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<jats:p>Moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood can have a lasting effect on individual well-being.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In an interview with <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , the current chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force defends the panel's controversial decisions on issues such as cancer screening. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Organizations and countries have tackled noncommunicable diseases with a variety of public health measures. <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> describes some notable examples. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Data suggesting that regular aspirin use lowers cancer risk has accumulated to the point where some argue that it's time to recommend that many more people take the drug.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The latest clinical studies linking low-dose aspirin use with less cancer suggest there's no need to improve upon this 113-year-old workhorse drug.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Several initiatives are evaluating if easing access to healthy food will change how Americans eat—and reduce obesity around the country.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Boosting levels of vitamin D with supplements has been touted to prevent diseases, but many scientists say only clinical trials now in the works can confirm such hopes.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Whether vaccines to prevent obesity, asthma, smoking-related illnesses, and other chronic diseases will ever work remains an open question.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—mainly cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases—are responsible for about two-thirds of deaths worldwide, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. There is an urgent need for policies and strategies that prevent NCDs by reducing their major risk factors. Effective approaches for large-scale NCD prevention include comprehensive tobacco and alcohol control through taxes and regulation of sales and advertising; reducing dietary salt, unhealthy fats, and sugars through regulation and well-designed public education; increasing the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats, and whole grains by lowering prices and improving availability; and implementing a universal, effective, and equitable primary-care system that reduces NCD risk factors, including cardiometabolic risk factors and infections that are precursors to NCDs, through clinical interventions.</jats:p>