In a fortnight, even life-saving surgery will be impossible.

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Which means that our parallel importer might be taking necessary, life saving even, drugs away from someone in that low priced market to sell them in the high priced one.

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As long as that attitude is pervasive, the high price of prescription drugs is likely to remain a problem for drugmakers, who are baffled that they are nearly as reviled as tobacco companies even though they make life saving medicines.

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"This is our first task as a society -- keeping our children safe, " the president said, adding that saving even one life would make the changes he seeks worth the effort.

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Family members exhaust every life-saving intervention for an elderly relative, even when the prospects of significant life extension are minimal.

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Also known as health promoters, peer educators such as Huynh are proving particularly effective at helping newcomers overcome such barriers as lack of insurance, confusion about the U.S. health care system, insufficient information on potentially life-saving cancer screenings and even cultural taboos that make it difficult for some women to acknowledge and seek medical help.

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