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(MedPage Today) -- Intramuscular midazolam proved significantly better at ending seizures outside the hospital environment than intravenous lorazepam, a randomized trial showed.

FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- Postoperative administration of amiodarone after lung cancer resection significantly reduced the risk of atrial fibrillation in a randomized trial.

(MedPage Today) -- Occluding the proximal carotid artery with a balloon may confer better protection against cerebral embolization than a filter device during carotid stenting, a randomized trial found.

(MedPage Today) -- Proton pump inhibitor treatment doesn't ease asthma for children without gastroesophageal reflux symptoms, even for those with a positive pH test, a randomized trial determined.

(MedPage Today) -- Hip-fracture patients with an increased cardiovascular risk gained no survival or functional benefits from liberal use of blood transfusions, results of a large randomized trial showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Intermittent inhaled corticosteroids may be as good as daily dosing at preventing asthma attacks in toddlers with wheezing episodes, a randomized trial determined.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- An investigational hepatitis C drug was safe and effective in a small randomized trial, a researcher said here.

(MedPage Today) -- Adding extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery to optimal medical therapy did not prevent strokes in patients with internal carotid artery occlusion and hemodynamic cerebral ischemia, a halted randomized trial showed.

(MedPage Today) -- A 2-cm surgical margin is adequate for patients whose primary cutaneous melanoma is thicker than 2 mm, a randomized trial suggested.

(MedPage Today) -- During pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, continuously maintaining brain perfusion provides no advantage over periods of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest of up to 20 minutes, a randomized trial showed.