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Therapeutics

• Systematic review with meta-analysis: Treating mild gestational diabetes yields benefits with little or no evidence of harms (26 November, 2013)

  Donald Coustan
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Statins do not improve cardiovascular outcomes for dialysis patients (12 December, 2013)

  Ali Olyaei
• Randomised controlled trial: Sofosbuvir with ribavirin is safe and effective in hepatitis C genotype 1 with unfavourable pretreatment characteristics (12 December, 2013)

  McKenzie C Ferguson
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Advanced wound care therapies in non-healing lower extremity ulcers: high expectations, low evidence (17 December, 2013)

  Katherine Leslie Baquerizo Nole, Robert S Kirsner
• Randomised controlled trial: Study suggests varenicline safe and effective among adults with stable depression (30 January, 2014)

  Paul M Cinciripini, Maher Karam-Hage
• Systematic review: The effectiveness of pressure ulcer risk assessment instruments and associated intervention protocols remains uncertain (17 January, 2014)

  Madhuri Reddy, Sudeep S Gill
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Meta-analysis finds benefit for dual antiplatelet therapy but limitations preclude changing standard mono antiplatelet therapy approach for acute non-cardioembolic ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (6 January, 2014)

  Wilbert S Aronow
• Randomised controlled trial: The addition of nebulised magnesium to the standard asthma therapy for children with severe symptoms results in small improvements in asthma severity scores (17 January, 2014)

  Joseph J Zorc
• Randomised controlled trial: Percutaneous coronary intervention of culprit and non-culprit coronary arteries in acute ST-elevation MI may improve outcomes (22 January, 2014)

  Stuart H Chen, Anjan K Chakrabarti
• Randomised clinical trial: Novel anticoagulants in patients with mechanical heart valves (22 January, 2014)

  Ralph A H Stewart
• Randomised controlled trial: Neither anti-inflammatory nor antibiotic treatment significantly shortens duration of cough in acute bronchitis compared with placebo (22 January, 2014)

  John R Hurst, Aarash D Saleh
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Long-term antibiotic therapy reduces exacerbation frequency in patients with COPD but it remains unclear which patients to target (7 February, 2014)

  James P Allinson, Gavin C Donaldson
• Randomised controlled trial: Study shows insufficient decrease in wound complications with sutured versus stapled skin closure in gastrointestinal operations (20 December, 2013)

  Hong Vo, Cindy Kin
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Cholinesterase inhibitors should not be prescribed for mild cognitive impairment (30 January, 2014)

  Tom C Russ
• Randomised controlled trial: Neither ibuprofen nor steam improves symptom control compared with paracetamol in patients with acute respiratory tract infections in primary care (22 January, 2014)

  Philipp Schuetz
• Observational study: Metformin associated with better cardiovascular outcomes than other glycaemic therapies (6 January, 2014)

  Zachary T Bloomgarden