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As cold and flu season continues, the UNMC chicken soup study story still is going strong in the news. But did you know the UNMC chicken soup study story is reaching people \u2026 in Poland?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Rennard, MD, professor of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine, and his co-investigator, wife Barbara Rennard, were recently featured in Newsweek Polska for their scientific research showing that mom was, of course, right. Chicken soup really can help you feel better when you are sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you are just joining us, Dr. Rennard is a world-renowned COPD researcher. But he is far more world renowned for his study on chicken soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story has been in the news again and again, and now in Polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now-retired UNMC media relations expert Vicky Cerino, who shepherded the chicken soup story over the past two decades, once estimated the publicity this study has brought the med center was worth \u201cperhaps several million\u201d dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rennard went into the lab, using his wife\u2019s grandmother\u2019s magical chicken soup recipe, to test a hypothesis. He published the results in a peer-reviewed journal<\/a> in 2000. The study has been cited by the media nonstop ever since. Twenty-three years later, it\u2019s still in newspapers, magazines, websites, broadcasts and podcasts, all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As the Polish story shows us, there is an international language. And that language is chicken soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why this story endures. Of course, a researcher discovering that there\u2019s a scientific basis behind mom\u2019s favorite home remedy is quirky and fun. But it\u2019s more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logically, it\u2019s about inhibiting neutrophil migration and an anti-inflammatory effect that can lead to mitigation of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it also is about the memory of a mother or grandmother (or father or grandfather) bringing us something hot, so we feel better when we are sick. This story is about safety. It is about comfort. It is about love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We used to try to keep track of how many times Dr. Rennard and the chicken soup study have been mentioned in the news. But after 23 years, we can no longer keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be like trying to count the stars in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be like trying to measure a grandmother\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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