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Article: Michigan State U. study tests drug to treat cold sores
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- March 2, 2001
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Cutler Fetherston
University Wire
03-02-2001
(The State News) (U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Don't ask Deborah Sudduth about cold sores -- she's suffered from them, off and on, for the last 10 years. Two months ago, Sudduth, an executive assistant to the dean in the College of Nursing, participated in a Michigan State University study that cured her cold sores in less than two days.
"I've never had an experience like that before," Sudduth said. "I could feel the cold sore starting on Sunday. I called (the research clinic), took the pills they gave me and the cold sore was gone by Tuesday.
"The medicine just squashed it."
The treatment Sudduth was given is part of a study conducted by Sharon ...