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Therapeutics/Prevention

• Systematic review: There is no good evidence for the effectiveness of commonly used over-the-counter medicine to alleviate acute cough (5 March, 2015)

  An De Sutter
• Randomised controlled trial: Prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy after drug-eluting stent reduces the risk of stent thrombosis and major cardiovascular events but increases the rate of bleeding (5 March, 2015)

  Gérard Helft
• Randomised controlled trial: Up to 4000 mg of paracetamol a day is ineffective for acute low back pain (10 March, 2015)

  Andrew Moore
• Randomised control trial: Using the Watchman device to close the left atrial appendage reduces risk of stroke in atrial fibrillation, compared to using warfarin (18 March, 2015)

  Martin J Swaans, Arash Alipour, Lucas V Boersma
• Randomised controlled trial: Although the evidence is not clear, decreases in prostate cancer mortality in specific subgroups of men may be due to screening (13 March, 2015)

  Dragan Ilic, Philipp Dahm
• Randomised controlled trial and systematic review: Weight-loss diets only work when you follow them (23 March, 2015)

  Arya M Sharma
• Randomised controlled trial: Postfracture pain in children can be adequately managed with ibuprofen (11 March, 2015)

  Kevin B L Lim
• Randomised controlled trial: Nebulised hypertonic saline does not reduce hospital length of stay in acute bronchiolitis (26 March, 2015)

  Todd A Florin
• Randomised controlled trial: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery provides clinically important quality-of-life improvements over medical therapy in patients with ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction (3 April, 2015)

  Denis Bouchard
• Randomised controlled trial: Timing of thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke: the earlier the treatment the better the outcome, irrespective of age or stroke severity (8 April, 2015)

  Svetlana Lorenzano
• Randomised controlled trial: Invasive revascularisation in patients with moderate intermittent claudication provides a significant improvement in quality of life compared with conservative treatment (31 March, 2015)

  Andrew K Kurklinsky
• Randomised controlled trial: Monthly malaria chemoprevention shows potential in an area of very high, perennial malaria transmission (20 April, 2015)

  Matthew Cairns, Patrick G T Walker