach was 'entirely preventable' had it used basic security measures, says House report
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One of the most preventable causes for animal injury is from humans feeding wildlife.
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An estimated 110,000 people died last year, mainly children, from the vaccine-preventable disease.
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That are preventable and lifestyle based, like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure.
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I mean, 75% of our healthcare costs are because of stress-related, preventable diseases.
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With hindsight, I now realize my rift with my co-founder was entirely preventable.
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Flight diversions are never fun, and they're even worse when the cause was preventable.
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The spectrum of conditions related to fetal alcohol exposure is completely preventable, experts say.
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Toothaches, back pain and headaches were the most common forms of preventable ER visits.
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"In this case, it was a very preventable accident," Private Rahe told the Blade.
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What makes these statistics even more tragic is that these deaths are completely preventable.
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It's the third leading preventable cause of death in the US, the institute says.
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The return of easily preventable diseases that had all but disappeared is a shame.
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According to The Lancet, 22019 percent of preventable child deaths are attributable to malnutrition.
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"This is a preventable tragedy," Nemeh said, per a news release from the hospital.
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This is often because they think it is unnecessary, preventable and requested too frequently.
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The worst part of it all are the repeated references to suicide being preventable.
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Ending preventable maternal and child deaths will not be reached without accelerating targeted progress.
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"It would be terrible to get sick when it's so easily preventable," Slone said.
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Juul noted that smoking combustible cigarettes is the number one cause of preventable death.
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"This burden we're putting in the health care system is entirely preventable," he said.
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But when it comes to preventable disease, each individual should be responsible for themselves.
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Let's hope no other American families are forced to endure this very preventable heartache.
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Although not all illness is preventable, a healthy lifestyle can go a long way.
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About 70% of the adverse events were preventable, researchers report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Health experts say tobacco use is the single biggest preventable cause of death globally.
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What happened to Flint is a terrible human health tragedy that was entirely preventable.
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We see far too many really preventable shootings because firearms have been left out.
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Measles are easily preventable -- one vaccination dose is 93% effective at preventing the disease.
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In reality, the status quo is a public-health crisis, and a preventable one.
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The vaccination rate in Arkansas soared, and the incidence of preventable infections quickly plummeted.
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A child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen from preventable causes, according to Unicef.
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And these have two main causes, both of which are preventable: tobacco and obesity.
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"What really goes through my mind is one seems completely preventable," she told reporters.
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Background: Measles is a highly contagious disease that is 97% preventable after two vaccinations.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), which aims to reduce the amount of preventable maternal deaths.
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Cybersecurity experts say phishing is a rising threat, but that it&aposs largely preventable.
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Many of the health problems that lead to maternal death are treatable and preventable.
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The fact that these deaths are absolutely preventable makes them all the more tragic.
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Measles, of course, is easily preventable, with two doses making the vaccine 97% effective.
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We know more about epidemic preparedness than ever, but preventable infectious disease outbreaks continue.
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Mbeki's stance has been blamed by health activists for more than 300,000 preventable deaths.
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This is partly due to acting on smoking and other preventable cancer risk factors.
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There's nothing great about letting your citizens die from preventable and curable diseases, right?
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And all of these tragedies were preventable had there been better access to treatment.
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Here's a look at the trends, and the top 10 causes of preventable deaths.
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To be clear, vaccine-preventable outbreaks in the US aren't unique to immigrant communities.
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There are a variety of reasons for the decline in preventable deaths among children.
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Ten thousand children younger than 5 dying of not just disease but preventable disease.
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It is a safety and quality program that challenged our staff to meet one basic goal: We needed to not only lower the rate of preventable harm and injuries in the children we served, we needed to strive for zero preventable harm events.
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Leaks are annoying and preventable, but if they do happen, try using them as leverage.
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Even though cramps seem to come out of nowhere, they are preventable, Dr. Sutera says.
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This situation will have to change if outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases continue or increase.
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The gap in the success rate is widening between socioeconomic groups, particularly in preventable cancers.
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A dead battery is preventable, as is getting stuck in a snowbank in a Miata.
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Suicide is actually one of the leading causes of preventable death among these mental illnesses.
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With few exceptions, these diseases are preventable with ideal oral hygiene and a healthy diet.
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"Given that these are preventable deaths, this severe risk is notable," Paul added by email.
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Destruction of the country's infrastructure has caused the spread of easily preventable diseases like cholera.
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Women are losing their lives to a cancer that's not only treatable; it is preventable.
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In 1915, Booker T. Washington estimated that 19803 percent of Black deaths were completely preventable.
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Babies dying from preventable conditions, like congenital syphilis, is not an outcome we can accept.
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Or take health care, where costs keep rising and millions suffer preventable harm every day.
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As a result, pregnant women are dying or losing their babies for entirely preventable reasons.
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But after the switch, emergency department visits for preventable diabetes complications spiked for poor patients.
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More specifically, it imagines a world where death is preventable and justice is a calculation.
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This can increase the chance of preventable accidents — or, in Uber's case, a fatal crash.
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The virus is easily preventable through immunization, but there's no cure once it is contracted.
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And the law has contributed to a sharp drop in preventable patient deaths in hospitals.
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Reducing extreme poverty, stopping kids from dying from preventable causes, helping children complete primary school.
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That information includes: "That's a preventable tragedy," said Jeff Owens, Chief Technical Officer for Delphi.
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"As such, although not all inmate suicides are preventable, many of them are," he said.
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Based on all the research on alcohol taxes, that will lead to more preventable deaths.
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His strength was in realizing that most cancers are preventable, caused by exposures to carcinogens.
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Ballinger says two-thirds of those types of strokes are preventable with relatively inexpensive drugs.
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In a world of disasters, this one is so tragic because it was so preventable.
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"There is no net clinical benefit and (a) preventable risk of biopsychosocial harm," McCullough said.
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This research helps address the high costs associated with heart disease, which are largely preventable.
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Tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the United States.
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Rates of violence in society, on the other hand, are almost entirely predictable and preventable.
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Vaccinating children against measles and other preventable health threats is fortunately still the societal norm.
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Poussey's (Samira Wiley) death was tragic, preventable, and representative of broader issues about police brutality.
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The author, Institute of Cancer Research Professor Mel Greaves, suggests the cancer could be preventable.
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And suicide — inherently the most self-destructive impulse one can act upon — is, indeed, preventable.
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"We don't really discuss how people become infected with every vaccine-preventable disease," he said.
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Multiple reports concluded that a coal dust explosion that was entirely preventable caused the collapse.
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And then, in another Iraqi tragedy in a horrifying line of preventable ones, nothing worked.
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A concentrated effort could end preventable maternal and child deaths worldwide in the next decade.
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We've worked together to help stop the spread of polio, measles and other preventable diseases.
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Not every death in custody may be preventable, but a great many of them are.
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Far from stopping preventable murders, these laws bring up more red flags than they solve.
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HPV-related cancers are preventable with a vaccine, recommended as two shots for pre-teens.
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Every day, around 800 girls and women die from preventable pregnancy and childbirth-related causes.
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Let's do everything we can to relegate all vaccine-preventable diseases to the history books.
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When was the last time we annoyed you with our outrage about their preventable deaths?
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It's preventable, yes, but President Trump and small-minded Tea Party members won't stop it.
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Deaths are often the consequences of minute gaps in our systems, and therefore readily preventable.
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"These unintentional exposures and health care visits are preventable," she told Reuters Health by email.
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"This poisoning of an entire population was entirely preventable," Hanna-Attisha told the Huffington Post.
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Lastly, we must address the many preventable traumatizing conditions under which too many people live.
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We've worked together to help stop the spread of polio, measles and other preventable diseases.
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Today, obesity and smoking remain the two leading causes of preventable deaths in this country.
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This system shock alone will lead to unnecessary and preventable deaths unless we act now.
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Other strategies offered by the report include the elimination of preventable causes of cancer globally.
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Some discuss keeping babies' "natural" bodies intact and raise questions about preventable pain and trauma.
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And drowning is the leading cause of preventable deaths in children from 1 to 4.
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The big picture: Cases of the vaccine-preventable infection continue to spike around the world.
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Furthermore, a review of Herzberg's death suggests that a lot of preventable mistakes were made.
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In Kenya a child dies every 17 minutes of a preventable disease caused by diarrhoea.
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In Yemen, a child dies from preventable causes like hunger and malnutrition every 10 minutes.
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The commission said on Sunday that it believes the virus is "still preventable and controllable."
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Her diagnosis: haemophilus influenzae type B meningitis, a vaccine-preventable illness caused by a bacterium.
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Yet those breakthroughs are being offset by preventable deaths relating to addiction and mental illness.
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Rabies is 100 percent preventable if a series of shots is received before symptoms start.
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What are the behaviors that are leading to the transmission of a vaccine-preventable disease?
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But suicide is absolutely preventable, and we're learning more about the best ways to intervene.
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Noise-induced hearing loss is increasingly recognized as a ubiquitous — and entirely preventable — health threat.
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Hillary Clinton, for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.
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An estimated 435,000 people die of malaria each year, but it is both preventable and treatable.
