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Therapeutics

• Fluoxetine decreased depressive symptoms in children and adolescents with nonpsychotic major depressive disorder (1 August, 1998)
• Prophylactic chest physiotherapy reduced pulmonary complications after major abdominal surgery (1 August, 1998)
• Finasteride reduced symptoms and need for surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are effective and safe for pain (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Advice to stay active is effective for acute low-back pain but bed rest is not (1 August, 1998)
• Continuing to engage in normal activities after neck-sprain injury led to fewer symptoms than did immobilisation and sick leave (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Heparin reduces central venous and pulmonary artery catheter clots (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Amiodarone reduces mortality after MI and for congestive heart failure (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Amiodarone reduces all-cause mortality in patients at risk for sudden cardiac death (1 August, 1998)
• Warfarin plus aspirin prevented ischemic heart disease in high-risk men (1 August, 1998)
• Review: HMGcoA reductase inhibitors reduce stroke, CHD, and all-cause mortality (1 August, 1998)
• Omeprazole maintained remission from ulcers better than misoprostol (1 August, 1998)
• Omeprazole healed ulcers and maintained remission better than ranitide (1 August, 1998)
• Treatment after first seizure did not increase seizure remission periods in patients with a first tonic-clonic seizure (1 August, 1998)
• Alendronate reduced new fractures in postmenopausal women who had low bone-mineral density and existing vertebral fractures (1 August, 1998)
• Combining nebulised ipratropium and albuterol improved FEV₁ but did not improve symptoms or quality of life in COPD

  (1 August, 1998)
• Review: Limited asthma education reduces emergency department visits but does not improve patient outcomes (1 August, 1998)
• A home-based intervention reduced the frequency of hospital readmissions and out-of-hospital deaths after discharge (1 August, 1998)