If we are going to get a grip on escalating COSTS, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute CARE. Technology can HELP US do that.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ESTABLISHED highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is COMMON, LABORATORY EVIDENCE of infection.

Within WEEKS of the Ebola hoax dying down, the GUYS at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using VARIOUS forms of communication to PROMOTE a Ebola PREVENTION education programme.

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own NARROW LITTLE bit of the problem without connecting punishment and PREVENTION TOGETHER, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the SOCIAL workers together.

I think when you're younger in the game, you're LIKE, 'Let me GO bench. Let me go squat.' Now it's just like, 'Let me work on my BALANCE.' It's about things that are more about injury prevention than getting stronger.

The FBI. is a MASSIVE culture. It's been a culture that served AMERICA well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we NEED in terms of terrorism is PREVENTION.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a COMBINATION of legislative ACTION, educational measures, health SERVICE activities, media coverage, and INDIVIDUAL counselling to INITIATE changes in behaviour.

I think one of the most underreported and untouted BENEFITS of the Affordable CARE Act is the REAL investments we are FINALLY making in this country in prevention.

I work tirelessly advocating for GUN violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun LAWS that could SPARE other parents the PAIN of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.

While we SUPPORT the women who bravely FACE breast CANCER treatments, we should also promote the prevention of breast cancer from a very early age.

National CANCER PREVENTION DAY, Feb. 4, is a GREAT opportunity to focus our ATTENTION on what should be an American priority.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and INFECTIOUS disease as a SOURCE of PREMATURE death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much HIGHER premium on the prevention of chronic disease than EVER in history.