Posteromedial quadratus lumborum block versus wound infiltration after caesarean section: A randomised, double-blind, controlled study.

Background: Reducing pain and minimising the use of opioids after caesarean section are crucial to enhancing maternal recovery and promoting mother-newborn interaction. Various techniques have been implemented to improve analgesia. We compared the analgesic efficacy of posteromedial quadratus lumborum block with that of wound infiltration following elective caesarean section.

Therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacogenetics--is this a way towards creative psychopharmacotherapy?

Modern development trends in psychiatry incorporate greater care for patients and above all individualisation of therapeutic approaches. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for phenotyping and genotyping of drug metabolism are possible determinants of improved treatment efficacy, reduced adverse effects of psychotropic drugs, and enhanced treatment compliance. They render possible individual adjustment of psychopharmacological treatment and thus represent a small, but significant piece in the mosaic of creative psychopharmacotherapy.

Attitudes of midwifery students towards teaching breast-self examination.

Background: The purpose of this study was to asses the attitude of undergraduate midwifery students towards teaching other women in methods of breast self-examination (BSE). PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS.: The study was performed at the beginning and at the end of students' study at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Effects of native human leukocyte interferon-alpha and recombinant human interferon-alpha on P3-X63-Ag8.653 mouse myeloma cell growth.

Multiple myeloma (MM) remains largely incurable, although traditional chemotherapy and new compounds have been shown to produce a clinical response. Clinical studies were performed to determine the effectiveness of interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) in MM, which has also recently been shown to function as a survival factor for MM cells. The effects of different doses of native human leukocyte interferon-alpha (nhIFN-alpha), recombinant human interferon-alpha2a (rhIFN-alpha2a) and recombinant human interferon-alpha2b (rhIFN-alpha2b) on in vitro P3-X63-Ag8.