Article: A thousand volunteers to put herbal cold remedy to the test; Cardiff Common Cold Centre to study echinacea.(News)

Article: Twenty years of research in city into the common ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... worked with researchers at the Common Cold Centre, in Cardiff, to test their ... to have suffered one. The Common Cold Centre was set up to carry out research ... Ron Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre, at Cardiff University, said ...

Article: Health: Still fighting the cold war Half the people who read this ...
The Independent - London;  December 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... other countries, even though the common cold feels like a British institution ... cold virus, the head of the Common Cold Centre had finally admitted defeat ... of patients seen by GPs for a common cold were given some sort of antibiotic ...

Article: Health: COLD-PROOF YOUR WINTER; On average, we get three colds a ...
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  October 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Caroline Blight ECHINACEA How it works: A popular choice for cold-busting, echinacea is everywhere at this time of year. ItOs thought to stimulate white blood cells into fighting infection. Try dropping Fushi Tincture Of Echinacea Purpurea, pounds 9.95, in your tea. ProfOs verdict: OItOs

Article: Could Welsh spray cure the common cold?(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... spending at least two days a year bedridden by the common cold, the breakthrough promises to have huge implications ... Prof Eccles, who heads the university's Common Cold Centre, has said, 'Common cold does have a great economic impact on any country ...

Article: Genetic study finds common cold uncommonly ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  February 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Hunting for the elusive cure for the common cold, scientists have decoded the ... the studys lead author. But the common cold will never be eradicated, said Ronald Eccles, director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University in Wales ...

Article: No cure for common cold
The Independent - London;  November 10, 1998 ;     505 words ... ... 2ft-high model of a cold virus - the head of the Common Cold Centre has reached a rather important conclusion. There is no cure for the common cold. Professor Ron Eccles, the director of the centre ...

Article: Common cold is linked t o chilly feet.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  November 14, 2005 ;     536 words ... ... Eccles, from Cardiff University's Common Cold Centre, recruited 180 volunteers to take ... their study during the city's common cold season. The intrepid participants ... allow the virus to get stronger and common cold symptoms develop