Coughing & sneezing for cash.

• Position: MEDICINE - Brief article

It pays to catch a co(d in Cardiff. The Welsh capital is home to the Common Cold Center, which researches and tests cold and flu treatments for companies like Procter & Gamble and Pfizer. Based at the University of Cardiff, the tempter has a ready supply of test subjects: 22,000 mostly cash-poor students who, between them, catch up to 80,000 colds a year. "I did get better," says Anna Taylor, 23, who offered up her stuffy nose for a study of a new decongestant. Every hour, she snorted down a tube hooked up...