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Even people in high-income countries, with good healthcare systems, are dying from easily preventable diseases.
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"The end result would be countless preventable deaths, injuries and illnesses across the U.S.," Carome added.
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Prosecutor David Leyton said in a statement that it&aposs a "terrible, tragic and preventable incident."
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Cigarette smoking kills about 33,23 Americans every year, making it the leading cause of preventable death.
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A lot of these things are potentially preventable if you actually know what you can change.
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Rural areas also have higher rates of preventable deaths, due to limited access to health care.
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It seems inevitable that lax regulation of self-driving cars will lead to some preventable deaths.
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Politicians who fail to address these needs share responsibility for preventable crimes committed against innocent Americans.
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Why it matters: Many of those deaths were preventable, according to U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
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In this case, the approved perspective has resulted in the deaths of millions through preventable diseases.
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All were possible symptoms of lead poisoning, a preventable affliction that can damage children for life.
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Type 225 diabetes is not currently preventable and sufferers require daily administration of insulin to survive.
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More than 800 women globally die each day from preventable causes related to childbirth and pregnancy.
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Her generation is ready to act on climate change, which is a "preventable crisis", she said.
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We believe that this incident was easily preventable and, unfortunately, resulted in significant injuries to Taylor.
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It is both preventable and treatable, yet an estimated 240,000 people die of it each year.
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And yet now we seem to be entering an entirely voluntary and preventable two-front war.
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Cervical cancer is preventable and treatable but our goal is to get women to their doctors.
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The World Health Organization suggests that over half of the world's cases of deafness are preventable.
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"Heart failure is largely preventable, and the disparities identified can be reduced or eliminated," Fonarow said.
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A Senate committee held its second hearing on the matter Tuesday, focusing on preventable disease outbreaks.
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This has helped us prevent some cancer and realize that about 40% of cancers are preventable.
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And today, it's unimaginable to think that archaic vaccine-preventable diseases once ravaged Yemen and Bangladesh.
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Of the deaths that researchers analyzed, approximately sixty percent of them were determined to be preventable.
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death globally, killing about 60 million people every year.
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Most harrowing: it's completely preventable, treatable and curable — though most Americans are completely unaware of it.
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And some of these conditions, like diabetes and heart disease, are preventable through diet and exercise.
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Too often, these types of "fail first" restrictions result in an otherwise-preventable opioid overdose death.
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A sad, predictable, and preventable formula plays out over and over again in Europe and beyond.
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A primary reason for this is preventable medical conditions, like those linked to obesity and smoking.
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Half of these preventable deaths will be caused by prescription opioids such as morphine or oxycodone.
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"Why can't human error be an accident even if the error is preventable," one person wrote.
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But they are an easily preventable significant factor that also delays action on the other factors.
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Reports such as "A Preventable Tragedy," and "Gloss-over of the Horror" highlight the medical failures.
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But both are the consequence of illness, and are often are preventable with the right treatment.
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The UN says a child under five dies from preventable causes every 10 minutes in Yemen.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 60 percent of maternal deaths are preventable.
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Before the conflict, about 40,000 children under 5 died from preventable diseases each year, Unicef said.
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Through the writing, my legacy became extremely clear to me: raising awareness of a preventable disease.
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Venezuela is struggling with hunger, preventable diseases and hyperinflation forecast at 10 million percent in 2019.
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For starters, the international community needs to redouble efforts to fight this preventable and curable disease.
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"I've seen children develop diseases that are vaccine-preventable, and it's just really horrible," she said.
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Generally speaking, rural Americans report higher incidences of preventable conditions like obesity, diabetes, cancer, and injury.
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The C.D.C. estimates that 60 percent of current maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.
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The result is no real action taken and more people killed in preventable acts of violence.
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The Checkup On the frustration of pediatricians taking care of children suffering from a preventable disease.
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Additionally, Mr. Lowcock said, tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, malaria and other preventable diseases have resurfaced in Venezuela.
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And it's about the human capacity to acknowledge evil — undeniable, preventable and present — or ignore it.
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Measles, which is almost entirely preventable with two doses of vaccine, is making a comeback globally.
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We look at why that happened, whether the infections were preventable, and how the hospital reacted.
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But several Kashmiri doctors said dozens of preventable deaths might have happened because of the blockade.
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Preventable diseases are deadlier in rural America than in urban areas, a new CDC report says.
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With testing and the right treatment, Dr. Brown said, hepatitis B reactivation should be completely preventable.
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But many of these business-killers are not only foreseeable, but preventable as well, experts say.
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No person or potential political candidate should feel threatened by such a preventable act as hacking.
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The Agency for International Development oversees giving to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and vaccine-preventable diseases.
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"It is appalling to me that people die every year from a preventable disease," Ford said.
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Standing on the precipice of an extremely preventable public health crisis, state governments are taking action.
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Kobe's death, along with the deaths of his daughter, pilot, and co-passengers, was eminently preventable.
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"What is frustrating is that many of the conditions we're seeing here are preventable," said Sampson.
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But parallel to that pain is a resolute conviction that their child's death was absolutely preventable.
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One of the most frustrating is also the most preventable: the youth smoking and vaping epidemics.
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Businesses have been and will continue to be damaged by these preventable events across the country.
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And also, speak with healthcare providers about the risk of vaccine-preventable disease, like pneumococcal pneumonia.
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And as the number of unvaccinated children grows, some vaccine-preventable diseases are making a comeback.
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If we want to stop vaccine-preventable outbreaks, we probably need something mightier than even Facebook.
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The result is the opioid epidemic will continue, and more people will die of preventable causes.
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We know states with more lax vaccine laws tend to suffer more with preventable outbreaks, which some public health officials worry are on the rise across the US. Do you have any messages for other communities that may soon be dealing with preventable outbreaks of their own?
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Despite paying buckets of money, Americans somehow also spend the most time in the hospital for preventable diseases, visit their physicians less (which is a problem of both doctor supply, and affordability of care), and have the highest rates of preventable deaths compared to their peer nations.
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Lead poisoning is preventable, and its prevalence in the United States has declined sharply in recent decades.
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Health insurers and government payors have been increasing scrutiny of short-stay admissions and preventable hospital readmissions.
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Some have loosened their standards over the years — and it's helped spark a resurgence of preventable diseases.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that rabies can be fatal, but it is preventable.
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The report notes that oftentimes these injuries and deaths are preventable given effective health and safety measures.
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Essentially, the UK is racing the EU towards a ban in order to avoid some preventable embarrassment.
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So the most powerful contributor to the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases was science, Pinker reminds us.
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But it may mean doctors catch a serious or preventable problem early on and forestall further decline.
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An investigation later found the breach was "entirely preventable" had the credit agency employed basic security measures.
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"Shingles is a preventable disease that can have adverse effects on your quality of life," Yawn said.
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This completely preventable disease was eradicated in 2000 but has made a comeback in the past decade.
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The ruling has further opened the floodgates for preventable workplace abuses, hurting a large swath of America.
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"In general, it's a fixable problem, but we'd rather it was a preventable problem," Dr. Hedrick said.
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Last year alone, nearly 6 million children under the age of 5 died from mostly preventable diseases.
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Health departments in other states have routinely enforced similar bans during recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease.
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Little consideration should be given to cost—what matters now is avoiding preventable deaths and extreme hardship.
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What happened in Albany this weekend isn't that surprising and it may not have even been preventable.
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Health insurers and government payors have been increasing scrutiny of short stay admissions and preventable hospital readmissions.
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Overall, there was no difference between LGB and straight people when it came to low-preventable diseases.
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Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in France, far ahead of alcohol or road accidents.
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Meanwhile, vaccine trust was highest in countries where preventable diseases still spread, such as Bangladesh and Rwanda.
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That's a lot less people spending their time and taxpayer money on patching up easily preventable wounds.
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Many people may die from unnecessary and preventable deaths because they won't have an affordable healthcare plan.
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It is both preventable and treatable, yet an estimated 22016,000 people died of it worldwide in 2017.
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Over the past decade, Yemen's vicious cycle has become a downward spiral -- a predictable and preventable spiral.
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Data also support Title X's role in reducing low birth weights, sexually transmitted infections and preventable cancers.
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That amounts to nearly 6900 million preventable deaths of children under the age of five every year.
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Mass shootings in the United States are tragic, devastating, and disturbing, but they also often times preventable.
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This legislation would strengthen U.S. government efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, newborns, and young children.
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While extreme weather events might be erratic, their impact to property and safety are predictable and preventable.
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News agencies report that patients are dying preventable deaths from a lack of timely care or treatment.
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Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable deaths worldwide, killing nearly 6 million people each year.
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The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened.
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Parents, legislators and doctors must continue improving vaccination rates to reduce the incidence of these preventable cancers.
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The report faulted the inspector general for prolonging the VA's problems and allowing preventable deaths to continue.
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"The suffering and death that will occur is unnecessary and preventable," Flores said in a statement Tuesday.
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This is preventable, and it's necessary to participate in these rebellions despite the threat of 'disciplinary measures.
