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Therapeutics

• Venipuncture was less painful and more efficient than heel lancing for blood tests in newborn infants (1 February, 1999)
• Intensive blood glucose control reduced type 2 diabetes mellitus–related end points (1 February, 1999)
• Metformin reduced diabetes-related end points and all-cause mortality in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes (1 February, 1999)
• Tight blood pressure control reduced diabetes mellitus–related deaths and complications and was cost-effective in type 2 diabetes (1 February, 1999)
• Review: Antibiotics have no effect on diarrhea and increase bacteriologie relapse in salmonella intestinal infection (1 February, 1999)
• Review: Self-management education for adults with asthma improves health outcomes (1 February, 1999)
• Estrogen plus progestin was not effective for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women (1 February, 1999)
• Review: Fecal occult blood test screening reduces colorectal cancer mortality (1 February, 1999)
• The levonorgestrel intrauterine system avoided hysterectomy in women with excessive uterine bleeding (1 February, 1999)
• Review: Albumin does not reduce death in critically ill patients with hypovolemia, burns, or hypoalbuminemia (1 February, 1999)
• Review: Cognitive therapy is beneficial and equivalent to behaviour therapy and antidepressants for mild-to-moderate depression (1 February, 1999)
• Autologous bone-marrow transplantation after intensive chemotherapy was effective for acute myeloid leukaemia (1 February, 1999)
• Enoxaparin reduced venous thromboembolism after elective neurosurgery (1 February, 1999)
• Early outcomes of laparoscopie and tension-free inguinal hernia repair were similar and superior to Shouldice repair (1 February, 1999)