Biomedicine: The new gold standard

Digital coronary angiography: the new gold standard?

Digital coronary angiography: the new gold standard? Few, if any, other areas of imaging require the high spatial, temporal, and contrast resolutions that are needed for coronary arteriography. For two decades 35 mm cine-angiography has fulfilled these requirements and has been regarded as the "gold standard" for the investigation of coronary artery disease; but despite its many advantages cine...

Robotic radical prostatectomy: The new gold standard

OBJECTIVES Open radical prostatectomy (RP) has been the standard and primary treatment for focal prostate cancer. However, in recent years this view has changed, as robot-assisted laparoscopic RP has gained acceptance among urologists. In this review we evaluate the importance and place of robotics in laparoscopic urological surgery, discussing several techniques that are currently being used a...

Can CMR be the new ‘gold standard’ for constrictive pericarditis?

Historically, the cardiac catheterization has been the ‘gold standard’for the evaluation and confirmation of constrictive pericarditis. Noninvasive CMR should have a potential role to be equivalent or even superior given its abiltiy to detect both the anatomic and physiologic impact of an abnormal pericardium. Via RF tissue-tagging, we show that CMR could be a contender for a new non-invasive s...

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Calling on Science: Making “Alternatives” the New Gold Standard

All of life’s great journeys start with a goal in mind! The 2007 NAS report, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century – A Vision and A Strategy, has proposed a clear goal. This report envisions a not-so-distant future where all routine toxicity testing for environmental agents will be conducted in human cells in vitro evaluating perturbations of cellular responses in a suite of toxicity pathway ass...