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Treatment

• Review: continuous caregiver support during labour has beneficial maternal and infant outcomes (1 October, 2002)
• Review: group based parenting programmes improve short term mental health in infants and toddlers (1 October, 2002)
• An interactive monitoring device reduced asthma symptoms and functional limitations in inner city children with asthma (1 October, 2002)
• Review: oral antifungal drugs promote cure of fungal infections of the foot (1 October, 2002)
• A lifestyle intervention or metformin prevented or delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes in people at risk (1 October, 2002)
• Review: pentoxifylline with standard compression treatment improves healing of venous leg ulcers (1 October, 2002)
• Mild hypothermia improved neurological outcome and reduced mortality after cardiac arrest because of ventricular fibrillation (1 October, 2002)
• Losartan reduced stroke and new onset diabetes more than atenolol in essential hypertension with signs of left ventricular hypertrophy (1 October, 2002)
• Review: psychoeducational interventions reduce depressive symptoms in cancer (1 October, 2002)
• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions improve food intake in cancer related anorexia and cachexia (1 October, 2002)
• Review: NSAIDs and adjuvant treatments such as hypnosis can help to reduce cancer related pain (1 October, 2002)
• Review: intensive multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation reduces pain and improves function in chronic low back pain (1 October, 2002)
• Review: early supported discharge may reduce length of hospital stay in patients with acute stroke, but does not reduce death (1 October, 2002)
• Review: home visiting with multidimensional assessment and multiple visits reduces nursing home admissions in low risk elderly people (1 October, 2002)