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The gold standard of treatment is ranibizumab (Lucentis, Genentech Inc.), which was FDA approved for AMD in 2006 ... "Our study aimed to offer early, six-month results of a randomized, double-masked, single center clinical trial comparing the off-label use of bevacizumab with the current gold standard ranibizumab. With a total of 20 subjects and a 2:1 randomization, early results of this trial suggest that at 6 months, visual outcomes of bevacizumab appear to be no different from ranibizumab,"... (EurekAlert!)
KIRO 7's Michelle Millman: Coping With Chemo Oct 10, 2009
Dr. Taylor tells me mammograms remain the 'gold standard' for finding breast cancer and DIGITAL mammograms are preferred. Although my breast cancer was not seen on my 2 previous mammograms, mammograms DO show 70-80% of breast cancers. (KIRO TV, WA)
Reading Festival promoters fined Oct 9, 2009
Reading council itself had failed to spot the danger the cables posed and the festival organisers operated to a "gold standard" in navigating their way through a "health and safety minefield", the court heard. Deputy District Judge Peter Greenfield said it was "rather strange neither the council nor the company took the time to realise there might be a hazard from the over-head wires". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Marriage At Risk In D.C. Oct 8, 2009
Anyone familiar with the historic civil rights movement knows that the right to vote not the right to marry was the gold standard of civil rights privileges. . (Townhall.com)
Surgeons' Unanimous Consensus: Needle Biopsy Is Gold Standard For Breast Cancer Diagnosis Oct 8, 2009
A panel of leading breast disease specialists recently convened at the International Consensus Conference on Image Detected Breast Cancer III and unanimously agreed that percutaneous needle biopsy represents "best practice" and should be the "gold standard" for initial diagnosis of breast abnormalities. The recommendations were reached after building clinical evidence since the preceeding Consensus Conferences in 2001 and 2005, yet little progress is being made in reducing the number of open... (Science Daily)
Gene Test Might Predict Tamoxifen's Effectiveness Oct 8, 2009
The findings, which appear in the Oct. 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, could allow clinicians to predict which women will benefit most from the drug, which has been the gold standard of breast cancer care for the past 25 years. Women who do carry the gene variant may be candidates for alternative treatments. (MEDLINEplus)
Atlantic Hockey capsules Oct 7, 2009
The Falcons remain the gold standard. 2. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Council members push for openness Oct 7, 2009
Among the state's four counties, Bynum and Kawahara speak with reverence of Honolulu's Web site as "the gold standard." There, Internet users can find council minutes, agendas and public testimony, plus MP3 audio files and video recordings of meetings. Honolulu and Maui have been posting their council business online since 2004 and the Big Island since 2000. (Honolulu Advertiser)
From Lidge to ledge, closers make playoffs tense Oct 7, 2009
Rivera, however, remains the gold standard, a sure thing for the New York Yankees for more than a decade. "We have the greatest closer of all time," teammate Mark Teixeira praised. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Extremely Preterm Infants Receive More Treatments, But Are No More Likely To Survive Than In Previous Decade Oct 7, 2009
"The gold standard for decision making is a collaborative one that balances physician, parent and fetal/infant concerns. Better understanding of the process of this decision making, and its long-term impact on families, is critical to designing further studies with the most clinically relevant outcomes.". Journal reference. (Science Daily)
New Studies See a Higher Rate of Autism: Is the Jump Real? Oct 6, 2009
Experts not involved in the study caution that parent surveys are not the gold standard for measuring the prevalence of a medical condition. "The fact that 40% of the parents reporting that their child had received an ASD diagnosis now say the child no longer met criteria does suggest that there may be over-reporting in this survey," says Craig Newschaffer, a leading autism epidemiologist at Drexel University School of Public Health. (Time.com)
New eateries taking root in W. Phila. Oct 6, 2009
Gold Standard Caf;, at 4800 Baltimore Ave., was opened by the owners of the original Gold Standard on the Penn campus. More recently, they owned Abbraccio in University City. (Philadelphia Business Journal, PA)
Dollar Stores: A Great Price for the Recession Oct 6, 2009
" Despite the risks, many analysts still like Dollar Tree's plan. Though the worst of the downturn may be over, the recovery promises to be slow. "Extreme value is going to be the gold standard as far as the eye can see," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz iates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm. In addition, Dollar Tree is well positioned to take advantage of low real estate prices. "Landlords are looking for growing retailers to fill vacant boxes," says Champine.... (Time.com)
Minimally invasive procedure effective for treating snoring Oct 5, 2009
In contrast to obstructive sleep apnea, no generally accepted gold standard is available for the treatment of primary snoring. The researchers noted that prior to their study long-term research results surrounding radiofrequency surgery of primary snoring were limited. (EurekAlert!)
Examining the most important questions facing Arizona Oct 4, 2009
The center, an independent non-profit, hired Gallup because of its reputation as "the gold standard" of polling companies, said Lattie Coor, the former Arizona State University president who founded the Center for the Future of Arizona in 2002. Gallup surveyed by telephone a random sample of 3,606 Arizona adults and then followed up with 831 respondents who agreed to participate in an online poll. (AZCentral -- News)
You Can Thrive! Burlesque Show Celebrates the Girls and the Women Who Are Battling to Keep Them Oct 3, 2009
Melissa Gold, Gold Standard PR Email: 703. 599. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Acorda Therapeutics Fampridine-SR likely to receive FDA approval with REMS/black box label Oct 3, 2009
A REMS consultant, who previously worked at the FDA, said Biogen Idecs and Elans risk management program for its leading multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is the example the FDA uses as the gold standard for REMS. Biogen has obtained ex-US rights to Fampridine-SR and Elan receives seven percent of royalties on the drug. To minimize the number of seizures that may occur with Fampridine-SR, the company may need to have patient specific procedures in place to prevent things like overdose, a... (FT.com -- Markets)
Confusion is currency of the day Oct 3, 2009
To further illustrate the point, consider that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has repeatedly emphasized that the US emerged from the Great Depression because of (a) a guarantee of retail deposits (think guarantee of the entire banking system in the most recent crisis) and (b) the US going off the gold standard to weaken the US dollar and allow the price level to rise. Our interpretation is that the Fed wants to have a weaker US dollar to induce inflation to allow home prices to rise and... (Asia Times Online)
Comcast & DirecTV Battle at Fair Oct 2, 2009
This is the kind of customer service that I talked about before which made DirecTV the gold standard of multichannel providers. Farm Aid This Weekend on DirecTV. (Multichannel News)
This one a chip off the old Doc Oct 2, 2009 Obama to Front Chicago's Olympics Bid Oct 1, 2009 Cal puts focus on USC Oct 1, 2009 G-20 Found `Good Balance' on Banking Regulations, Scotiabank's Waugh Says Sep 30, 2009 AstraZenecas Brilinta expected to get expedited approval with no major label restrictions Sep 25, 2009 Ryan right man at right time Sep 25, 2009 HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy... Sep 25, 2009 Internet meltdown threat: Conficker worm refuses to turn Sep 24, 2009 What The Hell Is Wrong With DirecTV Sep 24, 2009 Our view: Questions for AHFC Sep 24, 2009 Windows Upgrades Made Easier Sep 23, 2009 Transocean Ltd. Ranked Among World's Top 50 Companies in Latest Carbon Disclosure Project 2009 Global 500 Report Sep 23, 2009 Minimal training improves ventilation skills Sep 23, 2009 * Economists need to study bubbles, reinvent models Sep 22, 2009 Jury Weighs Conflicting Opinions on Link of Zoloft Use to Violence Sep 22, 2009 The Man Who Made Oz Sep 22, 2009 Linda Smith has played a key role in the fight against human-trafficking, child exploitation Sep 22, 2009 Terps Play Host to Saint Peter's Tuesday Sep 21, 2009 Cheap, Quick Bedside 'Eye Movement' Exam Outperforms MRI For Diagnosing Stroke In Patients Sep 21, 2009 Bradley: Test ahead in New England Sep 21, 2009 Real property tax appeals unclear Sep 21, 2009 State's child-care system still flawed Sep 20, 2009 How would you rate the Jackets performance? Sep 19, 2009 DeBartolo to be honored by 49ers over weekend Sep 19, 2009 Hopes to stop paving dim as railroad continues RR lot near Spectacle Pond Sep 19, 2009 The Redemption of Keynes Sep 19, 2009 Did Bernanke save us from another Great Depression? Sep 18, 2009 "We need new banks" Sep 18, 2009 LVMH in the recession: The substance of style Sep 18, 2009 The Testing Giants Come Out Swinging Sep 17, 2009 TV doctor makes house calls Sep 17, 2009 3ality Digital and Cinedigm Agree to Collaborate on Production and Distribution of Alternative 3D Entertainment Sep 17, 2009 End the Fed -- A Preview Sep 17, 2009 St. John Properties to build R&D space at Maple Lawn Sep 17, 2009 Understanding Implications Of Prenatal Testing For Down Syndrome Sep 16, 2009 iSniff: Pocket-Size Pollution Sensors Promise Big Improvement in Monitoring Personal Environment Sep 16, 2009 Commentary: Atkins wants to continue working for district Sep 16, 2009 Recycling gets big boost with new center Sep 16, 2009 Gold rush may not pan out Sep 15, 2009 Joe PosnanskiVIEWPOINT Sep 15, 2009 Back to earth with the DPJ Sep 15, 2009 MPEG LA and ULDAGE Reach Historic Agreement Sep 15, 2009 Patrick Swayze Hospitalized With Pneumonia Sep 15, 2009 Driving success Sep 14, 2009 Column: Reclaiming civil discourse Sep 14, 2009 Going all-in 74 Bullpups: Prepare to party Sep 13, 2009 Children With Fatter Midsections At Increased Risk For Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds Sep 13, 2009 The Buzz On An Amazing New Mosquito Repellent: Will It Fly? Sep 13, 2009 The Man Who Bailed Out the US and W... Sep 13, 2009 New book examines Pat Tillman's death Sep 12, 2009 Local reps against casinos in Marlborough Sep 11, 2009 Survey Shows At-Risk Men Lacking In Prostate Cancer Knowledge Sep 11, 2009 Making Special Teams Special Again Sep 11, 2009 Seizure Drug Enhances Sleep For Women With Hot Flashes Sep 11, 2009 A second chance for Greg Baroni Sep 11, 2009 arGEN-X Raises EUR9.5 Million to put SIMPLE Antibody(TM) Platform to Work Sep 10, 2009 QIAGEN's New Product Line, QIAsafe(R) DNA Blood, has Been Co-Developed With Biomatrica and is Based on Biomatrica's SampleMatrix(R) Technology Sep 10, 2009 Gen2Media Video Production and Technology to be Showcased During "NFL Opening Kickoff 2009 Presented by EA Sports" On NBC and NFL Network Sep 9, 2009 UN wants new global currency to replace dollar... Sep 9, 2009 Historically innovative Sep 8, 2009 Tosho's Satisfaction With Health Robotics Steers the Japanese Pharmacy Automation Leader to Renew and to Expand its I.V. Automation Strategic Partnership Sep 8, 2009 Context-driven discovery of gene cassettes in mobile integrons using a computational grammar Sep 8, 2009 Romagnoli’s ‘Bicycle Runner’ recalls a time of love and war Sep 6, 2009 Whiting native returns to discuss the latest on breast cancer Sep 6, 2009 Teaching actors to talk the talk Sep 5, 2009
His 31-point second half remains the gold standard for Boston Shootout guard performances. He was a star at Marquette. (Boston Globe)
PAINT THE TOWN PINK: Southcoast Hospitals features digital mammography Oct 1, 2009
For so many years film-based mammograms were the gold standard. But things have changed, she said. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
That is why the LA games are considered the "gold standard" for how to run an Olympics. Surely, Chicago can show the same knowhow. (CBS News)
But they remain the conference's gold standard on the field, even if they were less-than-dominant in a 27-6 win over Washington State. USC's success stopping the run looms large, given Cal's desire to lean on Best. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Waugh said the G-20 proposals move toward the gold standard Canadian model. That may give Canadian lenders an advantage over U.S. and European banks, he said. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
It is the first antiplatelet drug to demonstrate it can reduce cardiovascular (CV) deaths compared to the current gold standard treatment, Plavix (clopidogrel) in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Results of the 18600 patient Phase III PLATO trial comparing the two drugs, were revealed at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona. (FT.com -- Markets)
And now we watch as the Falcons head to Foxborough 2-0 and only a 4 1/2-point underdog against the gold standard of professional football, and we dare to ask: Might they win. And about now, we should take three steps back and try to see the landscape, as opposed, say, to the hair on Michael Turner s chinny-chin-chin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
In 1931, Britain went off the "gold standard" and look what happened to them. In 1933, the U.S. went off the gold standard and look at what happened to our economy ... AFTER ALL THEY ARE ONLY OUT FOR VOTES AND TO LINING UP THEIR OWN POCKETS WITH NO REGARDS FOR THE PEOPLE AT ALL. A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM HAS TO TAKE SHAPE WHICH IT WILL BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY OUT.SO LETS START OFF BY REPLACING THE GOLD STANDARD.. (The Drudge Report)
"Conficker has proven to be the gold standard for botnets. It's rock solid, it's steady and it has mechanisms built in that have made it impossible for us to actually crack," Joffe said. "As of today we have not been able to crack the cryptography behind it in order to disrupt it by authenticating ourselves as the command and control.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
I have used this very column to praise DirecTV for being the Gold Standard that other companies should try reaching for, however now I can no longer make that recommendation. In fact I will admit as I write this I am a little pissed at DirecTV myself. (Multichannel News)
