therapeutic

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No vaccine or therapeutic treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola responsible for the latest outbreak of the disease, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half century.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Kennedy has a real talent for taking reactionary, often sadistic ideas and reframing them to sound compassionate and therapeutic.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

Ruud Dobber, executive vice president of AstraZeneca’s biopharmaceuticals business, said the approval brings a new treatment to a disease that has had little therapeutic progress for the past two decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The work could lead to a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach for discovering serotonin-targeting drugs that provide some of the therapeutic effects linked to psychedelics without dramatically altering perception.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

For many black people in the region, watching the evidence that we had presented in court now laid out on national television was therapeutic.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson