life-saving medicine
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflife-savingandmedicine
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life-saving
adjective
uk/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/us/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/
done to prevent someone ...
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medicine
noun
uk/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/us/ˈmed.ɪ.sən/
treatment for illness or injury, or the study ...
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(Definition oflife-savingandmedicinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Hence, we do not give him alife-savingmedicineto which he has a right.
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Aslife-savingmedicinehas become more advanced and successful, so in general it has become more expensive.
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In other words, someone who requires onelife-savingmedicinecan claim all prescriptions free, irrespective of his or her income.
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She is ultimately saved by eating thelife-savingmedicinethat her father gave her, in the case of an emergency.
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Thousands of people, some of them starving, have been brought down from the mountains, fed and sheltered and provided with life-saving medicines.
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There are now alternatives - cheap copies of life-saving medicines.
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What is particularly serious is the fact that the number of falsifications of life-saving medicines is increasing.
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These falsified products are evolving: they now include life-saving medicines as well as lifestyle medicines.
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The commercial availability of a variety of falsified medicines, especially life-saving medicines, has therefore rightly aroused the fears of citizens.
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We also saw an increase in the trend for falsifying even life-saving medicines, including medicines to treat cancer and heart disease, psychiatric disorders and infections.
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To date, counterfeit products have mainly come under the heading of 'life-style' drugs, whereas there is currently a dramatic increase in the number of counterfeit life-saving medicines.
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The report observes a trend from the falsification of 'lifestyle' medicines to life-saving medicines, including medicines to treat cancer and heart disease, psychiatric disorders and infections.
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The pharmaceutical industry produces life-saving medicines.
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There may be the political explanation that patent law should not obstruct the production of life-saving medicines in emergency situations, this explanation is not entirely satisfactory.
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The project is targeted to development and sharing of know-how for manufacture of essential and life-saving medicines.
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