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| You Must Decide: Does Life Love You...Or Love You Not? |
09-24-2008 |
| A Cry for Sleep Lack of sleep linked to personal problems in teens |
08-06-2008 |
| Little League: Bad News (Parents) The Thin Line Between Fair and Foul |
05-21-2008 |
| Ask the Experts! Elder Care & Geriatric Medicine |
03-05-2008 |
| Brain Fitness: At Any Age |
02-27-2008 |
| Introverts vs. Extroverts Surviving vs. Thriving at Holiday Time |
12-19-2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Moment: How to be the hypen between Multi and Tasking |
07-11-2007 |
| For Better or Worse Gatherings Can Heal |
05-17-2007 |
| The Grudge: It begins with a hurt and ends with a decision: to carry it or bury it. |
01-31-2007 |
| Some soul & science on GIVE & GET | 12-21-2006 |
| Teen Stress 101 | 11-29-2006 |
| Memory Research & Meditation | 11-01-2006 |
| PICA: When what you crave is not fit for human consumption |
09-27-2006 |
| Girl Bullies: Mean Girls (Revisited) |
09-14-2006 |
| Friendship: Ctrl_Alt_Delete | 08-23-2006 |
| Secrets Keep the Secret, Shed the burden |
05-18-2006 |
| Through a Child's Eyes How Children Cope with Disaster |
10-11-2005 |
| Absorbing the Suffering | 09-17-2005 |
| Togetherness in Separation | 09-02-2005 |
| Balancing Acts The amazing feats we are capable of performing with just a little brain training |
07-26-2005 |
| Antidepressants and Pregnancy | 07-11-2005 |
| Shhh... Meditation 101 First Time? Laugh and Learn |
04-26-2005 |
| The Etiquette of Illness Compassionate Dos and Don'ts For caregivers and loved ones |
03-25-2005 |
| Falling
Deeply in...'Like' Are Anti-Depressants Also Anti-Romantics? |
02-11-2005 |
| The
Intimate Enemy: Violence During Pregnancy |
02-08-2005 |
| The
Little White Lie When it helps... When it hurts |
01-04-2005 |
| 'Tis the Season to be Stressed Putting the 'Jolly' Back |
12-20-2004 |
| Holiday Invasion! How to survive visiting families |
12-16-2004 |
| The Depression Dilemma For Children, Teens, Parents and Doctors |
11-29-2004 |
| Pregnancy Paranoia | 11-08-2004 |
| Teen Anger A Weighty Issue |
05-10-2004 |
| Shedding Tears: Healing Waters |
04-26-2004 |
| Only The Shadow Knows Our dark sides can tell us much about ourselves, if we're brave enough to face them |
03-29-2004 |
| Asperger's Syndrome | 03-18-2004 |
| Autism | 03-15-2004 |
| Shades of "Blue": Postpartum depression |
07-28-2003 |
| When Happily Ever After ... Ends. A Young Woman’s Survival Guide to Sudden Loss Through Death or Divorce - Part III: "How to Avoid Financial Loss" |
04-21-2003 |
| Combat Stress: Each war gives it a new name. And, each war yields better treatment. But, do all wartime memories require a name and a treatment? |
04-10-2003 |
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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.
