The word 'curative' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that can be used to heal, restore, or correct something. For example, "The doctor prescribed a curative for the patient's illness."
Although the little guys may be good at discovering drugs, Merck is much better at turning promising molecules into something curative you can swallow.As Merck's top scientists see it, their rivals go shopping for ideas because they are not clever enough to come up with their own.
Using another new technique, high-throughput screening, these compounds can be tested for their ability to zap diseases much faster than was possible in the days when pills were checked for curative powers by feeding them to sick animals.These techniques which also include things like "bio-informatics" and "rational drug design"—are likely to have a huge effect on the drug industry.
Small wonder the rhino and other endangered species are feeling the pressure.The same, after all, is true of many other species whose products are much sought-after in Asia for their culinary, curative or decorative properties.
It is a complicated thought for westerners, even if they suspend their disbelief in the curative qualities of deadly spiders, but a painfully clear one to Chinese.Mr Wei has not only spent much of the past 17 years without freedom in China's laogai, he has been held in solitary confinement and repeatedly tortured.
America scores poorly because of the health insurers' rule that they pay for palliative care only if a patient relinquishes curative treatments.In this section A tide turns Shifting up a gear Grim reapings ReprintsThe report combines hard statistics such as life expectancy and health-care spending as a share of GDP with weighted assessments of other indicators.
The French know it as la méthode Coué, after an early 20th-century quack who touted the curative value of autosuggestion.
Ahead of us, he sees embryo research slipping inexorably from strictly curative purposes into selective breeding for intelligence, sex and personality designer babies and worse.Though he shares fears with religious believers, Mr Fukuyama's book is not a tract and his case is made without recourse to the supernatural.
According to Marta Weigle and Peter White in "The Lore of New Mexico", the word Chimayo comes from the Tewa language, and a mud pool where the church is now used to be a curative Tewa Indian shrine.The Santa Fe fiestas begin and end in fire.
Jim's enduring love of books, and his reliance on the written word as a curative force, is a constant theme.
While competition has demonstrable benefits, it must occur within an appropriate institutional framework.Kenneth ButtonGeorge Mason UniversityFairfax, VirginiaSIR – You assume that European and American liberalisation is sufficient for a curative "open skies" agreement.
The evidence for gaming's curative and therapeutic benefits, by contrast, is rather more convincing.
