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Therapeutics

• Review: Corticosteroids reduce relapse rate, β-agonist use, and hospitalisation rate in acute asthma exacerbation after initial assessment (1 February, 1998)
• Review: Statins prevent stroke, especially in patients with coronary heart disease (1 February, 1998)
• Review: Benzodiazepines are more effective than neuroleptics in reducing delirium and seizures in alcohol withdrawal (1 February, 1998)
• Review: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are effective for mixed chronic pain (1 February, 1998)
• Zinc supplementation reduced diarrhoea in young, poor Guatemalan children (1 February, 1998)
• Review: Antibiotics provide modest benefit for acute otitis media (1 February, 1998)
• Didanosine alone or zidovudine plus didanosine was more effective thari zidovudine alon for children with HIV infection (1 February, 1998)
• Oral aciclovir shortened duration of symptoms in herpetic gingivostomatitis (1 February, 1998)
• Injection cured synovial shoulder complaints and manipulation cured shoulder-girdle complaints (1 February, 1998)
• Early amniotomy increased the rate of fetal heart decelerations (1 February, 1998)
• Deferred treatment of cervical abnormalities resulted in poor follow-up and delayed treatment of serious disease (1 February, 1998)
• Review: Prophylactic antifungal treatment decreases systemic fungal infection but not mortality in cancer complicated by neutropenia (1 February, 1998)