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Treatment

• Review: venepuncture is less painful than heel lance for blood sampling in neonatesCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Rosalie Mainous
• Review: parenting interventions can reduce unintentional injuries in children and increase use of safety practicesCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  M Loretta Secco
• Review: cranberry products may prevent urinary tract infection in women with recurrent infectionsCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Donna Moralejo
• Review: use of pedometers increases physical activity in adultsCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler
• Telling smokers their “lung age” promoted successful smoking cessationCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  George Shuster
• Review: behavioural interventions promote tobacco cessation in users of smokeless tobaccoCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Rachel Regan Boersma
• Review: antibiotics are only slightly more effective than placebo for clinically diagnosed acute rhinosinusitis in adultsCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Ruth Martin Misener
• Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response enhanced CBT gains in chronic painCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Sandra M LeFort
• Review: evidence is lacking on the effectiveness of dietary advice in illness-related malnutritionCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Margaret Wallace
• Spontaneous awakening trials plus spontaneous breathing trials improved weaning from mechanical ventilationCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Kelley Kilpatrick
• Review: prone positioning improved oxygenation on ventilation more than supine positioning in ARDSCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Nicky Hewitt, Tracey Bucknall
• Backfill assisted voiding was better than spontaneous voiding for successful bladder emptying after vaginal surgeryCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Patricia Kelly Rosier
• Review: organised stroke unit care reduces mortality more than other forms of care for inpatientsCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Cydnee Seneviratne
• Review: poor-quality trials suggest that some interventions for family caregivers of patients with stroke improve carer outcomesCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Maureen Markle-Reid
• Telehome monitoring reduced readmissions and improved quality of life in heart failure or anginaCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  David R Thompson
• Honey-impregnated dressings and usual care did not differ for healing venous leg ulcersCommentary (26 June, 2008) Free

  Zena Moore
• Review: evidence for use of systemic antibiotics and topical antiseptics for venous leg ulcers is insufficientCommentary (26 June, 2008)

  Julie Betts