What's the Difference Between a Treatment and a Cure? My health
teacher told me that hepatitis B has no cure, but your article
states that it is treated. What's that all about? The term
"cure" means that, after medical treatment, the patient no
longer has that particular condition anymore. Some diseases can
be cured. Others, like hepatitis B, have no cure. The person
will always have the condition, but medical treatments can help
to manage the disease. Medical professionals use medication,
therapy, surgery, and other treatments to help lessen the
symptoms and effects of a disease. Sometimes these treatments
are cures — in other words, they get rid of the disease. For
example, doctors treat athlete's foot using antifungal creams
and sprays that kill the fungus causing the disease. When a
disease can't be cured, doctors often use treatments to help
control or even eliminate its symptoms and effects. For example,
one type of diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not produce
enough insulin to get glucose into ce