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Treatment

• Early labour assessment improved several intrapartum outcomes (1 January, 1999)
• Venipuncture was less painful and more efficient than heel lance for blood testing in newborns (1 January, 1999)
• Review: some behavioural interventions, drugs, and dietary changes reduce infantile colic (1 January, 1999)
• Daily zinc supplements reduced the incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory infections in children in India (1 January, 1999)
• Zinc gluconate lozenges were not effective for treating the common cold in children and adolescents (1 January, 1999)
• Sexually risky behaviour in adolescents was reduced by a safer sex, condom based intervention (1 January, 1999)
• Skills training reduced sexual risk behaviours in homeless men with mental illness (1 January, 1999)
• Early discharge after surgery for breast cancer was safe and well received by patients (1 January, 1999)
• Obese binge eating women had no weight loss with diet or non-diet therapies (1 January, 1999)
• Review: dietary advice leads to a modest reduction in blood cholesterol concentration (1 January, 1999)
• Review: dynamic exercise increases aerobic capacity and muscle strength in rheumatoid arthritis (1 January, 1999)
• Integration of services for elderly people reduced costs and use of health services (1 January, 1999)
• Nurse led secondary prevention clinics improved health and decreased hospital admissions in patients with coronary heart disease (1 January, 1999)