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| Ask the Experts! Pediatrics |
12-10-2008 |
| Web of Intrigue: Internet Safety for Teens and Tweens |
10-29-2008 |
| Playnormous! Kid-tested, parent-approved, these online games are free, fun and family -friendly. Best of all, they're clinically proven to teach us how to eat right and get fit. |
10-08-2008 |
| Yuck-ology Lice, worms & other gross-out conditions |
09-04-2008 |
| Hail to the Chief's... Health First of a series on the health histories of American presidents |
08-28-2008 |
| A Cry for Sleep Lack of sleep linked to personal problems in teens |
08-06-2008 |
| School Dazed 12 ways to reset your children's clock (before the first day of school!) |
07-30-2008 |
| Venom: Protect Yourself from Summer Villains |
06-25-2008 |
| Hurricane & Flood: Before and After Handbook |
06-04-2008 |
| Learning to Learn: Early interventions can overcome many learning disabilities |
04-30-2008 |
| Ask the Experts! Elder Care & Geriatric Medicine |
03-05-2008 |
| Brain Fitness: At Any Age |
02-27-2008 |
| Abscessed Teeth: One Painful Reminder |
02-20-2008 |
| 7 Myths of Happily Ever After | 02-13-2008 |
| The Woman's Heart - Part Two | 02-08-2008 |
| Medication Mistakes Parents Make | 12-13-2007 |
| Online Love | 12-05-2007 |
| Smoking 101: What Happens When You Smoke, Puff by Puff? What Happens When You Quit, Breath by Breath? |
11-15-2007 |
| Me and My Shadow | 10-31-2007 |
| Sleeping with the Enemy: Your worst day may be the first day you start saving your life |
10-25-2007 |
| Impulsivity: When you can't curb the urge |
10-17-2007 |
| Understanding Anger, Aggression and Violence | 10-10-2007 |
| Nobody wants me... and I can prove it. How hypersensitive people experience rejection |
10-03-2007 |
| Back by Popular Demand! Top 7 (More) Questions Parents Want the Experts to Answer |
09-27-2007 |
| Part Two: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your 'Tweens & Teens |
09-12-2007 |
| Part One: A parent's guide to having "the talk" with your young children |
09-06-2007 |
| Singin' the West Nile Blues Clinical depression can strike West Nile Virus patients up to one year after infection, new research finds |
08-01-2007 |
| Doctors are from Venus;
Patients are from Mars How to be Heard |
06-06-2007 |
| Practicing Magazine Medicine? Top women’s magazines skimp on health information, new study shows |
05-03-2007 |
| Gut Feeling Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
04-25-2007 |
| Spring....Brake! After a week of non-stop beer bonging and binge drinking, some students will belly up to the Web to sober up at e-CHUG |
03-15-2007 |
| The Woman's Heart: Part Two New heart health guidelines and a trip to the ER proved to one woman that she—and her heart were now being taken seriously |
02-22-2007 |
| The Woman's Heart: Part One It may break the same but it doesn't ache the same |
02-14-2007 |
| Stem Cells 101 The what, why, where, when and how of today’s biggest scientific debate |
02-07-2007 |
| Top 30 Ways To Ruin (& Repair) Your Workout | 01-25-2007 |
| Teen Stress 101 | 11-29-2006 |
| A Few Good Monsters Don't be scared, be grateful. The Gila Monster is helping diabetics control blood sugar and lose weight. |
11-15-2006 |
| 'Spit' for a Cure “No cavities and no breast cancer. See you in six months. Don’t forget to floss.” |
11-08-2006 |
| Memory Research & Meditation | 11-01-2006 |
| Understanding Sudden Death in Teen Athletes | 10-04-2006 |
| PICA: When what you crave is not fit for human consumption |
09-27-2006 |
| Lab Tests 101 | 09-20-2006 |
| 7 Questions Parents Ask Pediatricians | 08-16-2006 |
| Killer Lipstick & Other Make-Up Myths | 06-08-2006 |
| Sideways to Health... Does Red Wine Really Help? |
12-28-2005 |
| "But, it's just a toy" BBs, pellets, potatoes, paint, even air… A gun by any other name is still a gun. |
07-05-2005 |
| Gout: A Royal Pain | 04-18-2005 |
| Party Food Poisoning Protect Yourself and Your Guests |
12-23-2004 |
| Animal Attraction Holiday Pet Guide 2004 - Part II |
12-13-2004 |
| "But...Can He Fetch?" Holiday Pet Guide 2004 - Part I |
12-09-2004 |
| Warning: Fashion Can Be Hazardous To Your Health | 06-24-2004 |
| Bedside Manners: An Old Fashioned Doc Looks Back |
09-12-2003 |
| It's Baa-aaack! Body Clocks Take a Hit |
04-03-2003 |
| Murder Rate Plunges | 03-31-2003 |
| Eight-Legged and Venomous The brown recluse just wants a little respect |
08-08-2002 |
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Zinc no match for common cold
Since 1984, zinc has been studied, and now marketed, as a weapon against the common cold, but the reviews always have been mixed.
Recently, researchers conducted a review of 105 studies to determine if the popular over the counter zinc lozenges, nasal sprays or nasal gels had any clinical effects.
Of the 105 studies, only four met the strict criteria for valid scientific design. Of those four, only one study showed a small positive effect of zinc nasal gel on cold symptoms. The other three showed no benefits from nasal sprays or lozenges.
In fact, some of the zinc nasal sprays have been associated with partial or permanent loss of smell (anosmia).
This cold season, the cheapest and most proven weapon against the common cold is not to catch it at all, by washing your hands frequently and properly, and keeping your hands away from your own eyes, nose and mouth.