This very successful and well-run state agency should set the gold standard for landlord and tenant behavior and respect for neighborhoods. BOTTOM LINE: AHFC has to respond better to complaints of disruptive behavior in its public housing. (Anchorage Daily News)
Window users can only envy Mac owners, since Apple () sets the gold standard for ease of upgrading. Unlike the limited Easy Transfer, Mac's Migration Assistant is a dream. (BusinessWeek)
Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing essential climate change data to the global market place. Investor CDP represents some 475 institutional investors, with combined assets under management in excess of $55 trillion. (Primezone Releases)
Although intubating the trachea is yet seen as gold standard, this technique is still reserved to experienced healthcare professionals. Compared to bag-valve facemask ventilation, however, the insertion of a laryngeal mask airway offers the opportunity to ventilate the patient effectively and can also be placed easily by lay responders. (BioMed Central)
Economists such as Barry Eichengreen, Jeffrey Sachs and Ben Bernanke have helped us to understand that these anomalies were the result of individual central banks efforts to stay on the gold standard, causing them to keep interest rates relatively high despite economic weakness. To some, this revelation represented a culminating event for economic theory. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Individual case reports of adverse reactions are not sufficient to establish causation, Jacobs said, as the "gold standard" relied on by the scientific community is a controlled clinical trial where two groups of patients with similar features can be accurately evaluated and monitored for reactions to a drug. "I did not find any study that indicated that Zoloft, or [any drug in its class], in a study, increased aggression," Jacobs said, adding that there was "no indication" that discontinuing... (Law.com)
Often read as a political allegory about the move away from the gold standard (you can learn more about that interpretation ), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is more broadly a portrait of a country America promised to be but never became. The book and its sequels offer a recuperative vision, born of intense hopes and disappointments that did not add up in life. (Slate)
Shared Hope International has been particularly effective in combating human trafficking in part because the charity pretty much is the gold standard among nonprofits in this fight. It gets four stars from Charity Navigator s Guide to Intelligent Giving, which is the Web site s top rating for charities that outperform most others in their cause. (Longview Daily News, WA)
SEASON SNAPSHOT After establishing the `Gold Standard' in 2008 with an NCAA National Championship, an ACC Tournament title and a school-record 23 wins and 15 shutouts, the Terps have a tall task ahead to repeat the kind of success they achieved just a year ago ... THE GOLD STANDARD Maryland established several school-records on its way to the national title last season including wins (23) and shutouts (15) in a season as well as a program-best 16-game winning streak. (Umterps.com)
The project, spearheaded by a Johns Hopkins neurologist in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Illinois in Peoria, found that the quick, extremely low-cost exam caught more strokes than the current gold standard of MRI, suggesting that if further research on broader populations confirms these results, physicians may have a way to improve care and avoid the high costs of MRI in some cases. The idea that a bedside exam could outperform a modern neuroimaging test such as MRI is... (Science Daily)
The Patriots are the gold standard of 21st Century football. The Falcons are the team that, having worked in two different centuries, still hasn t achieved consecutive winning seasons. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
In property valuations arms length sales transactions of comparable property proximate to the valuation date are the gold standard. But in these troubled times relevant transactions were scarce. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
A growing number of Montana pre-schools, child care centers and in-home facilities are seeking to be accredited through the private National Association for the Education of Young Children, a kind of "gold standard" for quality programs. The state of Montana is also beginning a voluntary rating program for child care providers. (Montana Standard, MT)
