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  1. Treatments for female pattern hair loss
  2. No evidence that medical anti-shock trousers improve survival for people with trauma, and some suggestion they may worsen outcomes, but more trials are needed
  3. Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
  4. Antioxidant supplements for prevention of mortality in healthy participants and patients with various diseases
  5. Glucosamine for osteoarthritis
  6. Combined chiropractic interventions for low-back pain
  7. Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  8. Continuous support for women during childbirth
  9. Physical training for asthma
  10. Interventions for preventing obesity in children
  11. Screening for breast cancer with mammography
  12. Intrapartum antibiotics for known maternal Group B streptococcal colonization
  13. Can training health professionals to ask people if they smoke increase offers of advice and help patients quit?
  14. Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community
  15. Exercise for improving balance in older people
  16. A review of the ways that healthcare professionals can improve the use of suitable medicines for older people
  17. Acupuncture for shoulder pain
  18. Exercise for depression
  19. Human recombinant activated protein C for severe sepsis
  20. Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women
  21. Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma
  22. Immersion in water in labour and birth
  23. Pain management for women in labour – an overview
  24. St. John's wort for treating depression.
  25. Can nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) help people quit smoking
  26. Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections
  27. The effect of caffeine in people with asthma
  28. Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants
  29. Spiritual and religious interventions for adults in the latter stage of a disease
  30. Nebulized hypertonic saline solution for acute bronchiolitis in infants
  31. Diuretics for heart failure in adults
  32. Music therapy for people with autistic spectrum disorder
  33. A comparison of multifocal and monofocal intraocular lens implants used in cataract surgery
  34. Antenatal perineal massage for reducing perineal trauma
  35. Diacerein for osteoarthritis
  36. Zinc for the common cold
  37. Umbilical vein injection for management of retained placenta
  38. Epidurals for pain relief in labour
  39. Some physiotherapy interventions are effective for shoulder pain in some cases.
  40. Multiple risk factor interventions for coronary heart disease
  41. Use of thromboelastography (TEG) or thromboelastometry (ROTEM) analysers versus usual care to monitor transfusion of blood products in surgical patients
  42. Using the combined vaccine for protection of children against measles, mumps and rubella
  43. Discharge planning from hospital to home
  44. Efficacy and safety of trastuzumab in early breast cancer
  45. Decision aids to help people who are facing health treatment or screening decisions
  46. Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm
  47. Thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke
  48. Can pressure ulcers be prevented by using different support surfaces?
  49. Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain
  50. Antibiotic therapy compared to appendectomy in the treatment of acute appendicitis.