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Below are media releases and interviews from the 2008 Common colds need common sense, not antibiotics campaign.
Media releases
- Got a cold? No pill will cure that ill — 5 August 2008
- Our antibiotic 'addiction' is not helping our children fight their colds — 4 August 2008
- Complementary therapies — jury is out on cold prevention — 9 July 2008
- Common colds: Green snot = good! Sorting facts from fiction — 1 July 2008
- Kids and common colds: try non-medicine treatments — 24 June 2008
- Good hygiene not pills the best way of avoiding a cold — 24 June 2008
Interviews
- Radio interview with Karen Kaye, ABC News Canberra — Antiobiotics don't work on common colds (5 August 2008)
- Radio interview with Judith Mackson, ABC North Coast — Common colds and treatments (26 June 2008)
