And they can easily drop hospice care and return to curative treatment whenever they want.
Europe is just a case of more prophylactic measures for the euro, not curative medicine.
The evidence for gaming's curative and therapeutic benefits, by contrast, is rather more convincing.
Happily, the cancer drug Erbitux had a curative effect on him, as did the methods of Dr. Everett Nokes.
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Long before Hippocrates advised "Let food be your medicine, " garlic was prized as much for its curative powers as for its flavor.
Until we put these fundamentals in place no routine public health, nor curative health, can be carried out predictably, cost effectively and reliably.
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For these patients, the traditional hospice rules applied in order to qualify for home hospice, they had to give up attempts at curative treatment.
In a small number of patients, a stem cell transplant can be curative, but the therapy can also be fatal, especially in older patients.
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This second tumor shrinkage finding could be important for the minority of patients whose metastases are only slightly too big to attempt a curative surgery.
They also discovered that only two hospitals in the country gave CT scans to patients being considered for curative treatment within the recommended time of two weeks.
"This new treatment is likely to be better, although current treatments are not curative, and it is unlikely that orexin would be curative, " he told BBC News Online.
"There's no evidence that bone-marrow transplantation is curative, " says Schenkein.
We were desperate for some spring, as we are in the Northeast right now, and a day trip to Lisse (about 30 minutes from Centraal Station by train) seemed like the perfect curative.
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The story is a legend at best, but in 1535, historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo wrote that Ponce de Leon was vainly seeking curative waters in order to reverse his sexual impotence.
They knew that only a small percentage of the terminally ill ever halted efforts at curative treatment and enrolled in hospice, and that, when they did, it was usually not until the very end.
Vaccination against major disease has proven wildly successful and cost-effective at preventing illness, though it does not bring the much-touted fanfare of so many popular public health initiatives: Vaccines lack an instant curative quality, and rarely make the news.
If the Elite Eight factors revealed a litany of verifiable facts about every school making promises to teenagers, and puts those promises under a microscope, it lead to an indictment against the transgressors that is far more curative than NCAA sanctions.
Instead, Obama chose to act as politicians are wont to do, his interventions poured cold water on the economic recovery for blunting the curative that was the Bush recession, and the result was a competitive campaign for re-election when he should have won by a landslide.
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