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The article focuses on various medical research articles published in various periodicals. It includes information on randomized clinical trials probing the efficacy of asthma treatments compared with real world trials, osteoporosis related fracture preventive effects of bisphosphonates in older women and a clinical trial of radical prostatectomy for men with early prostate cancer. It mentions a study which reveals that structured and supervised exercise programmes help reducing glycated hemoglobin concentration in the blood thus enabling control of type 2 diabetes. Information on animal experimentation of erythropoietin as treatment for myocardial infarction is also presented.