Two cycles of Atosiban in preventing preterm birth in twin pregnancies

Twin gestation contributes significantly to perinatal morbidity and mortality related to high occurrence of preterm birth. We evaluated 202 women consecutively selected with twin pregnancies and threatened preterm labor. 98 women were threatened with a single cycle of Atosiban; 34% of them delivered before 34 weeks. The study group consisted of 104 patients submitted to a second cycle of Atosiban because of regular uterine contractions and or cervical length modifications occurred from 48 hours to 7 days and gestational age was prior to 32 week of gestation (group A). After the second cycle of Atosiban, 49 out of 104 patients received a treatment with a vaginal tablet of lactoferrin (group B). After the second cycle of Atosiban, 84% of patients of group A and 90% of patients of group B delivered after 34 weeks. The overall rate of delivery before 34 weeks in the studies groups was of 16%. In our experience, repeated cycles of Atosiban have shown effectiveness in delaying delivery in twin pregnancies. It seems logical to use an oxytocin receptor antagonist as first line drugs in twin pregnancies because of the increased risk of pulmonary edema

We are against something that doesn't exist. Conversation with Giovanna Costanza Meli

What does the art system mean if you think of the analysis we just formulated? In that world defined by the media, why should we care about an art system? It is the same kind of propagandistic model. The real country, the real situation is different. So the work of the intellectuals I think is to reconnect the "discourse" to the reality. In the non profit field, curators, artists and intellectuals are used to speaking about a way of being out of the system, or against the system, and I also thought to be against something huge. But then I started to consider everything form a different point of view, looking at the reality. So I say there is no art system in Italy, and if we are against this art system, we are against something that doesn't exist. I would say it is sincere to care about the reality

The small Museum of Migrations in Lampedusa

If we consider the museum as an institution, we spontaneously relate it to concepts such as tradition, collection, scientific committee, administration, more or less codified cultural representations, more or less marked cultural policies, dialogue with its context and search for a public. If we refer to the internal debate within contemporary museums, we immediately think of integration and cultural mediation, alongside the debate concerning their public and social function and the educational departments's research. All this plays a big role in the mental image shared by art historians, anthropologists and curators researching hybridization and crossbreeding, and what these notions could mean within the various discourses on identity, on the one end, and self-representation on the other hand. But what is happening in Lampedusa? What have this island and its population to do with cultural and scientific museological debate?The aim of this journey was not to expose ourselves to the famous cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, but to explore – as artists and non-academic researchers – Italy’s contemporary artistic, social and political scene through active witnesses. We started in Rome and ended in Palermo, passing through Florence, Bologna, Lugo, Milan, Viganella, Turin, Rivoli, Lecce, Matera, Bari, Santa Maria di Leuca, Naples and Gibellina