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It's not that rural America hasn't seen any improvement in the number of preventable and premature deaths.
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I kept being struck anew by the sorrow of that one lost creature, that one preventable tragedy.
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Although the trend is disturbing, falls needn't be an inevitable part of aging, and they are preventable.
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The examination showed that the transit authority's own flawed policies and practices have led to preventable breakdowns.
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Such costs lead individuals to put off needed care, resulting in alarmingly high rates of preventable deaths.
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After offering his condolences on Twitter, Mr. Trump suggested shootings were not always preventable in an Oct.
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It's potentially preventable, because diagnoses are associated with "excessive sun exposure and indoor tanning," the authors said.
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This leaves children without adequate protection from preventable diseases and puts their community at risk for outbreaks.
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The stricter a state's vaccination laws, the fewer nonmedical exemptions and fewer outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Several reported deaths were from leptospirosis, a treatable and entirely preventable illness contracted by drinking contaminated water.
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Child sexual abuse is preventable — and it's time to invest the resources needed to protect our children.
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Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness characterizes by a rash of flat, red spots.
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These numbers add to the 372 cases reported in 2018 of this serious, vaccine-preventable viral illness.
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Can you think of other sports or activities that cause eye injuries preventable by wearing eye goggles?
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They begin with the policies that govern their lives and our planet, and they are often preventable.
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In 2017, the Cleveland Clinic presented data showing obesity is the number one cause of preventable death.
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Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness characterized by a rash of flat, red spots.
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In 213, more than 235,133 women died from cervical cancer, even though the disease is largely preventable.
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"It was preventable, it should never have happened and it was a tragedy," family attorney Stewart said.
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And what's more important is that failure is quantifiable and preventable, not a qualitative and mockable measure.
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These preventable accidents were the latest in an unsettling trend of crashes and derailments of passenger trains.
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It is not a coincidence that a vast majority of preventable accidents occur at nonunion work sites.
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Where are their "pro-family" values for the children left behind from mothers who died preventable deaths?
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Fitzgerald had long championed efforts to cut tobacco use, which is the leading cause of preventable death.
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"It's a preventable fire that gets a head-start, gets advanced and takes a life," he said.
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On Twitter, she noted that Hay's tweets were, on one level, an easily preventable social media gaffe.
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The crashes were caused by preventable errors by the sailors on board the ships, Navy investigations showed.
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But for a preventable disease with no cure and crippling symptoms, even a handful of cases is serious.
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There are estimates that 290% of diabetes, heart disease and stroke and 23.5% of cancer cases are preventable.
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She is the co-chair of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, which helps decrease preventable deaths related to childbirth.
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Later in life, preventable risk factors include the usual, like smoking, depression, physical activity, social isolation, and diabetes.
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"The huge benefit of vaccines is clear, with large decreases in mortality from vaccine preventable diseases," she said.
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Health officials blame the rise of vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles, on an increase in anti-vaccine rhetoric.
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Refinery29 is continuously tracking the frequent and largely preventable attacks on women by their current and former partners.
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Many in the nation of 30 million are skipping meals, and increasingly suffering from malnutrition or preventable disease.
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Not a big fan of the measles or mumps or rubella -- to name a few very preventable diseases.
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But recent outbreaks of preventable diseases are testing those laws, and a number of states are considering changes.
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We've seen just one disastrous news story after another these past few years, almost all knowable and preventable.
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The good news is that most cases of melanoma — up to 90% of them, research suggests — are preventable.
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Yet critics still say health-focused drugstores shouldn't sell products that are the leading cause of preventable death.
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Now, Facebook stares down the fourth week of a scandal that ultimately seems to have been mostly preventable.
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People who are injured because of impaired drivers is one of a few things that's 100 percent preventable.
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Malnutrition and preventable disease continue to kill millions, straining health-care systems in both rich and poor countries.
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"Outbreaks are not always preventable, but facilities can do much to minimize their frequency and impact," he tweeted.
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One of the preventable diseases that still kills a large number of people is malaria, spread by mosquitoes.
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"It is critical to recognize the importance of protecting public health against vaccine-preventable diseases," the letter reads.
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Hunger and preventable diseases are as a result taking a growing toll on the population of 30 million.
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It found that less than half of ED personnel believed that suicide is preventable in the first place.
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The big picture: Measles is a preventable, sometimes deadly illness against which a safe and effective vaccine exists.
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"We're seeing so many more preventable causes of death, and they're significantly affecting mortality negatively," he told STAT.
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And there's also good evidence that when confidence in vaccines flags, vaccine-preventable diseases can make a comeback.
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Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are all curable with antibiotics, and they're also all preventable with safer sex practices.
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"(A) preventable medical emergency is unfolding," MSF's international president Joanne Liu said in an open letter on Thursday.
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Nothing But Nets raises awareness, funds, and voices to protect the most vulnerable families from this preventable disease.
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It will mean that millions of people — including millions of children — will die preventable deaths on our watch.
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"Deaths from silicosis should be completely preventable" once the new protocol on silica usages is adopted, he said.
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Teen deaths More than 3,000 adolescents die every day around the world from causes that are largely preventable.
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One child under the age of five dies of preventable hunger and disease every 10 minutes, he said.
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I believe it is the right goal, because even one preventable traffic-related death is one too many.
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They compared illnesses in LGB people and their straight counterparts in relation to how preventable the diseases were.
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Similarly, lesbian and bisexual women were 64 percent more likely than straight women to have highly preventable illnesses.
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Across industries and governments, Bunn's research demonstrates that employee disgruntlement is a common preventable cause of insider threats.
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And even if the number is lower, these are preventable deaths that at least need to be discussed.
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing about 480,000 people a year.
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Friday's referendum owes its existence in part to one prominent, preventable death: the 2012 case of Savita Halappanavar.
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Political leaders do not want to admit this, as it requires conceding that violence is never fully preventable.
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From what little the public knows now, Stephens' violence was not easily apparent and thus not clearly preventable.
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According to analysis from nine maternal mortality review committees, over 60 percent of pregnancy-related deaths were preventable.
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"Hence, although potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia exist, this does not mean that dementia is easily preventable."
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In 22017, Nigeria borrowed the money from Japan to fund its fight against the preventable disease, Quartz reports.
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Two state lawmakers from Clark County have each introduced legislation designed to protect more children from preventable disease.
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What really goes through my mind is one seems completely preventable, and I question 'When is enough, enough?
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Over all, though, about 25 percent of cancer in women and 33 percent in men was potentially preventable.
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The freshman lawmaker clarified that she believed the Trump administration's immigration policies are causing preventable deaths of migrants.
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High blood pressure accounts for more heart disease and stroke deaths than all other preventable causes, except smoking.
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But in this study, researchers defined medical error as any health care intervention that causes a preventable death.
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The FCC found the failure to renew the domain name to be preventable, and fined Sorenson $3 million.
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In order to address our firearm suicide crisis, state and federal legislators must recognize that suicide is preventable.
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But 40,000 Americans die every year in automotive accidents, and about 303 to 60 percent are completely preventable.
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A staggering number of these deaths are preventable through better public health strategies, training and access to care.
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The grim finding comes from the National Safety Council which analyzed preventable injury and fatality statistics from 2017.
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Medicare spends an extra $40 billion each year due to very preventable billing mistakes made by healthcare providers.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
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Delaying and refusing vaccines, however, can increase a child's risk of disease as well as vaccine-preventable outbreaks.
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So cutting alcohol taxes, as the tax bill does, will likely increase preventable deaths in the US significantly.
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Yes, 90 percent of all heart attacks are preventable — but more than 735,000 Americans annually still suffer one.
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Undertaking these voluntary actions to stop foreseeable and preventable bird killings has not held back our energy industry.
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The truth is that roughly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico, and many of those deaths were preventable.
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His cousin has been charged with murder, and their family is left to mourn a senseless, preventable tragedy.
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They have committed crimes against medicine, science and humanity, and exposed millions to the dangers of preventable infections.
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This plan is designed to improve awareness, diagnosis, treatment, and research efforts pertaining to this largely preventable disease.
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If nearly 22019 Americans died from a preventable disaster each day, public outcry would force immediate government action.
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In the fallout of the Equifax hack, a report came out showcasing just how preventable the breach was.
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But about one-third of dementia is preventable, and once you have the disease, it can be slowed.
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Vaccination is vital in protecting pets from preventable and potentially fatal diseases that can be devastating for families.
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One woman dies in America of cervical cancer every two hours, and almost all these deaths are preventable.
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The world is facing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases that had been well on their way to eradication.
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His plan, known as Vision Zero, was modeled after a Swedish approach that views all deaths as preventable.
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This is a tragedy that is as preventable and predictable as the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Mich.
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"We should all be worried when a vaccine-preventable illness is coming back into our country," Sammons said.
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Cycling accidents are one of the leading preventable causes of traumatic brain injuries and other sports-related injuries.
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The fact is that workplace fatalities and serious injuries are preventable when employers follow common-sense safety rules.
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Another dog was found in October to be suffering from leishmaniasis, a preventable disease transmitted by sand flies.
