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- Minocycline for acne vulgaris: efficacy and safety
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Aug-2012
Minocycline is an oral antibiotic used for acne vulgaris. Its use has lessened due to safety concerns (including potentially irreversible pigmentation), a relatively high cost, and no evidence of any greater benefit than other acne treatments. A modified-
- Mirror therapy for improving motor function after stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Jul-2018
Mirror therapy is used to improve motor function after stroke. During mirror therapy, a mirror is placed in the person's midsagittal plane, thus reflecting movements of the non-paretic side as if it were the affected side.
- Mirtazapine adjunct for people with schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-May-2018
Many individuals who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia experience a range of distressing and debilitating symptoms. These can include positive symptoms (such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech), cognitive symptoms (such as trouble focusing
- Mirtazapine for fibromyalgia in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Aug-2018
Fibromyalgia is a clinically defined chronic condition of unknown etiology characterised by chronic widespread pain, sleep disturbance, cognitive dysfunction, and fatigue. Many patients report high disability levels and poor quality of life. Drug therapy
- Mirtazapine versus other antidepressive agents for depression
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Nov-2011
Mirtazapine has a unique mechanism of antidepressive action and is one of the commonly used antidepressants in clinical practice.
- Miscellaneous treatments for antipsychotic‐induced tardive dyskinesia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Mar-2018
Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) medication is used extensively to treat people with chronic mental illnesses. Its use, however, is associated with adverse effects, including movement disorders such as tardive dyskinesia (TD) - a problem often seen as repetiti
- Misoprostol for induction of labour to terminate pregnancy in the second or third trimester for women with a fetal anomaly or after intrauterine fetal death
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Apr-2010
A woman may need to give birth prior to the spontaneous onset of labour in situations where the fetus has died in utero (also called a stillbirth), or for the termination of pregnancy where the fetus, if born alive would not survive or would have a perman
- Mistletoe therapy in oncology
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Apr-2008
Mistletoe extracts are commonly used in cancer patients. It is claimed that they improve survival and quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients.
- Mitomycin C versus 5‐Fluorouracil for wound healing in glaucoma surgery
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Nov-2015
Raised intraocular pressure is a risk factor for glaucoma. One treatment option is glaucoma drainage surgery (trabeculectomy). Antimetabolites are used during surgery to reduce postoperative scarring during wound healing. Two agents in common use are mito
- Mitoxantrone for multiple sclerosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Oct-2013
Mitoxantrone (MX) has been shown to be moderately effective in reducing the clinical outcome measures of disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.
- Mixed exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-May-2019
Exercise training is commonly recommended for individuals with fibromyalgia. This review is one of a series of reviews about exercise training for fibromyalgia that will replace the review titled "Exercise for treating fibromyalgia syndrome", which was fi
- Mobile bearing vs fixed bearing prostheses for posterior cruciate retaining total knee arthroplasty for postoperative functional status in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Feb-2015
It is unclear whether there are differences in benefits and harms between mobile and fixed prostheses for total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The previous Cochrane review published in 2004 included two articles. Many more trials have been performed since then;
- Mobile clinics for women's and children's health
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Aug-2016
The accessibility of health services is an important factor that affects the health outcomes of populations. A mobile clinic provides a wide range of services but in most countries the main focus is on health services for women and children. It is anticip
- Mobile phone messaging for communicating results of medical investigations
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Jun-2012
Mobile phone messaging, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS), has rapidly grown into a mode of communication with a wide range of applications, including communicating the results from medical investigations to patients
- Mobile phone messaging for facilitating self-management of long-term illnesses
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Long-term illnesses affect a significant proportion of the population in developed and developing countries. Mobile phone messaging applications, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS), may present convenient, cost-effect
- Mobile phone messaging for preventive health care
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Preventive health care promotes health and prevents disease or injuries by addressing factors that lead to the onset of a disease, and by detecting latent conditions to reduce or halt their progression. Many risk factors for costly and disabling condition
- Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Dec-2013
This review is an update of the original Cochrane review published in July 2012. Missed appointments are a major cause of inefficiency in healthcare delivery with substantial monetary costs for the health system, leading to delays in diagnosis and appropr
- Mobile phone text messaging and app‐based interventions for smoking cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Oct-2019
Mobile phone-based smoking cessation support (mCessation) offers the opportunity to provide behavioural support to those who cannot or do not want face-to-face support. In addition, mCessation can be automated and therefore provided affordably even in res
- Mobile phone text messaging for promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV infection
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Apr-2012
More than 34 million people are presently living with HIV infection. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can help these people to live longer, healthier lives, but adherence to ART can be difficult. Mobile phone text-messaging has the potential to help promote a
- Mobile phone text messaging to improve medication adherence in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Apr-2017
Worldwide at least 100 million people are thought to have prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD). This population has a five times greater chance of suffering a recurrent cardiovascular event than people without known CVD. Secondary CVD prevention is defi
