preventive
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“We need to pay attention much earlier,” said Blumenthal, director of preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Efforts to reduce costs without cutting the care offered include safety training, encouraging preventive care and on-site health screenings.
The agency acknowledged Novo’s corrective and preventive actions since the inspection, but said the company’s responses didn’t ensure that future violations would be prevented.
"In reality, any potential preventive effect takes over a decade to appear, if it appears at all, while the bleeding risk begins immediately."
From Science Daily
That’s the preventive logic and the core shared interest behind the Iran campaign.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.