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But the deadline was extended, and preventable crashes such as Monday's deadly accident in Washington State keep happening.
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All too often, preventable diseases develop into major ailments simply because people don't want to visit the hospitals.
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Poor communication between medical staff and patients is a major cause of preventable medical error, according to Medical Cyberworlds.
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The authors do point out that 65 percent of cases are not preventable since some causes are simply genetic.
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The most common outbreaks involve not only gastrointestinal infections but also vaccine-preventable diseases such as chickenpox and influenza.
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"These people end up dying from things that are preventable under ordinary circumstances," said the former federal emergency official.
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A Preventable Disaster We now possess the space technologies needed to identify and stop the threat from dangerous asteroids.
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This is the sharpest two-year rise since 1964, says the council, a nonprofit focused on eliminating preventable deaths.
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Having studied other school shootings, mass shootings, and suicides, I know that the majority of them were also preventable.
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"So it's one of the first vaccine-preventable diseases to show its face when there's under-vaccination," Larson said.
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All of these outcomes are theoretically preventable, but then, the scale of the interactions in these systems is uncountable.
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"We don't want to see any young, healthy person have heatstroke because it's almost entirely preventable," Dr. Tedeschi says.
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We're talking life-or-death prescriptions like malaria and heart medication, which have caused the spread of preventable diseases.
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But that does not allow Boeing to have any free crashes that are preventable by standard aeronautical safety stability.
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Despite being potentially preventable in one-third of cases, it's estimated that someone develops dementia globally every three seconds.
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Potential telomeric damage and genetic variation aren't fun, but they aren't showstoppers either and may very well be preventable.
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The plan is modeled after a Swedish approach that treats all road deaths and serious injuries as inherently preventable.
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More worrisome, leptospirosis, a vaccine-preventable bacterial infection carried by rats, spreads readily to dogs and then to humans.
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More than 128,000 people are hospitalized and about 3,000 die from infections the federal government says are largely preventable.
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And over time, that's an example of how we could reduce some of the preventable gun deaths out there.
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"Hundreds and thousands of girls and women are dying, but 98 percent of the deaths are preventable," she continues.
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Measles is the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be eliminated from the Americas, according to the World Health Organization.
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"Given that the majority of these deaths are preventable, clearly, we are failing the world's poorest babies," she said.
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The shortfalls leave some children vulnerable to prolonged lead exposure, among the most insidious, and preventable, early health risks.
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Most distressing is that pneumonia infections are largely preventable and treatable in most cases with appropriate vaccines and treatments.
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Maher said she was motivated because so many of the nearly 40,000 U.S. gun deaths each year were preventable.
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A club of bullies that feels threatened by people wearing orange to honor the victims of preventable gun violence?
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Heart disease may be the number one cause death in America, but it also one of the most preventable.
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"It's a disease that is preventable, treatable and ultimately beatable, but progress against malaria is not inevitable," Gates said.
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Exposed databases and user data can be easily found, yet are entirely preventable — often simply by setting a password.
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However, gay and bisexual men were 48 percent more likely than straight men to have a high-preventable illness.
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Many who eschew vaccines say that measles, mumps and other vaccine-preventable diseases were once expected parts of childhood.
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The Partnership identified hospital errors responsible for preventable injuries and deaths, such as pressure ulcers and surgical site infections.
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Now with access to affordable primary care, HIP members are better able to stay healthy and avoid preventable hospitalizations.
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing about 480,000 Americans a year.
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This preventable disease kills around 67,000 women in India every year, more than 25% of the 260,000 deaths worldwide.
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" He called the case a preventable tragedy caused by "a senseless type of product that needs to be fought.
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Payment data breaches, in contrast to the sophisticated cyber espionage attacks we read about, are surprisingly simple and preventable.
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The US attorney general pushed back after the acquittal, calling Steinle's death "preventable" and blaming the sanctuary city policy.
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On National Suicide Prevention Week and throughout the year, we must commit to addressing this preventable public health crisis.
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While 60% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, there's no significant differences in preventability based on race or ethnicity.
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As a nation, we are about to ignite a public health disaster — one that's self-inflicted and entirely preventable.
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The most common health conditions in the U.S. are also the most preventable, yet they are costing us dearly.
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As seen by the tobacco-control community, reduced risk is not a benefit, since it still represents preventable risk.
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We see a clear opportunity for Congress to take action in the fight against preventable maternal and child deaths.
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In 2015 alone, almost six million children died before reaching age 5, mostly due to preventable and treatable diseases.
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Measles, pertussis and chickenpox: Close, crowded conditions can ignite outbreaks of these and other highly transmissible, vaccine-preventable diseases.
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The risks of outbreaks from vaccine-preventable diseases are highest in communities with greater access to resources and education.
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Talking with medical professionals when any change in perception or cognition is detected is essential to address preventable decline.
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Today, automobile crashes are a leading cause of preventable death worldwide, claiming more than one million lives each year.
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Even if 1,300 children a day are dying from said threat and it's—through prevention and education—entirely preventable.
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Vaccination rates have since plummeted in the community, making its members more susceptible to preventable diseases — such as measles.
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"Her death was entirely preventable," Lynly Egyes, the Transgender Law Center's director of litigation, said at a news conference.
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Ferguson, to them, was an embarrassment: preventable chaos that tarnished the name of the otherwise orderly St. Louis suburbs.
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The as-yet unstoppable epidemic of obesity is most likely the leading cause of preventable cardiovascular disease and deaths.
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A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that most maternal deaths are indeed preventable.
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When you look at the big causes of preventable childhood death, it's hard not to notice a political pattern.
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Measles, diphtheria, and polio—these were prevalent diseases at the time, but now they are preventable, thanks to vaccines.
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Separately, in a written statement on Tuesday, Khan pointed out how the majority of the cardiometabolic deaths are preventable.
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Cigarettes remain the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing more than 480,000 people a year.
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The takeaway: While almost anything digital is at some risk of being hacked, the Equifax attack was largely preventable.
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"Whooping cough and measles, especially, are two of the most preventable infectious diseases in the Western world," she said.
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Still, nearly two-thirds of deaths from unintentional injury in the most rural counties were potentially preventable in 2017.
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There have been almost 100 preventable deaths in California's psychiatric facilities over the last decade, the L.A. Times reports.
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As a result, there are thousands of preventable deaths and billions of dollars in avoidable health spending every year.
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India's internet and phone blockade in Kashmir means there's no way to call the doctor, leading to preventable deaths.
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Smoking remains the leading worldwide cause of preventable death, including 248,000 deaths per year in the United States alone.
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"People are finally realizing those stomach aches are preventable," said Michael Evans, who has been bartending for six years.
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Although the disease is preventable and, if detected early, treatable, Dr. Kemeny's patients have often never had Pap smears.
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But it was about 25 percent higher for highly preventable causes of death — like homicides, lung cancer and accidents.
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If Brewbaker is truly committed to reducing violence, he should begin by acknowledging that racially inspired violence is preventable.
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Many deaths from heart disease are preventable through control of hypertension and diabetes, better nutrition and increased physical activity.
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Rockland County has seen an extensive and ongoing outbreak of a serious preventable disease, brought by anti-vaccine misinformation.
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The tragedy was likely preventable: The exit doors in the factory were locked, so the women inside couldn't escape.
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Some 250 others have endured broken limbs and spilled blood, a death and injury toll that was largely preventable.
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Yet, he also dismisses the possibility that technology contributes to the cycle of anxiety in important and preventable ways.
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An investigation by The Times found that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's flawed policies and practices led to preventable breakdowns.
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"San Francisco's decision to protect criminal aliens led to the preventable and heartbreaking death of Kate Steinle," he said.
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While 60% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, there's no significant differences in preventability based on race or ethnicity.
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"To combat preventable disease outbreaks, information is, in my mind, the forefront of this matter," he told Congress Tuesday.
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And we'll explore why, if this infection is preventable, Nora suffered from four in her last year of life.
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For starters, he's promised to tackle what is still the greatest cause of preventable death in the US: tobacco.
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It's just kind of amazing that even though the European health system is regarded as this model of equity and you know, it's a part of the developed world and you have this going on and for but for preventable diseases, you know, what is a preventable disease measles is, it's incredible.
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For example, poor women have twice as many deaths from cervical cancer than affluent women — and this is mostly preventable.
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It's rare and preventable, but possible, for someone with genital herpes to transmit it to their child when giving birth.
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But the CDC says the funding is used to help states combat preventable diseases and calamities like childhood lead poisoning.
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But sanitizing methods could increase the potential for risk group two bacteria, those that can cause treatable or preventable disease.
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Still, that less reputable app developers would use these tactics in the first place is both predictable and entirely preventable.
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"When I learned that multiple children had died in detention from potentially preventable causes, it truly disturbed me," Winickoff said.
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Only 253% of adults can read, according to the UN. Preventable diseases such as cholera, measles and malaria are rampant.
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Lessman also noted that she believed the birth was handled "negligently," and because of that, Vera died a preventable death.
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People are essentially dying from preventable deaths due to stress, hopelessness, and desperation, reflected in the suicide and overdose numbers.
