curative
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Transplantation is now a potentially curative treatment for the disease, although it remains an intensive procedure with significant risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Pricing a superior — and curative — drug at a similar level as the currently available treatment seemed like a good deal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In reality, patients who unknowingly enrolled in hospice discovered they couldn’t get any curative care, meaning access to certain medications and life-sustaining treatments like dialysis was immediately cut off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
The curative program is never really underway until this happens.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
