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.
Neural tube defects and congenital heart disease would be among the common non-cleft birth defects where early intervention may prove life saving until appropriate surgical or medical care can be completed.
The Houston pediatric hospital is asking nursing mothers in the area to donate their excess milk, which has proved life-saving for prematurely born babies whose mothers are unable to produce enough to meet the infant's needs.
*While high-dose statins have proved life-saving and even low-dose Mevacor can lower cholesterol, Merck never proved that a mere 10 milligrams a day would prevent heart attacks in moderate-risk patients.
Along with the research being done that has proved life-saving in some cases, some Silicon Valley start-ups (one being uBiome) have risen to the challenge of trying to make sense of the data that could one day (soon) come from sampling a wide array of personal microbiomes.
Although these devices have proved to be life saving in certain circumstances (e.g., after accidents) and helped improve the quality of life in some sectors, concerns continue to be raised about potential adverse health impacts associated with their use.
Although mobile phone use has proved to be life saving in certain circumstances (e.g., after accidents) and has helped improve the quality of life in some sectors, concerns continue to be raised about potential adverse health impacts associated with their use.
Whereas BMC was losing millions a year under the old contracts, this new strategy has proven to be life saving for the hospital.
One might wonder why this is an important distinction to make, but considering that increased mortality in sepsis may be correlated with increasing fluid administration [ 5], it would seem that being able to distinguish between isolated systolic, diastolic, or combined dysfunction may prove to be life saving.
54 Prompt transfusion can be life saving.