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Carter did so because he was so shocked that millions of people were suffering from something that was totally preventable.
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The reason that it is the mission is that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the world.
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Most of them offer more specific information about the countless failures of security that allowed a preventable tragedy to occur.
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Gray died in an accident -- a tragic, even preventable accident -- but he did not die because of a criminal act.
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Today 36 million Americans continue to smoke, and tobacco remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in our country.
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Murray said malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, claims a young life every two minutes but the disease was preventable.
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According to the World Health Organization, approximately 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day.
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If you learn about these cases, what you find out is that lots of mistakes that are made are preventable.
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A weighted average of four studies indicates an estimated 210,000 deaths per year are associated with preventable harm in hospitals.
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The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world, and most of the deaths are completely preventable.
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With most Yemenis dying from preventable diseases, WHO and UNICEF are working with local health authorities to do just that.
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" Winkleman said that after speaking with the grandfather, who was "hysterically crying," he believes the fall was a "preventable incident.
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Suicide is preventable, and most people who experience suicidal thoughts are not thinking rationally and therefore cannot make logical decisions.
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If you're afraid of losing your job, imagine if you had to fear losing your child to a preventable disease.
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But in poor nations, access to a safe, reliable blood supply is relatively rare, leading to preventable deaths each year.
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With early and lifelong treatment with CDCA, the effects of CTX, which include mental deficiencies and eventually death, are preventable.
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A lack of basic medicine and equipment was "causing preventable deaths", she said - something Correa is witnessing at first hand.
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Since 85033, America has led the world and helped cut the preventable deaths of children and their mothers in half.
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"It was preventable, but it happened, because this man, Barry Cadden, decided to put profits ahead of patients," she said.
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"Rheumatoid arthritis is a preventable disease with smoking cessation and the wearing of appropriate masks in the workplace," Murphy added.
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If you're afraid of losing your job, imagine if you had to fear losing your child to a preventable disease.
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Jay RockefellerJohn (Jay) Davison RockefellerBottom Line World Health Day: It's time to fight preventable disease Lobbying World MORE (D-W.
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It also requires viewing conditions like obesity and substance-use disorders not as moral failings, but preventable and treatable diseases.
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It can result in lead poisoning, an incredibly dangerous and entirely preventable disease linked to permanent health and developmental problems.
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While our nation spends $3.3 trillion on health care each year, how can we accept a single preventable maternal death?
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"I am hopeful that each time one of these tragedies strike, we remind ourselves that this is preventable," Obama said.
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Walker, like Stokes, wishes people would stop tossing around phrases like "suicide is 100% preventable" as if that's a fact.
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That $200 billion is directly attributed to very preventable billing errors and a lack of compliance with Medicare billing rules.
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"Her death was entirely preventable," said Lynly Egyes, director of litigation for the Transgender Law Center, in a statement Monday.
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"The good news is that we know what works to protect people from this completely preventable health risk," King said.
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Providers should have financial incentives for reducing disparities in treatment and outcomes and for reducing medical errors and preventable events.
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If trends continue, 2900 million more people could die from the preventable causes of drugs, alcohol and suicide by 220006.
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Police said they were looking into the safety of the raft and seeking to determine whether the incident was preventable.
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Smoking-related illness is the largest cause of preventable death among African Americans—more than homicides or even car accidents.
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And elimination of the burden of these chronic preventable diseases has to involve targeting lifestyle through the promotion of exercise.
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Despite its virulence, malaria is a treatable, preventable disease – if you have timely access to lifesaving drugs and bed-nets.
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That's why as we mark World Health Day, April 7, we must recommit to fighting preventable disease around the globe.
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With everything that is happening in the United States, it's easy to forget that preventable diseases remain a major problem.
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The last thing we need at the FDA is a preventable brain drain that delays the review of new medicines.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks physical inactivity as the fourth-biggest preventable killer globally, causing 3.2 million deaths annually.
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All told, Medicare spends $26 billion annually on readmissions, $17 billion of which is for readmissions that are considered preventable.
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Doherty warns of "thousands of preventable deaths" if the bill passes (which checks out), as 28 million people lose coverage.
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"School shootings are a grave and preventable problem, but rescinding the school discipline guidance is not the answer," she said.
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This brutal military campaign has destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, causing the spread of easily preventable diseases like cholera.
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I say preventable, because the Note 7 fiasco wasn't just an unfortunate manufacturing screwup, it was also a design flaw.
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Requests for better care are routinely ignored, delayed or denied, leading to appalling and otherwise preventable harm and even death.
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"I'm looking at this as totally preventable," said Mark Wolfe, the executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association.
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The result is the immense health, economic, and social impacts that are beginning to unfold today, all of them preventable.
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Watershed moments occasionally come along in medical history when previously intractable or even deadly conditions suddenly become treatable or preventable.
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The Checkup Young people who went to war 217 years ago often died from what are now preventable childhood diseases.
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"However, vaccine-preventable diseases are not benign and can lead to serious illness, something that is not seen with immunizations."
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Depending on your perspective, homicides with a gun may not be the thing you consider when thinking of preventable deaths.
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for about 20 percent of all deaths.
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Trump is critically important — but so are the five million children who will die this year, mostly for preventable reasons.
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Despite measles being mostly preventable, the combination of the anti-vaccination movement and vaccine hesitancy places several communities at risk.
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Well, one of the things was, as you have all of these people dying from preventable things, a theory emerges.
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It's really hard to work in construction when you have to admit to having a recent seizure — preventable or not.
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A company that has pioneered world-class logistics has the capability to move people and goods without such preventable tragedies.
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However, the progress we have made in the worldwide fight against preventable disease is as fragile as it is remarkable.
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And yet the heartbreaking paradox is that every single day, 85033,600 children of God still die from vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Larger funding gaps beyond fiscal 2020 are also hampering the global community's ability to end vaccine-preventable disease in children.
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But recent CDC data continue to implicate tobacco use as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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The disease is mostly preventable, said Dr. John Dart, a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital who led the research.
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But cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing more than 480,000 deaths per year.
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Some of these victims were riding on Amtrak trains, so we know firsthand the devastation of a preventable, fatal accident.
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Public health experts still contend vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, which is still the leading cause of preventable death.
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Measles outbreaks nationwide Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness characterized by a rash of flat red spots.
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He recently faulted unprepared agencies and an unresponsive Congress for a tragedy that he said was both predictable and preventable.
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This program also the main source of funding for states to respond to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles.
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Their deaths would be preventable with exactly the type of insight that the gun lobby is actively trying to suppress.
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The most frustrating thing about this status quo is that noise-induced hearing loss is both irreparable and entirely preventable.
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When that threshold drops, vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks are inevitable — and we know vaccine refusers have helped spark recent outbreaks.
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It has been estimated that each year between 98,000 and 440,000 people die as a result of preventable errors in hospital.
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The sweater promoted the One campaign, an organization that takes action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.
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Photo: APThe past few weeks have been a nightmare for data breaches, so good news: Here's another easily preventable security problem.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), three in five pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable.
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Measles is a highly contagious viral infection that causes respiratory symptoms and a rash, but it is preventable with a vaccine.
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The FCC has previously fined carriers that had 22015 outages that it deemed preventable and required steps to prevent further outages.
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"Flu deaths are particularly tragic in my opinion because they are almost always preventable with good public health measures," Winickoff said.
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States with larger populations of people who have opted out of vaccines are more vulnerable to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses.
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Each year, millions of people, particularly women and children, die from preventable causes in countries affected by conflict and natural disaster.
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There's a preventable crisis facing America, and yet neither of the major-party candidates has said much, if anything, about it.
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The World Health Organization reports more than 800 women globally die each day from preventable causes related to childbirth and pregnancy.
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For the most part, these complications are preventable with greater access and education for both expectant mothers and health care providers.
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"830 women a day die worldwide from preventable issues during pregnancy," she captioned a post of her holding her baby bump.
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Hawaii is America's healthiest state, with fewer preventable hospitalizations than anyplace else, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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And while you can't bail out on your post-winter errands, struggling to find the perfect June outfit is 100% preventable.
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It cited multiple examples of weather-related tragedies that might have been preventable had more attention been paid to meteorological warnings.
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"These are really preventable outbreaks, and there's no reason we should be seeing measles outbreaks in the U.S. today," Gardner said.
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"One hundred thousand people will die in the U.S. this year because of preventable mistakes," Schweitzer said in her TEDx talk.
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Of the more than 600 babies born with congenital syphilis, 40 either died or developed severe defects, a fate entirely preventable.
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Some 347 million people have diabetes worldwide, and these conditions are two of the leading causes of preventable blindness in adults.
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In 2015, an estimated 5.9 million children died before reaching age 5, mostly as a result of preventable and treatable diseases.
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Without incorporating robust planning from the start, communities could find themselves facing another preventable tragedy like Hollywood Hills or Puerto Rico.
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I don't know if this was preventable or not, but I just hope somebody can get away from situations like that.
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This refusal to have kids vaccinated puts them at risk when someone brings back an easily preventable disease such as measles.
