Dr Breslin and his colleagues want to find out how genes influence human perception, particularly the senses of smell and taste and those (warmth, cold, pain, tingle, itch and so on) that result from stimulation of the skin.

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For years, Amy Baxter, a physician and pain researcher, looked for ways to use cold to relieve children's pain from vaccination shots.

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With help from her husband Louis, she made the connection: Combining vibration and cold might be enough to ease the pain of a shot.

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For current pain, you may find relief from over-the-counter pain medicines or using a cold pack (such as an ice pack or a bag of frozen vegetables wrapped in a thin towel) applied periodically to your chest.

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But the ground felt damp and cold under his knees and a whiff of sulfurous air stung his lungs and the cold sun playing on his skin seemed to stir the cigarette burns to pain, and the pain brought home to him that what had happened, and what was about to happen, were no dream.

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Nonprescription decongestants and pain relievers offer some symptom relief, but they won't prevent a cold or shorten its duration, and most have some side effects.

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The pain and anger she portrayed as she forced Onegin out of her life stopped me cold.

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They stopped selling tobacco products in 1996, and were the first national retailer to voluntarily decide to place all cough, cold and allergy products containing Pseudoephedrine (PSE) behind the pharmacy counter (which is good for mankind but a pain for me since I am an allergy sufferer, but I support it of course).

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