Zinc supplements can reduce the severity of the common cold and help people recover faster, say the authors of a new review.
A review on the ability of zinc to prevent and treat colds published in 1999 was inconclusive. This new paper, published in The Cochrane Library - a key resource for evidence-based medicine - includes an additional eight studies, bringing the total number of analyzed trials to 15 and number of participants to 1360.
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