Realized it would be pointless because #1- Miami is the gold standard in college football and while they have been down for 3 years, I had no doubt they would play as well as they did, and, #2- I just can t find myself able to stir up any sort of hate for your program. You re not a giant rival like FSU or VT, two teams we have been playing for a long time, and you are not a team we hate, like the gators. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will televise the Saturday event at the Palace Hotel at 8 p.m. as a special edition of "Chronicle Live," leading into an hourlong program of DeBartolo's induction ceremony called "The Gold Standard" at 9. "I'm really thrilled," DeBartolo said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
According to a Pan Am attorney, the project will be built to a gold standard to protect the water under the parking lot that is slated for paving this week. Railroad VP Cindy Scarano said she is optimistic that the project will comply with aquifer protection standards. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Keynes would have none of it: He saw millions of unemployed workers, their livelihoods and hopes dashed on an adherence to balanced budgets, the gold standard, and unfettered trade. This is the Keynes most of us know. (BusinessWeek)
What's more, it did so with no help from the Fed, which was determined to let the recession take its course, so as to hasten the restoration of the prewar gold standard. Bernanke, in contrast, has been praised for taking bold, innovative measures to tame a supposedly unprecedented economic collapse. (Christian Science Monitor)
The gold standard was one of the causes of the deflation Germany suffered in the early 1930s, for example. You mean that the demise of the Weimar Republic was caused in part by financial factors. (Salon)
You can argue that there s nothing as good as Vuitton in LVMH s portfolio, says Pierre Mallevays of Savigny Partners, who was formerly director of acquisitions at LVMH, but that simply states the fact that LV s business model is the gold standard of luxury brands; no other brand in the world compares to it. The biggest risk to LVMH is Vuitton, argues Ms Flouquet, since it accounts for such a big proportion of profits; the company depends on it, she says. (The Economist)
"I think we regard this as the gold standard test of its kind. We often talk about setting the standard, and that is what we intend to do.". Potent Threat. (BusinessWeek)
"We present the gold standard of care on the show...we have access to leading experts in their fields.". And, because it tapes close to its airdate, "The Doctors" is able to present the latest information available. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
3ality Digital's camera platforms, stereo image processing systems, and 3D image scaling technologies are quickly earning a reputation as the "gold standard" for the emerging medium, and are rapidly being adopted by production companies, studios, broadcasters and consumer electronics manufacturers. To support the growing industry, 3ality Digital launched its immersive "3D IQ" training program to robust demand in April 2009. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
But the war between North and South set off another round of inflationary finance, eventually killing off wartime currencies and prompting another deflation that set the stage for a gold standard that was solid but not perfect. Its flaws banks were permitted fractional reserves and were beginning to rely on regulations to dampen competition created the dynamic that led to the Federal Reserve. (The American Conservative)
Greenebaum and Rose founder Stewart Greenebaum said in a statement the St. John Properties piece of the project will give Maple Lawn the gold standard for R&D/flex space. Most Read Stories. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Recently, the National Down Syndrome Society and the National Down Syndrome Congress announced the selection of a booklet ("Understanding a Prenatal Down Syndrome Diagnosis") as a gold standard packet of information about Down syndrome, fulfilling Skotko's second recommendation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
The gold standard for such devices had traditionally been monitors housed in burdensome backpacks, weighing as much as three kilograms, or about as much as a newborn baby. "This limited us to enthusiastic teenagers, or concerned adults," Chillrud notes. (Scientific American)
