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Kenneth McIntosh, MD

JAMA. 1999;281:1844-1845.

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The search for a "cure for the common cold" resembles in some ways a late 20th-century quest for the holy grail, and although new and remarkable medical discoveries are reported almost daily, the skeptics reiterate that medicine still cannot cure the most frequent infectious disease, the common cold. It is not that accomplished scientists have not tried, and the literature is filled with accounts of these attempts. But the goal has evaded researchers for years, and it is in this context that we should evaluate the report of Turner and colleagues¹ in this issue of THE JOURNAL.

The approaches to research into treatment of the common cold can be roughly divided into 2 large categories: the antiviral and the anti-inflammatory. Acute viral respiratory tract infections are brief events, in which symptoms first appear when the immune response is already active, and, in most instances, the virus is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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