life-saving drug
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflife-savinganddrug
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life-saving
adjective
uk/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/us/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/
done to prevent someone ...
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drug
noun[C]
uk/drʌɡ/us/drʌɡ/
any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as ...
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(Definition oflife-savinganddrugfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Let us consider the possibility that this is alife-savingdrug.
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Citizens of less-developed countries simply lack the means to pay market prices for life-saving drugs.
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The average value takes into account the variations in the price of the drugs as some life-saving drugs are more valuable than the others.
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Modern primary health care makes use of drug technology, taking responsibility for the administration of powerful, life-saving drugs.
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That is in part because of the expenditure of almost £1 billion a year on statins, the life-saving drugs.
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Seriously ill children may be receiving inadequate doses of life-saving drugs, while others may be receiving worryingly high and potentially harmful doses of inappropriate treatments.
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I want other minor operations regularly employed in the preparation of life-saving drugs to be excepted as well.
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We have not touched the life-saving drugs; we have not touched many of the more advanced areas.
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Others would favour compulsory generic substitution across the whole range of drugs, including what are undoubtedly life-saving drugs.
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More and more innovative and life-saving drugs are counterfeit.
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We must press for these life-saving drugs to be made available as cheaply as possible.
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If we discourage and penalise innovation, we cannot expect new life-saving drugs.
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It would undermine the pharmaceutical industry and make research into worth-while and life-saving drugs difficult, if not impossible.
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They proclaim that their current proposals do not affect the more important or life-saving drugs.
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One is that 111 pensioners have free drugs, and the other is that life-saving drugs on a certain list are free to everyone.
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Thousands of cancer victims are denied expensive life-saving drugs.
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In addition, increasing numbers of innovative and life-saving drugs are falsified.
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It also appears that the exemptions discriminate against smaller countries which lack the manufacturing base to produce the required life-saving drugs under compulsory licences.
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Is it really the intention to apply this to life-saving drugs?
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