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Therapeutics

• Carvedilol reduced mortality and hospital admission in severe chronic heart failure, regardless of pretreatment systolic BP (28 January, 2005)
• Review: hormone therapy may reduce the risk of death in younger but not older postmenopausal women (28 January, 2005) Free
• Topically applied imiquimod 5% cream cleared actinic keratosis lesions (28 January, 2005)
• Review: fluoxetine, orlistat, and sibutramine modestly reduce weight in type 2 diabetes (28 January, 2005)
• Review: orlistat and sibutramine are modestly effective for weight loss at 1 year (28 January, 2005)
• Ginger was equivalent to pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) for reducing nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (28 January, 2005)
• Long term donepezil did not delay institutionalisation or progression to disability in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (28 January, 2005)
• Review: anticonvulsants are better than placebo for reducing the frequency of migraine attacks (28 January, 2005)
• Review: sedative hypnotic agents reduce mortality and duration of delirium in the alcohol withdrawal syndrome (28 January, 2005)
• Smoking reduction with nicotine replacement and motivational advice reduced smoking in people unmotivated to quit (28 January, 2005)
• Review: clonidine is more effective than placebo for long term smoking cessation, but has side effects (28 January, 2005)
• Review: corticosteroids do not reduce hospital length of stay or respiratory distress in infantile acute viral bronchiolitis (28 January, 2005)
• Review: data are lacking on the effect of bed rest in women with singleton pregnancies who are at high risk of preterm birth (28 January, 2005)
• Below knee elastic compression stockings reduced development of the post-thrombotic syndrome in proximal deep venous thrombosis (28 January, 2005)
• Review: intra-articular corticosteroid injections are better than placebo for improving symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (28 January, 2005)