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Yet here we are in 2014, still arguing over our right to have access to this important preventive care.

Migraine drugs fall into two categories: preventive and abortive.

Now, preventive protocols—like mammograms, colonoscopies, and Prostate-Specific Antigen tests—are being questioned.

There have been studies that demonstrated a clear preventive benefit for circumcised males.

Something like reducing obesity can be best done through preventive care that kicks in well before a person has a BMI in the 40s.

Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.

It is usual to have recourse to this valuable invention only when disease is actually existing—as a preventive, it is neglected.

For instance, the decrease may have been due to extra preventive work done by welfare officers.

As to the use of antitoxin as a preventive and cure for diphtheria, too much praise cannot be given to that wonderful discovery.

Or, a better preventive is a canvass or leather cap to protect the neck entirely from the storm.