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Treatment

• Review: antibiotics are effective for acute purulent rhinitis but are associated with increased gastrointestinal side effects (10 January, 2007)
• Immediate or delayed prescribing of antibiotics reduced duration of symptoms in acute infective conjunctivitis (10 January, 2007)
• Review: exercise improves glycaemic control and reduces plasma triglycerides and visceral adipose tissue in type 2 diabetes (10 January, 2007)
• Review: regular exercise improves quality of life and physical fitness in women with breast cancer (10 January, 2007)
• Review: various interventions prevent or reduce oral mucositis in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy (10 January, 2007)
• Review: sparse good quality evidence supports the use of alternative therapies for menopausal symptoms (10 January, 2007)
• Review: sparse evidence supports non-pharmacological interventions for preventing wandering in people with dementia (10 January, 2007)
• Review: a low protein diet delays end stage renal disease or death in chronic kidney disease (10 January, 2007)
• Review: evidence from ⩽2 low quality studies suggests no difference in surgical site infection with or without preoperative hair removal; depilatory cream and clipping are better than shaving (10 January, 2007)
• Review: double gloving during surgery prevents perforations of the inner glove, but its effect on infection is unknown (10 January, 2007)
• Oral decontamination with chlorhexidine reduced ventilator associated pneumonia in patients needing mechanical ventilation for ⩾48 hours (10 January, 2007) Free
• Paraffin ointment or mupirocin ointment did not differ from no ointment under moist occlusive dressings on non-contaminated surgical wounds for wound infections (10 January, 2007)
• Review: insufficient evidence exists for any one dressing type (used beneath compression) for venous leg ulcer healing (10 January, 2007)
• Similar proportions of patients developed pressure ulcers on alternating pressure overlays and alternating pressure mattresses (10 January, 2007)