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...common colds. There are just too many kinds of cold viruses to make that a practical approach, which leaves us treating our colds after they have already started. But here's the rub. Researchers know that most of the symptoms we associate with getting a cold--the runny nose, the congested sinuses--are caused not by the cold virus but by the body's attempts to clear the virus. It turns out that our body's immune system automatically tries several strategies to counter the virus--some more effective than others. Most of the suffering can be traced back...
Gwaltney's favorite combo is a curious mix of high-and low-tech treatments: a quick squirt into the nose of the biotech drug interferon, followed by two over-the-counter pills--an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) and a so-called first-generation antihistamine like chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton). The interferon primes the immune system to unleash its antiviral defenses while the ibuprofen and the chlorpheniramine keep the inflammatory processes under control...
...inquisitive nose appears first, followed by the rest of Milo bounding through the door that biological anthropologist Brian Hare has opened to his office. Canine sidekick Milo, very much at home in Hare’s office, stretches out on the floor. He’s there not just for companionship but as a professional muse as well. Hare recently published a study on dog cognition that was lauded in CNN and openly mocked by Susan Orlean (of Orchid Thief fame) in The New Yorker...
...slew of lackluster sides, including Scottish second division Berwick Rangers. Which is why Gazza has ended up in a training camp in southern Guangdong province, where he will practice for a couple of weeks before heading north to Lanzhou, a city so dirty that when you blow your nose the resulting mess is black. No one expected him to land here with the lowly Gansu Agricultural Land Reclamation Flying Horses, a team that dwells in the basement of China's second division and makes its home in a city that has been named the most polluted on earth. Even today...
After a kid in “Stuart” is punched in the nose, “he can’t understand…that someone should hit him for no reason, that things happen in the city for no reason, and blood can spring from nowhere...