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Therapeutics

• Telephone care was more effective than standard care for smoking cessation in daily smokers (29 September, 2006)
• Combined budesonide and formoterol for maintenance and relief provided better asthma control than budesonide for maintenance and terbutaline for relief (29 September, 2006)
• Addition of salmeterol to usual asthma pharmacotherapy may increase respiratory related deaths or life threatening experiences (29 September, 2006)
• Review: vaccines prevent influenza and influenza-like illness in healthy children >2 years of age (29 September, 2006)
• Review: antiviral agents reduce the risk of influenza in healthy adults and alleviate symptoms faster than placebo (29 September, 2006)
• Delivery of 100%, 40%, and blow-by humidity did not differ for change in croup scores in children with moderate croup (29 September, 2006)
• Clopidogrel plus aspirin did not differ from aspirin alone for reducing MI, stroke, and CV death in high risk atherothrombosis (29 September, 2006)
• Review: ACE inhibitors delay microalbuminuria in diabetes without nephropathy and reduce mortality in diabetic nephropathy (29 September, 2006) Free
• Review: the renoprotective effects of ACE inhibitors and ARBs independent of blood pressure control are uncertain (29 September, 2006)
• Laparoscopic surgery was better than an intensive non-surgical intervention for weight loss in mild to moderate obesity (29 September, 2006)
• Review: behaviour therapy is effective for insomnia (29 September, 2006)
• Black cohosh and St John’s wort reduced climacteric and depressive symptoms (29 September, 2006)
• Calcium did not prevent fractures in elderly women (29 September, 2006)
• Review: sparse evidence supports lifestyle modifications for reducing symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (29 September, 2006)
• Review: topical quinolones are better than systemic antibiotics for chronic suppurative otitis media at up to 2 weeks (29 September, 2006)