For Dr Edward Baker, the medical director for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, the hospital, which was inaugurated yesterday, has even in its first days of use proved a stimulating space, one that "distracts patients from the illness side of things".When the design was put out to competition by the Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust, in 1999, the trust's doctors were attracted by the entry from the eventual winners, the London-based practice of Hopkins Architects. The Evelina takes the fear (and ever-threatening ennui) out of hospital care for children by placing it in a friendly, almost tactile environment. The terracotta and white building on the south bank of the Thames combines the atrium-based spectacle of a designer resort hotel with the multi-coloured warmth of a worker-friendly (even Google-esque) corporate HQ.The Evelina's equivalent to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is the atrium, or conservatory - a vaulting space in a great arc of glass and steel that rises through six stories and pours light into the inpatient areas. The Tate Modern took the fear (and potential ennui) out of art by placing it in an unfamiliar scale, in an ex-industrial context. The Evelina is the first hospital in the capital to be purpose-built for children in more than a century. The last was the original Evelina, opened on a site in Southwark Bridge Road in 1869 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a member of the banking dynasty, in memory of his young wife Evelina, who had died in childbirth. The new Evelina does for healthcare what its Thames-side neighbour Tate Modern has done for art galleries It reverses expectations.

This hi-tech building is a landmark for paediatric medicine, for community fundraising and for the London skyline. The opening of any hospital is an event, but the opening of the new Evelina Children's Hospital is something more. But a second study found no differences between those having zinc and those who were receiving a placebo.. A study involving more than 100 employees at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States indicated that taking zinc lozenges reduced the length of colds by half, although no differences were seen in how long fevers lasted, or in the level of muscle aches experienced by sufferers.

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