I look forward to working with you to make sure that the gold standard of transparency and accountability are the guidelines for all state government negotiations. Rep. (Chelmsford Independent, MA)
Anchorage Daily News. Daylight : 7:29 AM - 8:19 PM. (Anchorage Daily News)
Under the more recent classical gold standard period, from the late 19th century until the Great Depression, gold coins did not circulate but notes on issue were backed by gold held in the banking system ... After World War II the monetary system continued to be based on a modified gold standard. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
But the go-back-and-hit-the-ball-through-the-legs shot was (and is) the gold standard of trick shots. So I must have practiced hitting it 50 times a day. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Tennis)
Japan is not creating "gold standard" trade agreements, nor will it be broadening relations with Asian partners. It certainly won't be able to match China's aggressive trade diplomacy. (Asia Times Online)
In response to market demand, through the cooperative effort of our companies each representing the gold standard in joint licensing, we are bringing new licensing products to market that will benefit the industry and its consumers. . (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Long considered the gold standard in screening for colon and rectal cancer, a new study finds that many colonoscopies only find as little as 60% of cancer cases. Dr. Jon LaPook reports. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
that this was "one of the few occasions where government intervention has had a beneficial effect at relatively minor cost in improving not only the volume of UK car manufacturing, but setting a sort of gold standard for manufacturing technology right through the engineering sector". And industry experts believe that investment, and the improvements it stimulated, saved British manufacturing. (BBC News -- UK)
And in a world where stage time is the gold standard, Wilson grabbed a measure of national celebrity he didn't have before. If it worked for him, others will follow his example, and on it goes. (Longview Daily News, WA)
A reunion of the Bullpups' 1974 West Yosemite League championship squad, still the gold standard to many when measuring football success at HHS, will be held in conjunction with the Oct. 23 game against Tulare Western. That team, in addition to going 10-0 in the regular season under first-year coach Glenn "Duffy" Dufour, produced a pair of NFL players in Jewerl Thomas and Mark Lee, Thomas with the then-Los Angeles Rams and Lee with the Packers. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
The gold standard, when it comes to intervention strategies, has always been whether a child fell into a certain range with their body mass index (calculated using height and weight), he says. These results suggest that waist circumference could provide an additional measurement of risk. (Science Daily)
12, 2009) After searching for more than 50 years, scientists finally have discovered a number of new mosquito repellents that beat DEET, the gold standard for warding off those pesky, sometimes disease-carrying insects. The stuff seems like a dream come true. (Science Daily)
Other factors in the decline of business included, declining building construction; depressed agricultural production, at least partially attributable to adverse weather; and the gold standard and monetary policy. This started to lead to a credit shortage as foreign banks started to pull their funds out of the US. Business and banks began to fail where as many as 15,000 of one and 600 of the other were lost. (Suite101.com)
Boynton calls Krakauer the "gold standard" of New New Journalism because of his commitment to reporting, climbing Everest for "Into Thin Air" and spending five months in Afghanistan for "Where Men Win Glory.". Before writing was lucrative enough to pay the bills, Krakauer was a carpenter. (AZCentral)
"Sen. Kennedy's office is really the gold standard for that service," Eldridge said. The legislators agreed that the governor will likely make more 9C midyear budget cuts later this year. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
For example, surgery -- which remains the gold standard treatment for localized prostate cancer -- has become much less invasive. According to the American Urologic Association, the major benefit of prostatectomy, or prostate removal, is a potential "cancer cure" in patients with localized or early stage cancer. (PR Newswire)
