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preventive medicine
noun as in contraceptive
noun as in health care
noun as in hygiene
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These guys can carry heartworm, which can be devastating to a dog that hasn’t been treated with preventive medicine.
Khan is the Magerstadt Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and an associate professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and a preventive cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine.
"Take care of your heart, and it will benefit your brain," said study lead author Imke Janssen, Ph.D., a professor of family and preventive medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
“It’s preventive medicine, cheaper when it’s preventive, and it helps all of us. This is not free, not free, not free,” Pena-Melnyk said for emphasis.
She advocates greater state responsibility in preserving some basic services, like preventive medicine or pediatric care — similar to policies in Oregon — though she acknowledged that model wouldn’t be able to support certain treatments for everyone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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