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• n  the prevention of disease

• Visiting Russia in 1951, French Obstetrician Fernand Lamaze brought psycho-prophylaxis, a new form of childbirth preparation, back to France with him, began insisting that .
• For 15 days, they injected massive doses of the serum into the muscles of Matthew's abdomen, a painful prophylaxis that usually prevents the disease if begun early enough.
• While the current swine flu outbreak remains limited in scope, health agencies will likely offer antivirals as a prophylaxis only to those who may have been exposed to the disease .

News & Articles

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• Study Says HIV Drug Tenofovir Also Helps Prevent Contraction Of The Virus
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that a daily pill can prevent the contraction of HIV for intravenous drug users. The four-year study , which was published in The Lancet , boosts the argument of those advocating a preventative strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. "This is a significant step ...
  June 13, 2013 - redOrbit
• New PrEP Trial Results Among Injecting Drug Users Underscore That PrEP Works When Taken Consistently
  NEW YORK, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Results from the Bangkok Tenofovir Study published online today in The Lancet provide additional evidence that daily oral tenofovir-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces HIV infection risk when taken consistently. The results from the study—the first conducted among people who inject drugs—are consistent with previous studies among men ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Nicola Sturgeon in The Herald
  Ms Sturgeon said: "Where more sizeable clusters arise and where there is evidence of community transmission - such as we have seen in Dunoon, Glasgow and Paisley - our approach of tracing and offering prophylaxis to all close contacts becomes less...
• Steve Martin in Hollywood Reporter
  If a rape victim had immediate access to such services, she would be able to receive emergency contraception, like the 'morning after pill', as well as prophylaxis against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, not only to prevent pregnancy... Batista http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batista&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF0tkQ9Fu36AtRMfCHs3e3C6sJrxQ IPS http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp%3Fidnews%3D46105&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHm2Xgx1IvXjXKKKHKlaATiJm3SpQ Mar 13, 2009 78209 105183 propinquity In telling of an affair between a listless department store employee and a wealthy older businessman, Martin writes of a philanderer who is using the hours with her as a portal to his own need for propinquity."