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Patients battling the fever of a cold or flu are often advised to take aspirin, and sometimes to drink hot tea. Is that traditional advice sound? Not according to two British pharmacologists, Anthony Milton and Michael Dascombe of the University of London's School of Pharmacy. Aspirin does reduce high temperature, but caffeine-a stimulant present in tea, coffee and some types of cola drinks-appears to keep body heat up when taken in quantity. Thus the two substances cancel out each other's effects...
...pair made their initial observations on laboratory animals, injecting some with an endotoxin, a bacterial substance that produces fever, and others with an endotoxin-caffeine combination. Those receiving both developed higher fevers than those injected with the endotoxin alone. The researchers then tried treating the animals with an aspirin-caffeine preparation similar to those sold as patent cold remedies. The combination did not reduce temperature at all. A follow-up study with human volunteers confirmed the animal experiments. When 35 students received typhoid vaccinations, which produce a mild infection and fever, those who were given caffeine had higher temperatures than...
Doctors are not yet sure how caffeine raises fever or blocks aspirin's cooling properties. They speculate that caffeine may stimulate release of certain fever-producing hormones. But pending further study, they have some simple advice: fever sufferers should avoid tea, coffee and medications containing caffeine. To wash down aspirin, use water...
...familiar heat of antiwar fever surged sharply but briefly, after President Nixon's decision to escalate the bombing of North Vietnam and mine the country's harbors. Yet peace activity was both slower and less forceful at Harvard than at many other colleges throughout the nation. While many schools were whipped into nearly instantaneous rage following Nixon's March 30 speech, students here failed to mount any serious antiwar actions until a week later when a loose coalition of antiwar groups called a mass campus meeting to plan protests...
...Board in March rumbling that Phase II rules are stacked against workers, it seemed that the U.S. might be in for a new period of labor turmoil. The exact opposite has happened; 1972 so far shapes up as the year that the nation's strike fever was broken. In May, work stoppages reached a 30-year low for the month. During the first six months, production time lost to strikes was only five seconds out of each potential man-hour of work, or little more than half the rate a year ago. In only four full years since World...