The current gold standard of treatment is Schering-Plough's Rebetron, on the market for three years.
Patients who took Femara for five years had 19% fewer breast cancer recurrences than those who took Tamoxifen, the current gold standard.
CBT, which is the current gold standard in psychotherapy has been used to treat everything from anxiety and depression to eating disorders, sleep disorders, and phobias.
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You mention in your article a minimum commodity bull market of 14 years, an average of 18, with the current gold bull market in its 13th year.
The current gold bull market is just 10 years old.
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Given the current gold rush to offer mobile payment services, promises like these seem likely to attract at least some developers, particularly since competing services remain far from the developer recruitment phase.
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But if you have analyzed a dozen or a couple dozen bull markets, I am much less inclined to think you have a valid argument, and that our current gold run could easily fall below the low end of the range.
If you can name the current curling gold medallist, or find a footballer working the till at your local supermarket, I may be converted to your perspective.
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The latest trial does not provide a comparison to the current "gold standard, " but "researchers are planning to study combinations of the pill and camptosar as well, " said Hoff.
Others who are neutral or see prices trading around current levels said gold is in a holding pattern for time being and needs time to digest the current rally.
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Several market watchers pointed out this week that gold priced in euros set a new record high this week, and given the current environment for gold, prices may rise further.
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However, this is all old news, and the current price of gold has accounted for these uncertainties.
The current chart of gold futures shows that in 2011, gold prices did not always adhere to the typical seasonal pattern.
Participants who see weaker prices said the current rally in gold has gotten ahead of itself and is due for a corrective pullback.
Meader said in the current market structure gold needs to have a continuous supply of price-supportive news and if something occurs, like the recent rebound in the U.S. dollar, then investors will head for the exits.
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Unlike with a futures investment, which is based on the current value of gold, the downside to options is that the investor must pay a premium to the underlying value of the gold to own the option.
Nomura analysts listed a few signs that might signal the end of the current weakness of gold including the metal not being correlated with the euro, prices rising during Asian trading hours and inflows into exchange-traded gold funds.
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Even with the high current price of gold, the underlying fundamentals of U.S. and European debt and still expansionary monetary policies in the major industrialized nations, inflation in emerging markets and low real interest rates, gold should stay in demand, they said.
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It does not take a genius to infer that the current rally in gold, and silver, including ETFs such as GLD, SLV, GDX and GDXJ and producers such as Silver Wheaton is primarily the result of QE3 aided by statements of Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank.
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Edel Tully, precious metals strategist at UBS, said while speculative buying and ETF inflows have supported gold to current levels, she is watching physical demand, which generally has been lagging with gold prices near records in most emerging market currencies.
No one in this group was recommending gold at current levels as protection.
He also sees improved prospects for mining shares, even with gold around current prices, since mining companies collectively are profitable.
So, the current momentum trade in gold can persist for some time.
The reason I ask is if you told me you had analyzed 1000 bull markets, I would feel a little more inclined to believe you that the current 13-year gold run could have a couple more years to go.
Now compare and contrast that situation with real U.S. rates since 2002, back when gold began its current multi-year bull market.
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But the direction of real US interest rates in fact turned higher in September 2011, the month that gold hit its current all-time dollar-price high.
Goldcorp offered a similar explanation, but added that the figure does not include new project capital since the new metric is meant to reflect the full cost of gold production from current operations.
If gold stays at its current levels, expect to see cost-of-living indexes hit increases of 5% or more.
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