In fact, the therapeutic benefits of cold temperature, particularly its analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, were discovered by the ancient Egyptians and the Greek physician Hippocrates (Dawber & Cooper, 2001). Such intervention has evolved from the simple application of ice packs to the development of cutting edge equipment which utilizes the concept involving the effects of cold temperatu...

It is the position of the American College of Sports Medicine that exercise can be performed safely in most cold-weather environments without incurring cold-weather injuries. The key to prevention is use of a comprehensive risk management strategy that: a) identifies/assesses the cold hazard; b) identifies/ assesses contributing factors for cold-weather injuries; c) develops controls to mitigat...

Avibacterium paragallinarum is the causative agent of infectious coryza. Here we report the draft genome sequence of reference strain 221 of A. paragallinarum serovar A. The genome is composed of 135 contigs for 2,685,568 bp with a 41% G+C content.

OBJECTIVE This study's objective was to assess the relationship of empathy in medical office visits to subsequent outcomes of the common cold. METHODS A total of 350 subjects ? 12 years of age received either a standard or enhanced physician visit as part of a randomized controlled trial. Enhanced visits emphasized empathy on the part of the physician. The patient-scored Consultation and Rela...

There is good evidence that most of the baryons in the Universe are dark and some evidence that most of the matter in the Universe is nonbaryonic with cold dark matter (cdm) being a promising possibility. We discuss expectations for the abundance of baryons and cdm in the halo of our galaxy and locally. We show that in plausible cdm models the local density of cdm is at least 10 g cm. We also d...

OBJECTIVE Incorrectly concluding that the probability of a joint event (such as a combination of clinical findings) is greater than the probability of any one of these events alone is known as the conjunction fallacy. It is one type of cognitive error in estimation of probability to which physicians are known to be prone. The purpose of this study was to determine whether beginning medical stud...

The experimental studies on the incitant of common colds in man to be reported in this paper were begun shortly after the investigations on influenza by Olitsky and Gates t~ were undertaken. They were initiated by the desire to check or control the latter studies and to determine, if possible, any causative agent in the nasopharyngeal secretions derived from persons suffering from common colds....

A Gram-negative bacillus corresponding to the hemophilic bacterium originally described by De Blieck was regularly isolated from birds infeetedwith type I coryza (2, 3). There is reason tobelieve that this bacillus, now known as Henwphil~ ga~linarum, was the only etiologic factor involved. The relation of H. ga~li~zrum to the type III coryza with which it was also associated was less clearly de...