From Expressing Human Milk to Breastfeeding-An Essential Element in the Journey to Motherhood of Mothers of Prematurely Born Infants.

Background: Lactation and breastfeeding present an extraordinary challenge for mothers of prematurely born infants.

Purpose: To explore the significance of and the circumstances that affect lactation for mothers of premature infants.

Methods: A qualitative exploratory study based on single, in-depth, semistructured interviews with 16 purposefully sampled mothers of premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Supporting families on their journey towards a normal everyday life - facilitating partnership in an early discharge program for families with premature infants.

Purpose: Several Danish neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) offer the possibility of an early discharge program (EDP) for families with premature infants, when the infant reaches the gestational age ≥ 34 weeks and a weight ≥ 1,500 g. The purpose of this study is to explore how the partnership with these families can be facilitated by the nurse based on the principles of the framework of family centered care (FCC).

Design And Methods: The study was conducted as an ethnographic inquiry inspired by Spradley and based on participant observation of 12 contacts between nurse and family, one informal and three formal interviews with nurses in the EDP-unit of a Danish NICU.

Rallying the Troops: How Sharing Knowledge With Grandparents Supports the Family of the Preterm Infant in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Research concludes that there is a need for educational programs for grandmothers, as well as networking opportunities; educational programs for other extended family members have long been sought by parents, relatives, and nurses in neonatal intensive care unit.

Purpose: To describe the effect of having premature infants' extended families participating in family-centered care (FCC) groups in the neonatal intensive care unit. An intervention based on dialogue, including topics as own reactions, general knowledge about the premature infants, parenthood, and how the extended families can support the new families during hospitalization and after discharge.

Dried chicory root modifies the activity and expression of porcine hepatic CYP3A but not 2C--effect of in vitro and in vivo exposure.

Hepatic cytochrome P450 expression and activity are dependent on many factors, including dietary ingredients. In the present study, we investigated the in vivo and in vitro effect of chicory root on hepatic CYP3A and 2C in male pigs. Chicory feeding increased the expression of CYP3A29 mRNA but not CYP2C33.

Preloading potential of retroviral vectors is packaging cell clone dependent and centrifugation onto CH-296 ensures highest transduction efficiency.

Retroviral vector-mediated gene transfer has been used successfully in clinical gene therapy. Cells of the hematopoietic lineages, however, remain difficult to transduce, although precoating of culture vessels with the fibronectin fragment CH-296 may improve transduction efficiency. Alternatively, low-speed centrifugation of vector-containing supernatant onto culture vessels may improve transduction efficiency in the absence of CH-296 preloading.

Drug-eluting versus bare metal stents in patients with st-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: eight-month follow-up in the Drug Elution and Distal Protection in Acute Myocardial Infarction (DEDICATION) trial.

Background: Implantation of drug-eluting stents (DES) limits the rate of coronary restenosis in most patients with coronary artery disease, but data are scarce with regard to their use in patients with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction and in connection with distal protection of the microvascular perfusion during primary percutaneous coronary intervention.

Methods And Results: We randomly assigned 626 patients referred within 12 hours from symptom onset of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction to have a DES or a bare metal stent implanted in the infarct-related lesion with or without distal protection during primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Quantitative coronary angiography was performed during the index treatment and 8 months later.

Occupational asthma due to freeze-dried raspberry.

Objective: To investigate the possibility that inhalation of raspberry powder at work can cause occupational asthma.

Methods: We report the case of a 35-year-old, nonsmoking woman who complained of hay fever symptoms, wheezing, and shortness of breath two or three times a month exclusively in association with coating chewing gum with raspberry powder. Prick test extracts with the five types of fruit powder were produced.

Treatment of myofascial trigger-points with ultrasound combined with massage and exercise--a randomised controlled trial.

The effect of treatment with ultrasound, massage and exercises on myofascial trigger-points (MTrP) in the neck and shoulder was assessed in a randomised controlled trial. The outcome measures were pain at rest and on daily function (Visual Analogue Scale, VAS), analgesic usage, global preference and index of MTrP. Long-term effect for treatment and control groups was assessed after 6 months using a questionnaire.