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Therapeutics

• Self management of long term oral anticoagulation was as effective as specialist anticoagulation clinic management (1 March, 2001)
• Amiodarone maintained sinus rhythm better than sotalol or placebo in atrial fibrillation, but adverse effects were more frequent (1 March, 2001)
• Review: various interventions increase smoking cessation rates (1 March, 2001)
• Review: intensive blood pressure control and drugs reduce morbidity and mortality in hypertension and diabetes mellitus (1 March, 2001)
• Review: inhaled corticosteroids alone appear to be as effective as oral corticosteroids after emergency department discharge for acute asthma (1 March, 2001)
• Zinc acetate lozenges reduced the duration and severity of symptoms of the common cold (1 March, 2001)
• Review: prokinetics and histamine-2 receptor antagonists improve symptom scores in non-ulcer dyspepsia (1 March, 2001)
• Helicobacter pylori testing plus eradication was as effective and safe as prompt endoscopy for dyspepsia (1 March, 2001)
• Review: antibiotics reduce the duration and severity of travellers' diarrhoea (1 March, 2001)
• Zinc supplements increased growth more in stunted infants than in non-stunted infants (1 March, 2001)
• Review: anticonvulsant drugs relieve chronic but not acute pain (1 March, 2001)
• Multilayer bandaging plus compression hosiery was better than hosiery alone for unilateral lymphedema of a limb (1 March, 2001)
• Review: radiotherapy reduces death from and recurrence of breast cancer but increases death from other causes (1 March, 2001)
• Orlistat with diet was effective and safe for weight loss and coronary risk reduction in obesity (1 March, 2001)
• Alendronate increased bone mineral density and decreased vertebral fractures in men with osteoporosis (1 March, 2001)