lifesaving

[lahyf-sayv-ing]

adjective

1. (especially of a medical treatment or facility) preventing deaths.

2. used in rescuing people who are in danger of drowning.

noun

1. the work of rescuing people in danger of drowning.

Example Sentences

This doesn’t materially improve transparency for investors, but it diverts time and money from the company’s mission of developing lifesaving therapies.

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For Big Pharma, the triumph of developing a new lifesaving blockbuster drug that generates billions in revenue is inevitably followed by the reality that drug patents have an expiration date.

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While they can issue false positives, she says, they occasionally reveal lifesaving findings like an aneurysm in one of her patients, which needed treating.

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Usually, anyone working near radiation would be required to carry this potentially lifesaving device.

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Even though the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative finding on nonfatal breast cancer wasn’t statistically significant, it triggered a media frenzy and led the public to view HRT as a carcinogen rather than a lifesaving medication.

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