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Therapeutics

• Review: Antidepressants improve depression in adults with physical illnesses (1 August, 1999)
• Teaching patients to recognise early symptoms of relapse reduced manic relapses in bipolar disorder (1 August, 1999)
• Intensive therapy delayed microvascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria (1 August, 1999)
• Bedtime insulin plus metformin was effective and did not cause weight gain in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (1 August, 1999)
• Extended anticoagulation prevented recurrence after a first episode of idiopathic venous thromboembolism (1 August, 1999)
• Captopril was not more effective than conventional treatment in hypertension and led to an increase in stroke (1 August, 1999)
• Sildenafil improved erections and increased successful sexual intercourse in diabetic men with erectile dysfunction (1 August, 1999)
• Review: Most obesity treatment methods are ineffective over the long term (1 August, 1999)
• A multicomponent programme increased physical function and decreased hospital days in older adults with chronic disease (1 August, 1999)
• Hospital-at-home care was at least as effective, safe, and acceptable as hospitalizaron for older adults (1 August, 1999)
• A home-based intervention reduced out-of-hospital deaths and hospitalizations in CHF (1 August, 1999)
• Superovulation and intrauterine insemination were most effective for infertility (1 August, 1999)
• Postmenopausal hormone therapy decreased vasomotor symptoms (1 August, 1999)
• Corticosteroid injections were superior to physiotherapy for painful stiff shoulder (1 August, 1999)
• Intermittent treatment with ranitidine or omeprazole for 1 year was effective for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (1 August, 1999)
• Use of insecticide for fly control reduced the incidence of childhood diarrhoea in rural Pakistan (1 August, 1999)
• Review: Antibiotics do not lead to general improvement in upper respiratory tract infections (1 August, 1999)
• Review: 6- and 12-month courses of isoniazid prevent active tuberculosis in HIV-negative persons (1 August, 1999)
• Restrictive and liberal blood transfusion strategies had similar mortality rates in critically ill adults (1 August, 1999)
• Hyperbaric oxygen did not reduce persistent neurologic sequelae of carbon monoxide poisoning (1 August, 1999)