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Her death was totally preventable, and I was thinking that I would never have the strength to do what she did.
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Every day, more than 800 women die from preventable causes during pregnancy and childbirth, according to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA).
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It is the leading preventable cause of cancer and kills over 7m people annually, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.
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That is why global leaders came together four years ago to pledge an end to preventable child deaths within a generation.
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Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and UV light exposure is its most preventable risk factor.
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Hypertension or high blood pressure is second only to smoking for causing preventable heart disease and stroke deaths, the authors said.
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And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has noted that at least 60 percent of these deaths are entirely preventable.
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Until then, Americans will continue to succumb to a preventable disease that will taunt them for the rest of their lives.
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We need to make fact-based decisions to protect ourselves, our families and our communities from contagious diseases that are preventable.
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Encephalitis is among the rarer side effects of measles, an otherwise preventable respiratory virus that's extremely contagious and can turn deadly.
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There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable.
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Further, the sickest patients are likely to have more medical interventions, and therefore more opportunities to have a preventable error occur.
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They found that the overall rate of harms, and the rate of preventable harms, did not significantly improve over that period.
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AI has the potential to close these gaps by enabling earlier and more accurate diagnoses and eliminating preventable and premature deaths.
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Smoking causes lifelong, expensive chronic illness and remains the nation's leading cause of preventable death, killing nearly 500,000 people a year.
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CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reports doctors encountering several "preventable deaths" daily as care takes too long to reach ailing patients.
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In the United States, more than 50,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases annually, and thousands more suffer serious health problems.
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It is both one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and one of the easiest preventable causes of maternal death.
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And then there are the critics who charge that the officers' reckless actions may have resulted in a potentially preventable death.
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" Melzer noted that treatment for hemochromatosis at an early stage is easy and the build-up of iron is "perfectly preventable.
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And cholera is not the only preventable disease that is emerging -- the country also faces high rates of diphtheria and malaria.
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The vaccine-preventable illness hit the ship hard, infecting 28 people despite efforts to quarantine the infected and disinfect the ship.
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Deaths caused by preventable injuries, in general, are only exceeded by things like heart disease, cancer and chronic lower respiratory disease.
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The country has been upended by severe hunger and threats of famine, forced displacement and preventable diseases including cholera and diphtheria.
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Would every Second Amendment zealot have to lose a child in a preventable gun death to understand the sense in this?
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To look closely at those 30 troubled days is to see how preventable maintenance problems cause commuter misery practically every hour.
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Nonetheless, mental health providers perpetuate the narrative that suicide is preventable, if patients and family members just follow the right steps.
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In contrast, opiate overdose is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing about 91 Americans every day.
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While social media is a part of parents' everyday lives, the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases are in the distant past.
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In other words, a lot of people may react too slowly, potentially leading to hundreds of thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.
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The National Academy of Medicine estimated that there are 400,000 preventable adverse drug events in hospitals each year, costing $3.5 billion.
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One-fifth of patients discharged from the hospital have a drug-related complication after returning home, many of which are preventable.
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We encourage the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive investigation to protect the public against this growing yet preventable disease.
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But because Congress refuses to cross a gun lobby that fill politicians' campaign coffers, we see more senseless and preventable deaths.
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The new commitments mark a 15% increase from the previous replenishment three years ago and reflect greater prioritization of preventable disease.
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The fund tries to help children suffering from wholly preventable problems, for which there has been no will to take action.
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"And by the way, ask Hillary who blew up the plane last night – another terrible, but preventable tragedy," the businessman said.
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All in all, "vaccines are safe, effective and the best protection we have against serious preventable diseases like measles," Wiesman said.
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Judging by Sonatype's data, it seems like we may see at least a few more similarly preventable breaches in the future.
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As governor of Indiana, Mr. Pence badly botched the response to an H.I.V. outbreak, which resulted in hundreds of preventable infections.
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Still, cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, resulting in about 222,2000 deaths every year.
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In March 2018, FDA officials announced their Nutrition Innovation Strategy, focused on reducing preventable disease and death caused by poor nutrition.
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Preventable health problems Previous studies could not attribute with confidence whether maternal death was caused by anemia or another medical condition.
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It's called nonadherence to prescribed medications, and it is — potentially, at least — 100 percent preventable by the very individuals it afflicts.
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These events are thought to be preventable by changes at the level of the physician, the hospital or the system itself.
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By being an instrumental figure in the launching of the Iraq War, he contributed to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.
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Also at issue: whether addressing that misinformation might be a way to stop outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases before they start.
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"Today's lawsuit demands remedial action because Equifax needs to be held accountable for this massive and preventable catastrophic event," Fine said.
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"There is no excuse for exposing families and children to preventable chemical disasters," said Earthjustice Attorney Emma Cheuse in a statement.
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At least 60 percent of preeclampsia deaths are preventable, and patient education is an important part of the solution, experts say.
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We've waded through miles of red tape to address dangerous engineering oversights in power windows and gearshifts that cause preventable deaths.
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"That's in the category of something that is completely preventable," Krieger said, adding that more research in this area is critical.
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Many cardiovascular disease deaths are preventable The study involved analyzing data on deaths and diseases among 162,534 adults across five continents.
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Pediatricians with long careers behind them have seen children suffer or die from diseases that are now preventable by a vaccine.
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It will take drastic, unprecedented government intervention in order to avoid mass unemployment, another Great Depression, and thousands of preventable deaths.
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Others sit in helpless torpor by the intensive care ward, where their babies struggle on life support against preventable bacterial diseases.
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People treat ugly product like it's this horrible tragedy that's preventable, but really, this is just the nature of fresh produce.
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The Orthodox Jewish community has already faced numerous outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in recent years, including whooping cough and mumps.
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DNA test kits like this one from Embark can find preventable diseases and other disorders hiding inside of your dog's genetic makeup.
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This work focuses on acute kidney injuries that contribute to 40,000 deaths a year in the UK, many of which are preventable.
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"The real tragedy of a yellow fever outbreak like this is that with the right infrastructure, it is totally preventable," he said.
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Flint's disaster is just one example of a preventable public health crisis that continues in hotspots coast to coast, Reuters has found.
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And, despite the push to get vaccinated, parts of Canada have seen recent and troubling outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles.
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Other estimates have found that alcohol is the third largest leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing around 88,000 people.
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The series includes the story of a young girl who died just short of her fourth birthday after experiencing numerous preventable infections.
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It's even more heartbreaking as we've learned that the that crew members on the set consider her death to have been preventable.
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"Vaccine preventable diseases belong in the history books, not in our emergency rooms," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters.
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A 2018 study of vaccination rates identified a dozen likely hotspots, two of which have now seen eruptions of this preventable illness.
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The country's UNICEF office said that nearly 10,000 children under age 5 died from preventable diseases there over the last year alone.
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The goal of routine medical care is to avoid preventable illnesses and to detect diseases early while they are easiest to treat.
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The federal government penalizes hospitals when patients fall, get preventable infections or return to the hospital within 30 days of their discharge.
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"What makes it more heartbreaking is not just that the violence is increasing but that these acts are so preventable," she says.
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Smoking is linked to, depending on the estimate, 22015,221 to 540,000 deaths each year — the leading preventable cause of death in America.
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"From stuff that, I don't know if it was preventable, but maybe if somebody had done something, something could have been averted."
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Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has stated anti-vaxxers are a global health threat that contributes to the resurgence of preventable diseases.
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And when people don't get their immunizations, terrible, vaccine-preventable diseases like measles or whooping cough are more likely to flare up.
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Several EMTs who work LAX tell us ... they frequently encounter passengers with heart problems, and a number of the fatalities are preventable.
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For the subset of cases that were medical mistakes, the reviewers found 30 percent of the incidents caused harm and were preventable.
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Cholera, usually easily preventable, has spread rapidly across Yemen because everyday services — such as the water system and rubbish disposal — have stopped.
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Since the crisis erupted, about 28503 percent of Venezuelans have lost up to 22019 pounds, and many have died from preventable diseases.
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Trump on Wednesday met with families of victims of crimes committed or allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants, highlighting their deaths as preventable.
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Each year, around the world, 5.9 million children age 5 and under die of highly preventable causes like malnutrition, malaria and diarrhea.
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As for the dangers, there are a few that are totally preventable, as long as you actually do it the right way.
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And now with naloxone available in a simple nasal spray, opioid overdoses should be as preventable as restaurant chokings or diabetic comas.
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Beyond increasing skin cancer risk, sunburns are also preventable risk factors for premature aging including wrinkles and dark skin spots, she added.
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Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Substance abuse alone, responsible for one in four preventable deaths, costs our country around a half trillion dollars a year or more.
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As a global community, we find ourselves at an important moment in the global fight against this curable and preventable infectious disease.
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While this is true, sugary drinks are the largest source of added sugar in the American diet, and a major preventable factor.
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Eliminating all preventable maternal deaths is a lofty goal to be sure, but that is precisely why our nation should pursue it.
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"Although devastating, these accidents are largely preventable," senior study author Dr. Theodore Ganley of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and colleagues write.
