A new research by experts at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) School of Medicine (WUSM) suggests that the susceptibility babies display to developing common colds may be determined by innate difference in immunity. These variations can be detected at birth.
In other words, a simple test can detect wheth... |
18 May 2012
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Vitamin C and echinacea are two of the substances most widely referred to when people talk about drugs against the common cold. The two are not effective in any way, as demonstrated in studies, and now experts turned their attention to the third chemical on the list, namely zinc.Over the past few decades, a large num... |
17 May 2011
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A new research carried out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health concluded that an over-the-counter herbal treatment based on Echinacea, that is believed to have medicinal benefits, actually has a minimum impact in relieving the common cold.They conducted a randomized trial invol... |
21 December 2010
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A group of researchers from the United Kingdom announce a major discovery in the fight against common cold, that could see the disease finally eradicated once and for all. The scientists demonstrated that the pathogen can be attacked and destroyed by the immune system after it has penetrated the cellular nucleus, whi... |
2 November 2010
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Doctors warn people to avoid whispering when they are cold and already have swollen vocal cords, as doing this would most likely make things worse. The lower-than-usual voice that generally characterizes those who have the flu or suffer from the common cold is caused by inflammation in the cords or of the surrounding... |
17 March 2009
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Even if this piece of news comes after most people already got the flu or the common cold, which is caused by the Human Rhinovirus (HRV), scientists announced that they might have just finished sequencing the genome of the most common viral strain. This will, over the years, provide researchers with enough informatio... |
14 February 2009
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Many parents find themselves in a strange situation when they wake up in the morning and find their child has a runny nose, or that he or she sneezes or coughs. While these might seem like the symptoms of the common cold or the flu, some of them send their kids to school that day nonetheless, as they say that missing... |
10 February 2009
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Scientists in the United States and Japan managed to discover the genetic complex that is thought to be responsible for the 50 million deaths registered during the largest and deadliest pandemic in the world, the 1918 influenza pandemic. The complex, which contains three genes, allows the virus to survive and replica... |
30 December 2008
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Newborn babies are at increased risk of developing influenza, as compared to other children, because of the fact that their immune system is still weak in their first weeks of life. The flu accounts for many deaths among infants who contracted this disease from family members, who didn't get their flu shots... |
27 October 2008
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The human rhinovirus (HRV) is the main culprit behind the common cold and the flu. These epidemics affect millions of people yearly and a drug to completely eradicate them has yet to be devised, because of their high mutagen potential, meaning that the virus changes its structure yearly. As a result, the only way to ... |
27 October 2008
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Recent scientific studies showed that the human rhinovirus (HRV) is not the determining cause of sneezes, runny noses and other cold-related symptoms. In fact, the virus triggers an immune response throughout the body, which causes these reactions. After HRV sets in, it starts rewriting some genes that regulate the p... |
24 October 2008
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