Sentence examples for approved to prevent from inspiring English sources

In contrast, no drug has ever been approved to prevent lung cancer, and only six drugs have ever been approved to prevent any type of cancer.

But in 2006, a vaccine was approved to prevent shingles for those who already had chickenpox.

Xarelto would join one other new drug approved to prevent strokes in people with the arrhythmia.

It was previously approved to prevent clots after hip and knee replacement surgeries.

The big news in the war on cervical cancer is the new vaccine recently approved to prevent the disease.

The drug was approved to prevent blood clots in people born with a rare hereditary deficiency of antithrombin while they undergo surgery or childbirth.

The drug is approved to help prevent infections in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, but the F.D.A. has issued an "emergency use authorization" that would allow the drug to be used to treat radiation exposure.

In some circles, predominately White gay men, PrEP has been widely known to be effective for a few years and even taken off-label before it was FDA-approved to prevent infection.

This polymer was modified from a similar coating FDA-approved to prevent infections of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (Pivit™ AB and AigisRx™ CRM) [52].

So as the publication BioCentury recently noted, if a drug maker wanted to offer discounts based on a drug's ability to shorten or reduce hospital stays, it can't--not unless FDA explicitly says that the drug is approved to reduce or prevent hospital stays.

Raloxifene, sold by Eli Lilly & Company under the name Evista, is now approved only to prevent bone-thinning.