The drug crazed purse snatcher may have found even his hardened conscience moved by the life saving prosthesis the ill gotten woman's handbag revealed, which runs on the same rechargeable power cell as an electric man's razor, and may well have continued to beat and bleed for a period of time in the rudely disconnected purse.
As an ordained minister, I know the power that faith communities can wield by providing life saving education and advocacy.
We must build upon the Initiative's success by expanding our activities into other measles-ravaged areas such as Asia and by incorporating additional life saving tools such as malaria bed nets.
An Israeli humanitarian organisation, Save A Child's Heart, which is partly funded by the government, provides life saving heart treatment - free of charge - to children from around the world.
Or how about firefighters that can operate large life saving machines by using their minds alone?
The results show that even the upper bound of USD 400 per life saved by these interventions is far lower than what is typically paid to save a life in a less-developed country.
The results of this study show that even the upper bound of USD 400 per life saved by these interventions is far lower than what is typically currently paid to save a life in a less-developed country.
The Express Scripts study recalculated the cost of one year of life saved by prescribing COX-2 drugs as exceeding $100,000, up from $18,614 in an earlier study.
Similarly, we calculated the years of life saved by determining the number of life years gained from dark chocolate consumption compared without.
However, quantifying the societal cost of death is difficult, and cost-effectiveness analyses based on cost per life saved by treatment only and prophylaxis, compared to no action, were included.
After acute myocardial infarction, increasing the use of beta-blockers would prevent 11 deaths in the next year among a population of 100,000 at a cost of £158 per life-year saved, compared with 4 deaths prevented at a cost of £423 per life saved by increasing the smoking quit rate [ 17].
