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Therapeutics

• Anti-androgen treatment immediately after surgery for prostate cancer improved survival (1 July, 2000)
• Review: providing recordings or summaries of consultations may help patients with cancer (1 July, 2000)
• Review: ipratropium bromide with β-agonists improves pulmonary function and reduces admissions to hospital in acute asthma (1 July, 2000)
• Review: oral Haemophilus influenzae vaccination reduces the number and severity of recurrent bronchitis episodes

  (1 July, 2000)
• Oral montelukast was better than inhaled salmeterol for reducing exercise induced bronchoconstriction in adults with asthma (1 July, 2000)
• High dose lisinopril was more effective than low dose for reducing combined mortality and cardiovascular events in congestive heart failure (1 July, 2000)
• Review: high dose and moderate dose oral anticoagulants reduce events in coronary artery disease but increase major bleeding and are no more effective than aspirin (1 July, 2000)
• Low volume, high frequency cows' milk feedings sped recovery from diarrhoea in infants (1 July, 2000)
• Lactobacillus GG reduced diarrhoea incidence in children treated with antibiotics

  (1 July, 2000)
• Review: newer and older antidepressants have similar efficacy and total discontinuation rates but different side effects (1 July, 2000)
• Review: antidepressive agents improve symptoms and reduce pain in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (1 July, 2000)
• Hypericum extract was better than placebo and equivalent to imipramine for moderate depression

  (1 July, 2000)
• Review: inadequate data exist on prevention and treatment strategies for foot ulcer in diabetes mellitus (1 July, 2000)
• Review: antimicrobial prophylaxis reduces asymptomatic bacteriuria in patients with neurogenic bladder (1 July, 2000)
• Alendronate reduced days of bed rest and limited activity in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and existing fractures (1 July, 2000)
• Local injection, naproxen, and simple analgesia led to similar 1 year rates of symptom relief in lateral epicondylitis (1 July, 2000)
• Review: injection treatment is not better than placebo for relieving pain in benign chronic low back pain (1 July, 2000)
• Pacifiers have greater analgesic effect than sweet solutions during venipuncture in full term newborns (1 July, 2000)
• Review: the extended tip spatula is more effective than the Ayre's spatula for detecting karyosis in cervical smears (1 July, 2000)