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Therapeutics

• Review: Ultrasonography and induction but not breast stimulation benefit post-term pregnancy (1 December, 1997)
• Antenatal thyrotropin-releasing hormone was associated with developmental delay in infants at 1 year (1 December, 1997)
• Review: Stroke units reduce death, dependency, and institutionalized care (1 December, 1997)
• Aspirin improved outcome of acute stroke at 6 months but heparin did not (1 December, 1997)
• Intensive insulin regimen reduced long-term mortality after MI in diabetes mellitus (1 December, 1997)
• Ramipril reduced long-term mortality after MI (1 December, 1997)
• Selegiline or α-tocopherol slowed the progression of Alzheimer disease (1 December, 1997)
• Review: Addition of multiple-dose anticholinergics to β₂-agonists improves lung function in children with severe asthma

  (1 December, 1997)
• Perioperative normothermia reduced morbid cardiac events and ventricular tachycardia after noncardiac surgery (1 December, 1997)
• Review: Portal vein infusion of 5-fluorouracil provides modest improvement in 5-year survival for colorectal cancer (1 December, 1997)
• Radiotherapy before surgery improved local recurrence and survival in rectal cancer (1 December, 1997)
• Radiotherapy after curative surgery for rectal cancer offered no additional benefit (1 December, 1997)
• Multifiex open-loop anterior chamber intraocular lens was equivalent to aphakic spectacles (1 December, 1997)
• Review: Clozapine reduces relapse and symptoms compared with typical neuroleptic drugs in schizophrenia (1 December, 1997)
• Brief advice reduced drinking in nondependent problem drinkers (1 December, 1997)
• Review: Migraine frequency and severity guide symptomatic and prophylactic therapy (1 December, 1997)