AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Cold comfort: after decades of research, the common cold has revealed only some of its mysteries.(Medical Dispatch)
There is, when you look into it, not a lot that makes sense about the common cold. For one thing, there is the name. As cold experts have pointed out, in almost all Indo-European languages one of the words or phrases for the malady plays on the word for low temperature. In Italian, the common cold is raffreddore, from freddo, meaning cold. In Hindi, the word sardi denotes both being made cold and a cold itself. The notion that a chill puts you at risk of catching a cold is ancient and nearly universal. Yet science has found no evidence for it. One of the first studies on the matter was led by Sir Christopher Andrewes, of the Common Cold Research Unit, in Salisbury, ...
- The American Pharmacists Association Introduces Traveler's Guide to the Common...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 16, 2006 700+ words
...and homeopathic cold remedies, such...duration of the common cold when used within...to Outwitting Colds & Flu...research on avoiding colds and flu for my...everyone will get a cold eventually...duration of the common cold is a very important...
- Sitting Next to a Crying Child As Annoying As Getting the Common Cold While...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 16, 2006 700+ words
...such as intranasal zinc cold remedies," says Dr...in the duration of the common cold if used within the first...percent have had one or more colds during the same period...reducing the duration of the common cold is a very important or...
- Nearly Three in Five U.S. Travelers Aged 30 and Older Say Getting the Common...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 12, 2006 700+ words
...using intranasal zinc cold remedies," says Dr...reduce the duration of the common cold if used within the first...percent have had one or more colds during the same period...reducing the duration of the common cold is a very important or...
- The common cold; Scientists find hope, hurdles on road to cure.(LIFE - SCIENCE...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 16, 2004 700+ words
...year to the common cold, according...about 1 billion colds, according...that cause the common cold, they probably...the amount of colds contracted...about three colds a year. "It...and cure the common cold, they often...
- Health: Coping with children common cold.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International March 31, 2009 700+ words
...kids get 3 to 10 colds every year and each cold can last as long...14 days. The common cold accounts for about...children common colds such as seasonal...which are that common cold, may occur at...greatest number of colds occur during the...
- Zinc nasal gel for the treatment of common cold symptoms: A double-blind,...
- Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal Hirt, Michael Nobel, Sion Barron, Ernesto October 1, 2000 700+ words
...than 100 different cold viruses, the most...treatments for the common cold is of concern because...approximately three colds each year, and...work days lost to cold-related illness...the treatment of common cold symptoms has been...
- Improper Hand Washing, a Leading Cause of Infection; Expert Recommends Zinc...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 3, 2003 700+ words
...People with colds will literally hand...everyone will get the common cold at some point...About the Common Cold The National Institutes...are known to cause common cold symptoms. Americans...from one billion colds this year. The...
- The Common Cold.(Pamphlet)
- Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases March 1, 2001 700+ words
...September, the incidence of colds increases slowly for...opening of schools and to cold weather, which prompt...affect the prevalence of colds. The most common cold-causing viruses survive...humidity is low--the colder months of the year...
