Curative Health Services Wins National Telly Award for Diabetes Awareness Month Video News Release.

Health/Medical Writers

Curative Health Services, Inc., (NASDAQ: CURE), has received a Telly Award, a national honor recognizing excellence in television and video production. The Telly Award has become one of the most sought-after awards in the television, commercial and video industry, and in the past 22 years, winners and finalists have come from a large cross-section of agencies, production companies, television stations and cable operations. In 2001 there were more than 11,000 entries.

The company received the award for a video news release (VNR) produced and distributed to coincide with the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Awareness Month in November. Designed to raise awareness of the potential complications of diabetes, the VNR featured actor Stephen Furst, best known for his role as Flounder in National Lampoon's Animal House. Furst has diabetes and narrowly avoided partial amputation of a foot due to improper foot and wound care.

The purpose of the VNR was to educate people with diabetes about the importance of proper foot care and encourage them to seek treatment if necessary.

Curative produced the project in association with Katcher Vaughn and Bailey Communications, a Nashville-based public relations and marketing firm, and Medialink Worldwide Incorporated. The VNR may be viewed at http://www.curative.com/CUEBIC/CURATIVE/ me.get?WEB.websections.show&CURATIVE_293 or by visiting Curative's Web site at www.curative.com. Click on "media" and then "press kits" to access the VNR.

About Curative Health Services

Curative Health Services (CURE) delivers superior clinical outcomes and unmatched patient satisfaction for patients experiencing serious medical conditions through two unique business units.

Curative's Specialty Pharmacy Services (SPS) business unit provides services to help patients manage the health care process, and offers related pharmacy products to patients for chronic and critical disease states such as Hemophilia.

Curative Health Services' Specialty Healthcare Services (SHS) business unit is an industry leader in chronic wound care management, consistently achieving an outcome success rate of more than 80 percent. SHS provides a broad continuum of services to health care providers through a nationwide network. This national network of approximately 100 hospital-based Wound Care Center programs, has offered comprehensive treatment to over 300,000 patients, achieving more than a 95 percent patient satisfaction rate.

For more information, visit www.curative.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the termination or non-renewal of a material number of contracts, an inability to obtain new contracts, changes in the government regulations relating to the Company's Specialty Healthcare Services or Specialty Pharmacy Services business units, changes in the regulations governing third party reimbursements for the Company's services, manufacturing shortages of products sold by Curative's Specialty Pharmacy Services business unit and the other risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this release are referred to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002, Amendment No. 3 to its Form S-3 filed May 24, 2002 and Form S-3 filed May 28, 2002 for further discussion of these and other factors that could affect future results.