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Therapeutics

• Antihypertensive drugs decrease mortality, coronary events, and stroke in elderly persons (1 June, 1996)
• Tissue plasminogen activator improved clinical outcome after acute ischemic stroke (1 June, 1996)
• Low-molecular-weight heparin was effective in reducing poor outcome at 6 months in ischemic stroke (1 June, 1996)
• Streptokinase led to higher 10-day and 6-month case fatality rates in acute stroke (1 June, 1996)
• Quadruple therapy eradicated H. pylori-associated peptic ulcer disease better than dual therapy

  (1 June, 1996)
• Triple therapy eradicated H. pylori infection better than dual therapy

  (1 June, 1996)
• Multiple insulin injection therapy delayed microvascular complications in NIDDM (1 June, 1996)
• Home visiting programmes reduce childhood injury (1 June, 1996)
• Pertussis-toxoid vaccine was effective and safe (1 June, 1996)
• Intensive diabetes therapy did not affect neuropsychological functioning (1 June, 1996)
• Postprandial blood glucose monitoring improved glycaemic control and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes (1 June, 1996)
• Cisplatin-based chemotherapy has a small survival benefit in locally advanced and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (1 June, 1996)
• Falsified information did not change the conclusions of NSABP B-06 supporting lumpectomy plus radiation therapy for breast cancer (1 June, 1996)
• Different local therapies for early breast cancer do not affect overall survival (1 June, 1996)
• Shouldice hernia repair had a lower recurrence rate than Bassini or Cooper ligament (McVay) repair (1 June, 1996)
• Subcutaneous heparin plus pneumatic compression stockings prevented pulmonary embolism after cardiac surgery (1 June, 1996)
• Family intervention reduces relapse rates, rehospitalisation, and costs and increases compliance with medication in schizophrenia (1 June, 1996)