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Therapeutics/Prevention

• Systematic review with meta analysis: Adjunctive corticosteroids improve the need for mechanical ventilation and shorten hospital duration in patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (23 December, 2015)

  Mirjam Christ-Crain, Willem Jan W Bos
• Randomised controlled trial: A modified Valsalva manoeuvre results in greater termination of supraventricular tachycardia than standard Valsalva manoeuvre (4 January, 2016)

  Gavin D Smith
• Systematic review: Ibuprofen for the treatment of TTH (7 January, 2016)

  Roy G Beran
• Systematic review: Best evidence supports topical corticosteroids and routine saline irrigations for medical treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis (8 January, 2016)

  John S Schneider
• Randomised controlled trial: Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) versus atovaquone-proguanil: do not choose between but, rather, combine them (12 January, 2016)

  Eli Schwartz, Tamar Lachish
• Randomised controlled trial: Autoinflation reduces middle ear effusion in children with otitis media with effusion (29 January, 2016)

  Armin Bidarian-Moniri
• Randomised controlled trial: Low-molecular-weight heparin for the treatment of acute venous thromboembolism in patients with active cancer (19 January, 2016)

  Marcello Di Nisio, Anne W S Rutjes
• Randomised control trial:

  Non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile to prevent recurrent C. difficile infection

  (13 January, 2016)

  Daniel M Musher, Hoonmo Koo
• Observational study: Prescribing of metformin based on estimated GFR rather than serum creatinine expands the eligible population and is likely safe (19 January, 2016)

  Ronald L Castelino, Gregory Peterson
• Randomised controlled trial: Four sessions of spinal manipulation, simple exercises and education are not better than usual care for patients with acute low back pain (27 January, 2016)

  Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa
• Randomised controlled trial: Aerobic exercise training reduces bronchial hyper-responsiveness and serum pro-inflammatory cytokines in patients with asthma (21 January, 2016)

  Stefano R del Giacco, Vanessa Garcia-Larsen
• Randomized controlled trial: Ultrasound-guided corticosteroid injections for adhesive capsulitis more effective than placebo (21 January, 2016)

  Constance Marie Lebrun
• Randomised controlled trial: Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil reduces the incidence of invasive breast cancer in a randomised controlled trial (7 January, 2016)

  Georg Hoffmann, Lukas Schwingshackl
• Randomised controlled trial: Complete revascularisation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel disease: contemporary data in context (4 January, 2016)

  Amerjeet S Banning, Anthony H Gershlick
• Randomized controlled trial: Maternal postpartum high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation (6400 IU/day) or conventional infant vitamin D3 supplementation (400 IU/day) lead to similar vitamin D status of healthy exclusively/fully breastfeeding infants by 7 months of age (12 January, 2016)

  Daniel E Roth