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Insights Gained from Growing Cold-Causing Virus on Sinus Tissue

Using sinus tissue removed during surgery at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have managed to grow a recently discovered species of human rhinovirus (HRV), the most frequent cause of the common cold, in ...More

April 11, 2011

Posted in News

Study Finds Hand Disinfectants Do Little to Prevent Spread of Rhinovirus or Influenza Virus

A team of researchers led by University of Virginia cold expert Ronald Turner, MD, found in a nationwide study that alcohol-based hand disinfectants fail to significantly reduce the frequency of infection from either the rhinovirus or the influenza virus. Turner is ...More

September 13, 2010

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, Hand Hygiene

FDA Revises Recommendations for Rotavirus Vaccines

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today revised its recommendations for rotavirus vaccines for the prevention of the disease in infants and has determined that it is appropriate for clinicians and healthcare professionals to resume the use of Rotarix and to continue ...More

May 17, 2010

Posted in News

Are Hand Sanitizers Better Than Handwashing Against the Common Cold?

A new study suggests that hand sanitizers containing ethanol are much more effective at removing rhinovirus from hands than washing with soap and water. Sanitizers containing both ethanol and organic acids significantly reduced recovery of the virus from hands and ...More

March 23, 2010

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions

Components of Extraneous Virus Detected in Rotarix Vaccine; No Known Safety Risk

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that healthcare practitioners temporarily suspend use of the Rotarix vaccine for rotavirus immunization in the United States while the agency learns more about components of an extraneous virus detected in the vaccine. ...More

March 23, 2010

Posted in News

New Vaccine Developed for Preventing “Uncommon” Cold Virus

Common colds typically cause a week of sneezing, aches and pains and then fade away leaving only a sore nose and a few used sick days behind. But what if that cold turned out to be something more? Human adenovirus type-3 is known as the “uncommon cold” because ...More

February 2, 2009

Posted in News

Getting Less Sleep Associated With Lower Resistance to Colds

Individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or more, according to a report in the Jan. 12 issue of Archives of Internal ...More

January 12, 2009

Posted in News

Childhood Wheezing with Rhinovirus Can Increase Asthma Odds 10-Fold

Infants who experience viral respiratory illnesses with wheezing are known to be at increased risk for developing asthma later during childhood. It is not known, however, whether every type of respiratory virus that produces wheezing presents similar risk. Using new ...More

October 6, 2008

Posted in News

Unusual Rotavirus Season May Be Due to Newly Introduced Vaccine

Rotavirus activity in the ongoing 2007-2008 season appears to have started later than usual and have been less severe than during any of the previous seasons for which data are available, according to an interim report issued in today's early release edition of the Centers ...More

June 25, 2008

Posted in News

Immune System Kick-started in Moist Nasal Lining in Sinusitis, Asthma and Colds

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have outlined a new path for potential therapies to combat inflammation associated with sinusitis and asthma based on a new understanding of the body's earliest immune response in the nose and sinus cavities. Researchers say their findings, to be ...More

April 29, 2008

Posted in News

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