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Increasing antibiotic resistance numbers force both scientists and politicians to tackle the problem, and preferably without any delay. The application of bacteriophages as precision therapy to treat bacterial infections, phage therapy, has received increasing attention during the last two decades. While it looks like phage therapy is here to stay, there is still a lot to do. Medicine regulatory authorities are working to deliver clear instructions to carry out phage therapy. Physicians need to get more practical experience on treatments with phages. In this opinion article I try to place phage therapy in the context of the health care system and state that the use phages for precision treatments will require a seamless chain of events from the patient to the phage therapy laboratory to allow for the immediate application of phages therapeutically. It is not likely that phages will replace antibiotics, however, they will be valuable in the treatment of infections caused by multidrug resistant bacteria. Antibiotics will nevertheless remain the main treatment for a majority of infections.

Increasing antibiotic resistance numbers force both scientists and politicians to tackle the problem, and preferably without any delay. The application of bacteriophages as precision therapy to treat bacterial infections, phage therapy, has received increasing attention during the last two decades. While it looks like phage therapy is here to stay, there is still a lot to do. Medicine regulatory authorities are working to deliver clear instructions to carry out phage therapy. Physicians need to get more practical experience on treatments with phages. In this opinion article I try to place phage therapy in the context of the health care system and state that the use phages for precision treatments will require a seamless chain of events from the patient to the phage therapy laboratory to allow for the immediate application of phages therapeutically. It is not likely that phages will replace antibiotics, however, they will be valuable in the treatment of infections caused by multidrug resistant bacteria. Antibiotics will nevertheless remain the main treatment for a majority of infections. ; Peer reviewed

'Nothing Can Replace Our Son' is about US casualties in the war in Iraq that began in March 2003. It features parents who have lost children fighting for the US side.

Speculates concerning judicial decision-making to test, at least theoretically, what some of the implications of jurisprudential advances might be. Proposes as the means of making this test a consideration of whether a computer may be so programmed as to replace the judicial function of judges.

Whether society needs protection against the effects of the cannabis plant is a moot point, but generally politicians have depended upon the 'thin blue line' as the bulwark against increased use. For 40 years the author viewed cannabis from within that 'thin blue line' and his choice of identified 'milestones' along the route of cannabis's gradual social acceptance reflect an almost total lack of logical planning.

I. Theoretical Aspects of National Planning -- 1. Planning in the Making -- 2. Conceptions of National Planning: A Tentative Model -- 3. Futures Studies Versus Planning -- 4. Ideologies and Values in National Planning -- 5. Environmental Influences on the Public Sector -- II. Case Studies -- Introductory Notes -- 6. Water Planning: Who Gets the Last Drop? -- 7. Planning in Israel's Public Health Services -- 8. Urban and Regional Planning in Israel -- 9. Fund-Raising: Money is not Enough -- III. Planning and Policymaking in Israel -- 10. National Versus Sub-National Planning in Israel.