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What if every young person knew how to protect his/her/their body from preventable infections that can have life-long consequences?
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For too long, the football and tobacco industries have used the same deceptive playbook, with the same predictable and preventable tragic results.
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Some causes of hearing loss are progressive and preventable, some are completely reversible and other causes are harbingers of serious medical problems.
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Without a fix, there won't be much to save Americans from preventable deaths or to stop a family's freefall into medical bankruptcy.
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Ocean says the party is meant to recreate 1980s gay club culture but in the age of PrEP, when HIV is preventable.
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Conservative leaders in government wondered why it was necessary to spend taxpayer money on what many considered a preventable sexually transmitted disease.
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"San Francisco's decision to protect criminal aliens led to the preventable and heartbreaking death of Kate Steinle," Sessions said in a statement.
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While making an appearance at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, Obama said the public must remember that these deadly shootings are preventable.
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An Interior Department investigation determined the EPA rushed engineering work at the mine before the incident and that the spill was preventable.
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What is especially tragic is that – according to a new report from CDC – the majority of these pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
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Ailments like afib may be a kind of holy grail for these companies because they are equal parts common, serious, and preventable.
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Yet smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing about 480,000 Americans every year, according to the CDC.
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The National Safety Council crunched the numbers from preventable injury and fatality statistics in 2017 and came up with this grim stat.
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Why it matters: The groups say sugary drinks pose preventable risks to childrens' health, including tooth decay, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
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The result is a preventable downward spiral that can prevent students from graduating and increase their chances of defaulting on student loans.
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In addition to California, sizable outbreaks of the highly contagious, yet preventable, disease have been reported in Washington, New York, and Pennsylvania.
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This is a significant burden of illness and one that is largely preventable in the future if appropriate actions are taken now.
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I tested positive for hepatitis C. Tens of thousands of dollars later, I'm still undergoing treatment for this highly preventable, bloodborne illness.
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For Linda, her daughter's death was the preventable result of an uncaring bureaucracy that didn't prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable.
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As a young person trying to make it in media, or whatever, the totally preventable uproar that followed really teed me off.
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The US scored 210.2 in managing common vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, and measles, despite our vocal contingent of anti-vaxxers.
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The research highlights attitudinal factors that affect these numbers; if people were more wary of the risks, they might be more preventable.
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In return, insurance see significant savings down the road by reducing preventable hospitalizations, readmissions and other costs associated with poor disease management.
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He said the charity, which aims to "end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa," had failed to protect the workers.
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Yet, each year 48 million people in this country are sickened, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from preventable food-borne diseases.
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"It is a preventable disease," said Dr. Chaitanya Kumar at the district's Kejriwal Maternity Hospital, one of two treating young AES patients.
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In other words, mortality rates in rural areas for these preventable deaths, which were going down, are now plateauing and even increasing.
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As a survivor of childhood polio, I know firsthand the trauma of vaccine-preventable disease, which is why vaccine hesitancy terrifies me.
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Take the threat of vaccine resistance: Vaccinating against preventable diseases like measles only works if 90% of a population get their shots.
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In fact, the Centers for Disease Control reported last year that 60 percent of maternal deaths reviewed in nine states were preventable.
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As a CNN investigation last year revealed, these facilities often deny or delay even basic medical care, causing preventable complications and deaths.
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That's what we saw when rates of measles vaccination dropped in New York in 2019: hundreds of people caught the preventable illness.
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Jump into the abattoir of clown meat whose top policy priority seems to be "poor people deserve to die of preventable diseases"?
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"Pertussis is complicated; it's been the most poorly controlled vaccine-preventable disease for many years, and that's still true today," she said.
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Even more important, America needs major policy changes to reduce the $85033 billion additional annual strain on the system from preventable diseases.
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But she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable death.
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She also leads the Road to Zero Coalition, established in 2016, with the goal of eliminating all preventable roadway deaths by 2050.
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This is the way we need the world to go to begin to really combat preventable diseases like obesity, hypertension and diabetes.
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It's suddenly not so unthinkable that the next generation will live shorter lives than we will -- and largely due to preventable deaths.
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For patients with life-threatening or complex conditions, those days without a skilled caregiver could lead to rapid, yet completely preventable, declines.
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We should be at least equally concerned about Americans killed by preventable disease and bioterrorism as by terrorists and other external enemies.
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Mumps arrives on campus This week, 21 cases of mumps -- yet another vaccine-preventable illness -- were diagnosed at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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Those include parts of Luzon and Visayas, with some areas seeing staggering increases in the number of cases of the preventable disease.
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"It was so preventable, and that's why we're so angry," said Alia Al-Ghabban, a veterinary receptionist who lives on the estate.
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Amazon said in response that it would implement more security features for Ring cameras, but also argued that the incident was preventable.
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Senate Republican's tax bill would cause real harm to Americans' health, resulting in more unpaid bills, skipped health care, and preventable deaths.
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How long will I need to keep them away from my baby in order to protect him or her from preventable diseases?
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"Matthew's death was preventable and should have been prevented," one of the women, Maureen Maloney, said in an interview after the event.
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Six children had previously died in the government-run home from 22016 through 22017, mostly from preventable health-related complications, officials said.
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Despite significant progress in the health sector, hospitals and clinics still struggle with hygiene, and Liberians continue to die of preventable illnesses.
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Also, car dependency is a leading contributor to the epidemic of preventable diseases that are linked to how we design our cities.
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The CDC attributes this in part to ongoing budget cuts that have limited the treatment and prevention of these highly preventable STDs.
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"The public should understand that the majority of us in the medical community are not anti-gun; we are anti-meaningless, preventable deaths."
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Dental disease is the most common disease among cat and dogs, even though it is also one of the more preventable pet ailments.
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The breach was "entirely preventable," lawmakers found, and the credit reporting agency's shit management did absolutely nothing to shield consumers from this mess.
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They added that the study findings "suggest that adopting this policy nationwide could substantively limit outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles."
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Research has shown the nation has the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world, and most of these deaths are completely preventable.
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Meanwhile, physicians and nurses from within the Orthodox community explained the real fear: that a child could die from a vaccine-preventable disease.
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"You have a death that was completely preventable, and you have a family who will never again see their son," Miller tells PEOPLE.
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Many believe their healthy lifestyle or prolonged breastfeeding ensures that their children will not experience the worst outcomes of a vaccine-preventable disease.
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As the preventable disease hepatitis A spread through homeless populations in California cities in 22017, 21957 million Yemenis contracted cholera amid a famine.
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"Both of these accidents were preventable, and the respective investigations found multiple failures by watch standers that contributed to the incidents," said Adm.
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"Cancer is preventable," Dr. Graham Colditz and Dr. Siobhan Sutcliffe of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis agreed in a commentary.
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The April 2014 outage was the result of a preventable software coding error at a call management center in Colorado, the FCC said.
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"It's serious and potentially fatal, but it is preventable," Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director, told reporters on a conference call.
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As millions on Earth die from preventable illness, poor sanitation and famine, technologies that serve alleged convenience and fantasy are irresponsible, not laudable.
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This condition is linked to 40,000 deaths a year in the UK, with the NHS estimating that a quarter of these are preventable.
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"It's so unusual and sad and a completely preventable death," Madison County State's Attorney Thomas D. Gibbons told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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But the legislation now headed for President Donald Trump's signature also will have this grim impact: thousands of additional, preventable deaths every year.
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For the new study, Waters sought to determine the prevalence of indoor tanning-related cancers, and calculate the costs of these preventable diseases.
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Experts say raising low U.S. adult vaccination rates would reduce healthcare spending by curbing preventable illnesses that result in doctor visits and hospitalizations.
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Measles is now the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be wiped out from the Americas, joining smallpox, polio, rubella, and congenital rubella syndrome.
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"If the agency had granted our 2011 petition promptly, thousands of women would have been spared serious, preventable life-altering harm," said Carome.
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But social media algorithms favored sensational content over scientific facts, rapidly convincing people who had never seen family members die from preventable illness.
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" Several of these bloggers muse that the bloodshed would have been preventable, if only the two boys had found "the love they deserved.
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One new report highlights that the most common causes of child death are preventable through interventions already available to the communities most affected.
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ProPublica and NPR, which have collaborated on an in-depth maternal mortality reporting project, note that many of these deaths are largely preventable.
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"These are largely preventable deaths," says Neehar Parikh, a hepatologist at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and the study's co-author.
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To drive home the point about Equifax's spectacular blunder, here are the highlights from a 2018 congressional report on the incident: Entirely preventable.
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It's been characterized as the largest outbreak of the preventable disease since 2000, the year that it was declared eliminated from the country.
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Doctors say these medical emergencies are largely preventable, but they are often approached differently by different hospitals, and with varying degrees of success.
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United States leadership is key in meeting this need, and stopping preventable maternal and child deaths by expanding access to family planning services.
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Co-founder Joginder Tanikella says that there are 600,000 preventable deaths in India as many in the region don't get regular doctor checkups.
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Trevor came on "TMZ Live" to tell us about his Dogbert's recent passing, and why the disease that killed him is totally preventable.
