The elusive goal of liver support--quest for the Holy Grail.

Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Not a “Holy Grail” but a Cup at Least Half; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

In this commentary, we argue for the implementation of a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax as a tool to help address the global obesity and diabetes epidemics. Consumption of SSBs has increased exponentially over the last several decades, a trend that has been an important contributor to the obesity and diabetes epidemics. Prior evidence demonstrates that a SSB tax will likely decrease SSB con...

Infrastructure Privatization and Liberalization in Africa: The Quest for the Holy Grail or Coup de Grace?

How to Set up an Effective Food Tax?; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

Whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. Excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

Emphysema's Holy Grail, The Quest for Endobronchial Lung Volume Reduction

Copyright: © 2016 Maloney JD, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation: Maloney JD, Macke RA (2016) Emphysema's Holy Grail, The Quest for Endobronchial Lung Volume Reduction. Chron Obstr...

To Seek the Holy Grail of Cardiac Progenitor Cells: An Opera in Four Acts.

Discoveries in cardiovascular stem cell biology, myocyte regeneration, and cell transplantation have enormous clinical potentials, yet the field is embroiled in amusing controversies. The existence of cardiac myocyte progenitor cells (CPCs) in the adult heart, let alone the identity of the genuine CPCs, has been debated and so has the relevance of the primary candidate, namely the resident card...