To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster â either way, you are avoiding something. The verb avert comes from Latin roots that mean to turn away from.. Averting has that sense of deflecting, turning away, or preventing something (usually bad) from happening. You might put salt on an icy sidewalk to avert accidents, or you might avert a toddler's meltdown by supplying a lollipop.
Office of Mental Health. Medication Grant Program. In August of 1999, the Governor signed Kendra's Law. This legislation provided assisted outpatient treatment for some individuals in New York's Mental Health system. Information on this section of the law is easily accessible through the OMH web page.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 8:00am. EDT. Pfizer Inc. today announced the launch of a new competitive grants program the company is funding to support research projects investigating the role of Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin type 9 (PCSK9) in health and cardiovascular disease.his release contains forward-looking information about a product candidate, bococizumab and the PCSK9 competitive grants program, including their potential benefits, that involves substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.