What about having life saving emergency information in the palm of your hands?
It's not often that a five minute check on Facebook can have life-saving consequences.
A seven-year-old cancer sufferer is due to have life-saving surgery today after a High Court judge intervened to order the operation against his mother's wishes.
"Women have a right to know that, if the worst happens, they will be able to have life-saving treatment.
My IBD diagnosis puts me at a higher risk for colon cancer and it comforts me to know that I can have life-saving surgery should I ever need it.
For years there has been an injustice in the global response to diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria: while prevention has been emphasized worldwide, only in developed countries have life-saving medicines been widely available.
Although vaccines have proven life saving against a myriad of infectious diseases, various pathogens have remained refractory to prophylaxis of their host by active immunization.
Antimicrobials have been life saving on a broad scale, and non-prescription use may have certainly enabled wide access in these settings.
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa has been life saving.
5) Colon cancer is relatively slow growing; people must be expected to live 5 to 10 years to have their life saved from colon cancer screening.
Second, women participating in a screening programme are more likely to be overdiagnosed than to have their life saved by screening.
