Common Cold

Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria

Cold agglutinin disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Affecting over 8,500 people in the UK, Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK's most common life-threatening inherited diseases. Around half of the CF population can expect to live over 38 year...

Smell and Taste Abnormalities

Smell and taste are intricately linked - as demonstrated by a bad cold, where the sense of smell is lost, but also the taste of foods is much diminished. Both are gradually lost with aging, but ther...

Foot Doctor Offers Tips For How Your Feet Can Look, Feel and Smell Better

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the weather warms, Epsom salt can help your feet feel better, look better, even smell better, according to Dr. Jeffrey Bowman, an aw...

Fun Beauty Activities with Epsom Salt Can Help Parents and Kids Bond, Create Memories

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As children grow older, parents should find fun ways to spend time together that make their kids feel pampered, teach them how to take care of them...

'The Doctor Of The Future' Says Many Americans Need More Magnesium

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a nutrient that experts say helps your body produce its main source of energy and impacts at least 300 enzyme systems. It can also help treat...

Chicken soup: Can it cure a cold?

There's no cure for the common cold. But if you're . . .

Mexico City tries to get salt shakers off tables

(AP)—Salt and lime with tequila. Salt with your iced "michelada" beer. Salt and chili on fruit and even candy. Mexicans love salt, so much so that some estimates show them eating nearly three times...

Open Season on Salt: What the Science on Hypertension Really Shows

The latest news reports about salt are enough to make a parent ponder a household ban on pizza and cold cuts. A study published last week in Pediatrics found that children eat, on average, 3.4 gra...

Hidden salt in restaurant meals

Consensus Action on Salt and Heath (Cash) has carried out a survey of 664 restaurant meals and found 50% had high salt levels.Their research revealed 347 meals had over 2.4g of salt per portion, whic...

Tate & Lyle launches SODA-LO™ Salt Microspheres globally

(FoodMinds LLC) Tate & Lyle, the global ingredients and food solutions provider, announces the global launch of a ground breaking, new salt reduction ingredient, SODA-LO Salt Microspheres, that tastes...

Towards a synthetic view of potato cold and salt stress response by transcriptomic and proteomic analyses.

Potato can suffer from several abiotic stresses such as cold temperature, high soil salinity, lack of water or heavy metal exposure, to name a few. They are known to affect plant growth as well as pro...

Post-operative nausea and vomiting following paediatric day-case tonsillectomy: audit of the Epsom protocol.

Objective:To audit a protocol for elective, day-case, paediatric ENT surgery, previously reported as enabling an overall post-operative nausea and vomiting rate of 2 per cent and a discharge rate of 1...

Is the common cold a clinical entity or a cultural concept?

Common cold is the most common infectious disease of mankind and the term is widely used in the clinical literature as though it were a defined clinical syndrome. Clinical studies on this syndrome oft...

Arabidopsis MKKK20 is involved in osmotic stress response via regulation of MPK6 activity.

Plants have developed various regulatory pathways to adapt to environmental stresses. In this study, we identified Arabidopsis MKKK20 as a regulator in the response to osmotic stress. mkkk20 mutants w...

An extended cure model and model selection.

We propose a novel interpretation for a recently proposed Box-Cox transformation cure model, which leads to a natural extension of the cure model. Based on the extended model, we consider an important...