Word: coughs
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...four-goal come-from-behind victory, but that won’t ease the sufferings of the again-thwarted Bulldogs (3-17-1, 2-12-0 ECAC), who twice held the lead in the irst period against heavily favored Harvard (12-5-2, 9-4-1) only to cough it up within 43 seconds on both occasions...
...Calling in Sick Pfizer, makers of Benylin cough remedies, co-launched a range of cell-phone ringtones made to sound like different types of coughing...
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Parents routinely administer a spoonful of cough syrup to a child who can't get to sleep because of a bad cough. The expectation is that the medicine will give the child--and the parents--a silent night. But does it work? When researchers gave a group of children with upper respiratory infections one of two active ingredients in over-the-counter cough syrup or a placebo, they found that the kids taking either of the cough-syrup ingredients had no better improvement in their symptoms than those taking the dummy liquid. In fact, all three groups had fewer symptoms...
...drugs are going to work, patients must actually take them, and doctors find it maddeningly hard to ensure that they do. Many of the medications can have mild side effects, including fatigue, dry cough, and occasional erectile difficulties in men--not surprising, since you're manipulating the body's circulatory hydraulics. When people face a disease that causes no symptoms and a treatment that does, it's no surprise which one they sometimes choose. "You prescribe medication," says Weber, "and within a year, 50% of people quit taking...