The drug was originally a common-cold remedy in Russia.
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But antivirus drugs, aimed at viral, rather than bacterial, invaders--HIV, herpes, hepatitis, flu, the common cold--have been harder to come by because viruses are harder to outwit and tame.
There are still question about doctors giving antibiotics to patients with viral infections like the common cold - antibiotics do nothing against viruses.
That may explain why offers like 99-cent hamburgers and 0% financing on cars--which appeal strictly to cold common sense--sometimes backfire.
"While HSV-1 in adults can cause the common cold sore, HSV-1 infection in newborns is very serious, " a department statement says.
Mr. DUNCAN: If I were to re-label tuberculosis and the common cold, would the public's perception of them change?
Add in the various over-the-counter remedies for flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, hay fever and the common cold, and the average American might seem to be a pill-popping hypochondriac.
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The first patient in the study, a 46-year-old woman, took a common cold remedy for two days on top of her medication for migraine, depression and asthma.
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Before Produits du Sud began, southern Malians tapped the gum-producing trees only for traditional medicines to treat the common cold, sore eyes, or a stomach ache.
Do Democrats in the White House and on Capitol Hill really want to be seen as the party that - out of an ideological opposition to national anti-missile systems that is a throwback to utterly irrelevant Cold War security paradigms - fails to provide for the common defense?
Many of the treatments we see on the shelves of modern-day pharmacists were developed in the wake of studies carried out by the Common Cold Unit, a research institute near Salisbury, Wiltshire, which operated from 1946 to 1989.
In an e-mail exchange, I noted that higher-level Scientologists are supposed to be free of neuroses and allergies, and resistant to the common cold.
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