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Therapeutics

• Review: exercise training delays death and hospital admission in chronic heart failure (30 September, 2004)
• 6 monthly scheduled follow up of hypertension was equivalent to 3 monthly scheduled follow up (30 September, 2004)
• Review: inhaled long acting β₂ agonists are effective and safe in stable chronic asthma

  (30 September, 2004)
• Doubling the dose of inhaled corticosteroids during asthma deterioration did not improve asthma control (30 September, 2004)
• Review: commonly used pharmacological treatments for bronchiolitis in children do not seem to be effective (30 September, 2004)
• Postexposure prophylaxis with oseltamivir reduced influenza transmission in households (30 September, 2004)
• Cholesterol lowering with simvastatin reduced stroke in patients with, or at risk of, vascular disease (30 September, 2004)
• High dose atorvastatin was superior to standard dose pravastatin in reducing death or major CV events in acute coronary syndrome (30 September, 2004)
• Immediate carotid endarterectomy reduced non-perioperative stroke in severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (30 September, 2004)
• Valacyclovir reduced genital herpes transmission in couples discordant for herpes simplex virus type 2 infection (30 September, 2004)
• CBT added to tapering helped patients with chronic insomnia discontinue benzodiazepine use (30 September, 2004)
• Rofecoxib did not slow progression of dementia in patients with established Alzheimer’s disease (30 September, 2004)
• Strontium ranelate reduced the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (30 September, 2004)
• Review: artesunate added to standard drug treatment reduces treatment failure in malaria (30 September, 2004)