Millions of babies' lives could be saved

Thousands of lives could be saved using tranexamic acid for patients with bleeding trauma.

A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of tranexamic acid (TXA), which reduces clot breakdown, in patients with bleeding after severe injury shows that this inexpensive drug could save tens of thousands of lives a year. The review found that TXA reduces the risk of death in injured patients with severe bleeding by about 10% compared with giving no treatment. Th...

Public health measures to reduce smoking prevalence in the UK: how many lives could be saved?

OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of deaths that could be prevented in the UK by implementing population strategies to reduce smoking prevalence. DESIGN A prospective analysis of future mortality using recent national smoking prevalence data and relative risks of mortality in current smokers, ex-smokers, and never-smokers. POPULATION Smokers in the UK. INTERVENTIONS Population measures of ...

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

How Much Could Be Saved with Improved Education ?

Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health

© Center for Global Development. All Rights Reserved. * Based on the CGD book Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health, by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group with Molly Kinder. This brief includes updates and information from additional cases. A second edition of Millions Saved is available through Jones and Bartlett Publishers at http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/0763746207. M ar...