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

The Journal of Rheumatology Volume 29 , no . 2 In quest of the holy grail : efficacy versus effectiveness in rheumatoid arthritis .

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

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...

Measuring Carotid Revascularization Quality.

Because US health care pivots from volume-based to valuebased strategies, there is growing emphasis on optimizing quality, safety, and appropriate utilization. Accordingly, to improve, we must be able to measure our performance. In this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Kuehnl et al provide a timely publication, from the German national database, that informs our quest for the...

Quantitative measurement of liver function: the quest for the Holy Grail?

The quantitative measurement of liver function remains a Holy Grail of medicine. The absence of a reliable and readily available function test for the liver is in sharp contrast to organs such as the kidney (1) and lung (2), for which such tests exist and are used in a wide variety of applications including prognostication and determination of the need for solid organ transplantation. It is eas...