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Treatment

• An educational-behavioural intervention for parents of preterm infants reduced parental stress in the NICU and infant length of stay (23 March, 2007)
• Adding swaddling to behaviour modification in infant care did not reduce excessive crying in healthy infants <13 weeks of age at randomisation (23 March, 2007)
• Vaccinating infants with a wide long needle achieved comparable immune response and reduced local reactions compared with a narrow short needle (23 March, 2007)
• Environmental and dietary interventions in the first 5 years of life did not reduce the risk of asthma and allergic disease (23 March, 2007)
• Review: children <2 years of age with bilateral acute otitis media and children with otorrhoea benefit most from antibiotics (23 March, 2007)
• A cognitive behavioural parenting intervention reduced conduct problems in children and improved parenting skill and confidence (23 March, 2007)
• A life skills intervention improved psychosocial adjustment in children with cystic fibrosis (23 March, 2007)
• Review: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs reduce menstrual pain and heavy bleeding associated with an intrauterine device (23 March, 2007)
• Review: inhaled insulin provides better glycaemic control than oral hypoglycaemic agents but not better than subcutaneous insulin (23 March, 2007)
• A hospital based violence prevention intervention reduced hospital recidivism for violent injury and arrests for violent crimes (23 March, 2007)
• Brief cognitive behaviour therapy improved insight and reduced negative symptoms and readmissions in schizophrenia (23 March, 2007)
• Addition of peak flow monitoring to symptom monitoring did not improve healthcare visits, quality of life, or lung function in older adults with moderate-to-severe asthma (23 March, 2007)
• Calcium reduced loss of bone mineral density but did not prevent fractures in healthy postmenopausal women (23 March, 2007)
• Review: support surfaces, nutritional supplements, and topical agents help prevent pressure ulcers (23 March, 2007)
• Moderate and high elastic compression hosiery did not differ statistically for recurrence of venous ulceration at 5 years (23 March, 2007)
• Nutritional supplementation after surgery for hip fracture reduced fracture related complications in otherwise healthy patients (23 March, 2007)
• Postoperative ibuprofen increased bleeding complications in hospital and did not improve pain or physical function at 6–12 months after total hip replacement (23 March, 2007)