preventive

Example Sentences

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"The reason preventive medicine doesn't work right now is because you don't want to go to the doctor all the time to get things tested," says Ramses Alcaide, co-founder and CEO of startup Neurable.

From Barron's

It is known as provisional - or preventive - detention and is meant to last until a case goes to court.

From BBC

The agency preventively closed an extensive swath of airspace extending 1,600 nautical miles from the launch site, across the Gulf of Mexico and through part of the Caribbean.

From Salon

She co-authored the paper with Jason Carbone, assistant professor of public health and preventive medicine and of family medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.

From Science Daily

Children without influenza who received oseltamivir as a preventive measure showed the same rate of events as children with no flu exposure.

From Science Daily