On at least two other occasions, once each in the United States and Russia, space-based sensors played the same lifesaving role after other systems sent mistaken warnings.
In contrast, they continued, a group of medications called beta-blockers, which tone down the sympathetic nervous system, have proved lifesaving for such patients, although doctors have been slow to switch to these drugs.
3, 26, 50, 51 HSCT reconstitutes a functional immune system and is lifesaving.
We need to put in place systems to provide lifesaving care for accident victims.
Whether to undertake a compassionate-use program for drugs that improve the quality of life but do not prolong it -- ranolazine, the drug CV Therapeutics has developed, is one example -- poses "a delicate question," said Tony Plohoros, a spokesman for Merck, a company that has systems to distribute lifesaving drugs in poor countries where there is a need.
As the Global Fund is often the only donor providing lifesaving commodities and related health systems support, such delays lead to stock outs and therefore interruptions in essential treatment [ 43, 52].
For the Japanese researchers who came up with the horseradish-based alarm system, it was a lifesaving piece of work, but on Thursday night they entered the history books with the award of the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry.
"It would make it impossible to develop lifesaving medicines from the human genome system".
Given that all facilities assessed are considered referral centers for lower-level clinics, the lack of doctors at 5% of facilities, lack of anesthetists at 10% of facilities and lack of obstetrician/gynecologists at 51% of facilities raises serious concerns about the capacity of the health system to respond with lifesaving care for women with obstetric complications.
But Santos-Burgoa stressed it's not just Puerto Rico that is need of a mortality surveillance system that gives officials possibly lifesaving information in the aftermath of a natural disaster; all states and jurisdictions should have such a system as part of their disaster preparedness plans.