They outperformed the Hokies in a phase that was once the college football gold standard ... The Alabama Crimson Tide has the athletes coupled with the mental capacity to set the new gold standard; the Crimson Standard. (BamaMag.com)
A third study found that gabapentin is as effective in reducing the number of hot flashes as the hormone estrogen, which used to be the gold standard treatment for menopause symptoms. A co-author on the paper, Thomas Guttuso Jr., M.D., is listed as the inventor on a patent owned by the University of Rochester for the use of gabapentin in the treatment of hot flashes. (Science Daily)
He agrees with most experts that the consultancy could have been the gold standard of the government-services sector. And it succeeded to an extent: No one claims BearingPoint s government business led to its demise. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
John de Koning, PhD, Partner at LSP continued: "We are impressed by arGEN-X's SIMPLE Antibody(TM) platform, its strong proprietary position and its ability to efficiently generate gold standard, human antibodies as demonstrated by the Company's lead program. We believe arGEN-X is well positioned to play an important role in tomorrow's human monoclonal antibody market.". Peter Verhaeghe, Chairman of the Board of arGEN-X added: "We are very pleased with this significant equity financing, one of... (PR Newswire)
This panel includes the digene HPV Test, which is regarded as the "gold standard" in testing for high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer. QIAGEN employs more than 3,200 people in over 30 locations worldwide. (PR Newswire)
Through the integration of 3-D imaging, 2-D compositing, editing and proprietary video playback technology developed by Gen2Media subsidiary Media Evolutions - technology widely considered as the industry's gold standard for use in live concert and stage production, Gen2 is tasked with creating digital video imagery that will introduce a stunning, impactful visual component to the Black Eyed Peas' high energy stage performance. Since 2000, Gen2Media's production team has designed, produced and... (Primezone Releases)
The gold standard was not eliminated in 1971 by Nixon, as stated by Evan ... Other nations were, to one degree or another, forced off the gold standard either before or after that time ... And tell the UN to Bank in EURO"S. FRED JOHNSON on September 09, 2009 at 06:49 AM Money Man - No, you are the absolute moron. Nixon ended the gold standard in 71' not the silver standard. Idiots like you SHOULD get your facts straight but you are clearly better shooting off at the mouth than you are at getting... (The Drudge Report)
That coveted stamp of approval is the gold standard for high-performance green buildings. Certifications are more commonly given to newer buildings. (Honolulu Advertiser)
We look forward to an enhanced cooperation with Health Robotics in years to come", stated Yoshihito Omura, General Manager, Tosho Inc. Over the next three to four weeks, we will continue to share the additional steps that Health Robotics has and will undertake in South East Asia, Oceania, China, and Latin America, where we expect that no later than the end of September, the company's global expansion will be culminated. Coupled with this expansion, we expect a gigantic leap in the quality of... (PR Newswire)
972 annotation agreement with an expert gold standard of 300 sequences. In rediscovery experiments, we deleted 789,196 cassette instances over 2030 experiments and correctly relabelled 85. (BioMed Central)
He calls Barbara Ehrenreich s 2001 Nickel and Dimed the gold standard of commercial publishing success involving a labor-related book - and hopes that there is a book in the works that will top it. Livesey on Bronte Margot Livesey kicks off the Celebrity Bookclub at Newtonville Books this week. (Boston Globe)
"Gone are the days when a woman diagnosed with breast cancer underwent a radical mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy or total radiation, Willey noted."The gold standard of taking the whole breast is gone," she stressed. "Now, partial breast removal may be done and even radiation may be targeted to the area most at risk. ""Targeted therapies" are the current buzzwords right now, because there are so many ways to define the tumor and the stages, Willey said."What I want to do is educate women as... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
For anyone working on doing a Boston accent, Jones brings out the gold standard - Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. There s nothing like learning from an actor who was actually raised here. (Boston Globe)
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