Be a Better Way The information that patients receive about the drugs we prescribe for them is in a sorry state. Patients are barraged by direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising in virtually every medium except cell phone ring-tones. In a health care system that rewards quantity over quality, rushed clinical encounters with physicians and pharmacists leave too little time to review drug risks and ...

The rapidly increasing number of potentially novel species, combined with the methodologically laborious polyphasic approach used in bacterial systematics, makes identification and, consequently, the description of novel taxa a highly demanding discipline. The number of new descriptions of about 200 species a year can apparently not be expanded significantly but new isolation procedures and ren...

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