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Therapeutics

• Review: the only effect for surgery plus antiobiotics in vesicoureteric reflux is fewer febrile urinary tract infections (16 April, 2004)
• Angioplasty at an invasive treatment centre reduced mortality compared with first contact thrombolysis (16 April, 2004) Free
• Ximelagatran was non-inferior to warfarin in preventing stroke and systemic embolism in atrial fibrillation (16 April, 2004)
• Candesartan reduced mortality and hospital admissions in chronic heart failure (16 April, 2004)
• Sertraline reduced the severity of patients’ depressive symptoms in major depressive disorder (16 April, 2004)
• Oral iron therapy reduced unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women with serum ferritin concentrations ⩽50 μg/l (16 April, 2004)
• Review: adjuvant corticosteroid therapy reduces death, hearing loss, and neurological sequelae in bacterial meningitis (16 April, 2004)
• Cognitive stimulation therapy improved cognition and quality of life in dementia (16 April, 2004)
• Suprascapular nerve block reduced chronic shoulder pain and disability in degenerative disease or rheumatoid arthritis (16 April, 2004)
• Lumbar fusion did not differ from cognitive therapy plus exercise for reducing disability and pain in chronic low back pain (16 April, 2004)
• Oestrogen plus progestogen did not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women (16 April, 2004)
• Short course nevirapine was better than zidovudine for reducing the risk of mother to child transmission of HIV-1 infection (16 April, 2004)
• Educational interventions improved some quality of life outcomes in prostate cancer (16 April, 2004)