'A war of a different kind': local municipalities' experiences in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel-a qualitative study.

Objectives: In Israel, in 2020, 57/257 local municipalities were part of the Healthy Cities Network (HCN). HCN municipalities have a strong political commitment to health promotion and reducing health inequalities. This research aimed to (1) explore local municipalities' management of the pandemic and (2) assess whether belonging to the HCN impacted this management.

The Ethical Work of Weight Loss Surgery: Creating Reflexive, Effortless, and Assertive Moral Subjects.

While higher-weight bodies have been radically medicalized in modern Western discourse, they are also culturally conceived as a moral project. In clinical settings aimed at transforming the body, the consultation sessions between bariatric professionals and patients reveal nuanced moral deliberations. I suggest that bariatric surgery becomes a site of a "moral breakdown," where professionals direct patients to morally recuperate not only through technologies of the self, such as intensive bodywork and diets, but through "moral laboratories," which invite moments of experimentation in everyday life.

'We Don't Want You to Diet': Bariatric professionals' boundary work and negotiation of pleasure and control.

Although patients who undergo weight-loss surgery (WLS/bariatric surgery) must follow severe eating restrictions in a manner similar to that of dieting, professionals strive to demarcate distinctions between the approaches and methods of WLS and diet. Drawing from ethnographic research, this study focuses on the content and interpretative dimensions of professionals' boundary work as well as its meaning and implications for patients. The post-surgical body is revealed as a site of dispute.

Targeting pulmonary metastases of renal cell carcinoma by inhalation of interleukin-2.

Introduction: Pulmonary metastases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are associated with poor prognosis. Inhalation therapy with interleukin-2 (IL-2) is thus an appealing method for palliation. This multicenter study summarizes the national experience of IL-2 inhalation in patients with lung metastases of RCC.