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...Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. "You need to block these inflammatory processes too." Intriguingly, Gwaltney, who has studied the common cold for more than 40 years, has shown that although it's easy to become infected with a cold virus, about 25% of those who get infected suffer few if any symptoms. For whatever reason, their bodies do not go overboard fending off a viral attack. That suggests to him that you ought to be able to stop the virus and damp down the immune system without causing any major side effects and that any cure has to consist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Come We Can't Cure The Cold? | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Finally, there's an even bigger hurdle to consider. Let's suppose that researchers discover some sort of safe and effective cure for the common cold. Chances are you would have to get a doctor's prescription for it. When you consider that Americans suffer about 1 billion colds a year, the resulting demand could overwhelm the health-care system--which is why most cold experts believe that any cure will have to be safe enough to be sold over the counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Come We Can't Cure The Cold? | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Aristide said that poverty has prevented Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, from effectively combating the spread of AIDS. Currently, 300,000 Haitians suffer from the disease, and 60 percent of the population outside the capitol of Port au Prince lacks access to health care...

Author: By Eden B. Mcdowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Haitian First Lady Calls for Health Funds | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...subcontinental drift: he is an under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything really dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clueless in Kathmandu | 3/9/2003 | See Source »

Vietnamese, sources. Along with limited access to historical images, Thuy’s films suffer from low budget and poor equipment, like many other films made in Vietnam...

Author: By Zhenzhen Lu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Series Explores Vietnamese Experiences | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

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