Sentences with phrase «defense against the common diseases»

Breast milk may «provide several tiers of active defense against the common diseases of infants, including diarrhea,» say investigators at Harvard Medical School in Boston, the Instituto Nacional de Nutricion in Mexico City, and elsewhere.

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A series of studies hailed vitamin D as a possible defense against a long list of diseases, including cancer, diabetes, depression, and even the common cold.

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund concludes.