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Haller is also a pediatrician who has treated babies who developed meningitis from Haemophilus influenzae (now vaccine-preventable) and became blind—or died.
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Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.
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Studies of similar cuts made early in the Reagan administration show increases in infant mortality, preventable childhood diseases, and chronic disease among adults.
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So even if a device can't prevent SIDS, isn't it still worth it to monitor healthy babies for those preventable sleep-related deaths?
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According to UNICEF, a child dies every 10 minutes in the war-torn country from preventable causes like diarrhea, breathing infections and malnutrition.
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Rather than viewing violence as tragic, yet inevitable, proposed legislation aims to bolster existing efforts to understand it as a preventable health crisis.
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The Public Health Violence Prevention Act is driven by the urgent and straightforward understanding that violence is preventable and that violence begets violence.
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Conservatives generally take great umbrage when Trumpcare critics quite rightly note that taking health insurance away from millions will lead to preventable deaths.
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"The information leading people to fear for their children, for themselves, and for their families is causing outbreaks of preventable diseases," Lindenberger said.
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Former President Obama on Thursday said the public must remind itself that events like the mass shooting at a Maryland newspaper are preventable.
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There is a significant possibility it will have progressed to a stage where treatment is not an option, causing premature and preventable death.
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The 1999 landmark report "To Err is Human" called attention to the widespread problem of preventable medical errors, but remedy efforts remained fragmented.
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I've watched 30 children at our hospital alone die from measles, a preventable illness, because vaccines were not allowed into rebel held territory.
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These jurisdictions impede the federal government's ability to enforce immigration laws, needlessly endanger American lives and all too often result in preventable tragedies.
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Child fatalities should never happen, and they are preventable when state and federal legislators, child care workers, volunteers and loving citizens work together.
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An estimated 63,000 Yemeni children died last year of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said last week.
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Falls are one of the leading causes of preventable death among older adults and disorientation can be misinterpreted as the onset of dementia.
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The One Campaign, the advocacy group co-founded by the rock star Bono to combat extreme poverty and preventable disease, announced his death.
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Elevated blood pressure is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S. and manifests itself as heart disease and stroke.
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The health agency says the most common errors occur in diagnosis, prescription and use of medicines and that the deaths are completely preventable.
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Successful programs, such as Helping Babies Breathe, have shown the difference investing in health care infrastructure can make in reducing preventable newborn deaths.
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"Christmas is not here yet and we are already answering calls related to house fires caused by trees, and these are preventable fires."
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Despite the recent outbreaks, measles is totally preventable thanks to the two-dose MMR vaccine, which also immunizes kids against mumps and rubella.
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"This is a big win in the fight against the leading cause of preventable deaths in our country," Wiener said in a statement.
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The number of preventable deaths in this country are down from 2010, when chronic illness cost the nation a total of $315 billion.
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But the other half cannot wish it away, as the anti-vaccine crowd on the far left does for serious and preventable illnesses.
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Due in large measure to U.S. leadership, we have made great progress in the fight to bring preventable deaths among mothers to zero.
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Rates of largely preventable maternal mortality are absent as well, though the reports do link to an outdated World Health Organization white paper.
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Venezuela is suffering quadruple-digit inflation and chronic shortages of food and medicine, which have spurred increased incidents of malnutrition and preventable diseases.
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While we continue to develop strategies to prevent and treat addiction, what is clear is that opioid and heroin overdose deaths are preventable.
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In a few states, that percentage has even dipped below two-thirds of the population, leaving millions possibly susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Are insurance companies going to pay for the likely very expensive treatment of a preventable disease that has a relatively low mortality rate?
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Solutions that are not aimed at the true current cause of overdose deaths will more likely lead to unfortunate and preventable sad outcomes.
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Every day, about 830 women around the globe die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, according to the World Health Organization.
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If, however, the patient gets unnecessary care or ends up in the hospital for a preventable condition, the medical group can lose money.
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That approach could result in preventable deaths in places like New York and Michigan, where hospitals have already developed protocols for rationing ventilators.
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For years, he has told the Army of failures to defend children on U.S. bases from lead poisoning, a preventable household health hazard.
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What's more, not all cases of dementia are preventable; about 7 percent are linked with genetics and can't be modified with lifestyle changes.
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They included detailed instructions about best practices for various preventable complications that can arise during or after pregnancy, like hemorrhaging and pre-eclampsia.
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In other words, the murder of Mollie Tibbetts was not only ugly and evil, it was unnecessary and utterly preventable by government action.
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This means that, in theory, suicide should be preventable if we can deliver the right treatment to people who have these psychiatric illnesses.
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Most deaths are preventable and can be reduced through access to quality care and addressing the institutional racism within our country's medical system.
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As you get older, you are more likely to die from a preventable death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Keeping track of patients after they go home is increasingly important for hospitals, which are getting punished by the government for preventable readmissions.
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Here are four more things we must do in the coming two weeks to stave off preventable deaths and shorten the coronavirus outbreak.
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Without them, on the kidney transplant list as elsewhere in society, Americans of color will continue to die early, tragic and preventable deaths.
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That's a lot of money -- about $25 billion -- but a tiny fraction of what a preventable epidemic such as this one can cost.
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For starters, instead of thinking of VAWG as a problem that's hard to do anything about, let's see it as a preventable disease.
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We are at the point of being able to end preventable maternal and child deaths in low-income countries if we wanted to.
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It said 25% of reported cases in the country occurred in children under 5, who are most vulnerable to the vaccine-preventable disease.
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Fully funding U.N. agencies and the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases is the right thing to do, no matter where you stand politically.
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Seeing patients suffer for something that is preventable is very disheartening, in addition to the added strain it places on the healthcare system.
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Striking a balance Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the United States, according to the CDC.
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WHO has described the fact children die from a vaccine-preventable disease as a "collective failure" to protect the world's most vulnerable children.
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That report found that performance and training mistakes led to the "preventable" collisions between the U.S. guided-missile destroyers and foreign commercial ships.
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But for the 18 million citizens who develop Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), the possibility of a preventable limb amputation is a stark reality.
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It was the worst mining tragedy in four decades and it was preventable; the mine violated safety standards and amassed thousands of violations.
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That's according to a new report by the National Safety Council that analyzed the causes of preventable deaths in the country in 2017.
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Both Betts and Fernback's deaths were preventable—if they had been taught how to take molly responsibly, they could still be alive today.
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The "90210" alum told us the disease is totally preventable, but he's pissed because too many breeders pass on a simple lab test.
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Add to that the $4.8 billion estimated annual cost of treating preventable hypoglycemia, and it is clear that generalizations of this kind are dangerous.
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It's a stark reminder that even with all the surveillance in the world — a parallel to the NSA security state — attacks aren't always preventable.
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But researchers like Staples are also worried that these entirely preventable deaths will become more common the more pot is legalized and widely used.
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They note that alcohol wasn't even included as a preventable risk factor in a comprehensive report on dementia published by The Lancet last year.
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We also focus a lot more on the anti-vaccine movement and their concerns than on the astounding progress made against vaccine-preventable diseases.
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"Another important finding is the astounding number of firearm injuries, the vast majority of which are completely preventable with appropriate prevention measures," Sauaia said.
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Were one to assign blame here, they might take some cues from experts in safe working environments who pay close attention to preventable hazards.
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Parents should remember that what this study says is "that injuries are often part of the challenge, and injuries can be preventable," he said.
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Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the US, and vaping companies have long claimed their e-cigarettes can help smokers quit.
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This is completely preventable and I wish someone would come up with a way of keeping us humans from being human and forgetting stuff.
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"Stroke is very often preventable," Dr. Larry Goldstein, professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Kentucky, previously told Insider.
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Although the attack did not interrupt service, denial-of-service attacks are easily preventable, and most large organizations no longer consider them major threats.
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High blood pressure accounts for the second-largest number of preventable heart disease and stroke deaths in the United States, second only to smoking.
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Undereye bags can be caused by a laundry list of things, some preventable (pulling an all-nighter) and some not so much (allergies; genetics).
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Citizens are suffering from malnutrition and preventable diseases because they cannot find food and medicine or cannot afford them because of triple-digit inflation.
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There are dangers associated with clandestine sales of mifepristone, and there will be preventable tragedies as women dose themselves without medical supervision or advice.
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"We think of poverty, hunger and disease and people dying today from preventable causes that nobody should be dying from in 2016," Hayhoe said.
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Before the vaccine became available, the prevalence of vaccine-preventable strains of HPV was 18.6 percent among sexually active 14 to 24 year olds.
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This is the first time since 2011 that the world has declared a famine, which is a very rare and typically actually preventable event.
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Fortunately, a new report by UNICEF finds that a large share of these deaths are preventable, suggesting that plenty of additional improvement is possible.
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Editor's Note: A previous version of this article mistakenly stated that drug overdoses were the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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Despite the advancements in tobacco control policies in Brazil, tobacco remains the country's leading cause of preventable death, the group said in a statement.
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Its goals are ambitious: a 40 percent reduction in preventable harm for a range of conditions and a 20 percent reduction in hospital readmissions.
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