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The antipsychotic efficacy of tiaspirone, a new atypical antipsychotic agent, was compared to standard neuroleptics, in a single-blind cross-over study. Nine actively psychotic schizophrenic patients entered the study and 6 completed it. Significant overall improvement, on BPRS and CGI ratings, occurred by week 4, on b…

Transfusion of young red blood cells (YRBC) with prolonged survival should result in increased intervals between transfusions and, therefore, decreased transfusion-associated iron loading. A prospective clinical trial comparing YRBC transfusions prepared by apheresis versus washed or frozen red cell transfusions was pe…

The results of a multicentered randomised clinical trial are reported of bed rest and of a physiotherapy and education programme for patients who presented in family practice with an acute episode of low back pain. No beneficial effect of either treatment was observed on several clinical outcome measures, including str…

Some surgeons drain the gallbladder bed routinely, some selectively and some not at all. We aimed to clarify this confusion by entering 155 consecutive patients undergoing emergency and elective cholecystectomy without exploration of the common bile duct into a random control clinical trial. In 78 patients a 3 mm sucti…

A single blind, controlled trial was carried out to assess the anti-inflammatory effects of 10 mg dexamethasone given pre- and post-operatively and also ultrasound therapy in patients following the removal of impacted lower third molars. Facial swelling and trismus were significantly reduced in both the dexamethasone-…

Thirty-nine adult out-patients with dyspepsia and endoscopically proven gastritis and/or duodenitis without ulcer, completed a double-blind, placebo controlled, 8-week clinical trial of either Acidrine (twenty-one patients) or placebo (eighteen patients), at a daily dosage of 2 tablets t.i.d. Treatment with Acidrine re…

In a controlled clinical trial patients with acute femoral neck fractures were allocated into two groups of treatment. One group (14 patients) had a Moore hemiarthroplasty cemented with methyl methacrylate, and the other (15 patients) a noncemented prosthesis. Bone scanning with 99m-Tc-MDP was performed 6 weeks, 3 mont…

A clinical trial of bacampicillin was carried out in 20 patients. The antibiotic was found to be effective in acute lobar pneumonia, pyogenic meningitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, cellulitis, furunculosis, and pyomyositis caused by such ampicillin-sensitive organisms as Neisser…

Epikeratophakia is a newly developed, investigational form of refractive corneal surgery for the correction of aphakic vision. The procedure involves the removal of the corneal epithelium from the recipient eye and the suturing of a prelathed lamellar donor corneal graft onto the surface of the recipient cornea. We ini…

Tear secretion and lysozyme tear content were measured in 30 patients with Sjögren's syndrome after treatment with oral bromhexine, 32 mg/day. In 21 patients (70%) there was a marked increase in tear secretion and in lysozyme content. In patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) good results in clarifying the…

A study was carried out using 616 participants in a randomized clinical trial at the Harvard MRFIT (Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial) Clinical Center, to test if there were differences in the psychological dimensions of anxiety, depression, and functional heart symptoms in groups given different levels of treatm…

The therapeutic efficacy of two newly developed anti-depressants lofepramine and mianserin was compared in a double-blind clinical trial in 30 depressed inpatients. During the treatment period of 4 weeks the depressive symptoms assessed by the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression decreased in both groups. In this trial…

Prompted by previously results of systemic steroid treatment of symptoms of prolapsed lumbar disc, which appeared to be promising, dexamethasone phosphate was tested in a controlled, double-blind clinical study. 52 patients were included in the study: 25 received dexamethasone phosphate, 24 received placebo and 3 patie…

A controlled clinical trial is in progress to assess the value of hyperbaric oxygen and radiotherapy in the management of head and neck cancer. An established dose-fractionation schedule in hyperbaric oxygen is being compared with a widely used conventional schedule in air. Survival and local recurrence-free rates are…

A double-blind comparative clinical trial of doxycycline (200 mg on the first day followed by 100 mg daily for a total of 7 days) and ampicillin (250 mg 4 times daily for 7 days) was performed in 44 patients with acute or chonic sinusitis. Significantly superior results were observed with doxycycline; 90% of the patien…

The new benzodiazepine bromazepam (Ro 5-3350, Lexotan) was compared with diazepam in a double-blind, crossover trial on 30 patients with prolonged anxiety symptoms. Each drug was given for 3 weeks in a dose of 5 mg t.d.s. Bromazepam proved to be statistically significantly superior to diazepam when evaluated through pa…

A clinical trial was carried out with furapyrimidone in treating 51 patients with B. malayi, 159 with W. bancrofti and eight with D. perstans using different dosage schedules. Two hundred and fifty-seven cases of Malayan and bancroftian filariasis were treated with hetrazan for comparison. The results based on the micr…

A clinical trial was conducted with Alice/R-75 strain live attenuated intranasal influenza A/B vaccine. With double blind control 88 adult volunteers were administered 2 doses of Alice/R-75 vaccine, 93 volunteers received one dose of Alice/R-75 vaccine and one dose placebo solution and 94 subjects were administered 2 d…