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...call came into the CDC on Wednesday afternoon. An epidemiologist at the state health department in Wisconsin had been investigating almost 20 reports of E. coli poisoning in a matter of days, and after some initial labwork and extensive interviews with the victims, all of whom had reported bloody diarrhea, the scientists there suspected that bagged spinach might be the culprit, and called Atlanta. Shortly after, Dr. Patricia Griffin, chief of enteric diseases at CDC, says that the agency received a call from an epidemiologist in the state health department in Oregon. He had five cases, also traced to bagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Ready-to-Eat Spinach Is Only Part of the E. Coli Problem | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...Although hard to read, product inserts include some terms with which everyone is familiar, specifically, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia, malaise and muscle aches as well as the ever-popular "unknown dangers to nursing mothers." Yes, these can actually be the side effects of the drug your doc has prescribed but remember: the drug company lists every symptom the people in their test groups report - and it doesn't "blank" the reports against placebo. People are very suggestible, (Do you feel nausea? - "well come to think of it..."). Some of them may happen to have a hangover or gastrointestinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before You Pop That Pill | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...most, Anthony Okello is not the solution that comes immediately to mind. He's a medicine man, apprenticed as a teenager to the wandering witch doctor who treated him for a fever that other doctors couldn't cure. When a patient goes to Okello complaining of rashes and diarrhea, as Lucy Ajam did recently, he recognizes the typical symptoms of AIDS for what they are. He immediately sent Ajam to the nearest hospital to start her on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)--an approach even a traditionalist like Ajam heartily endorses. "For minor cases, I still use local herbs," says Ajam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling All Healers | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...water. "I think it's crazy." Indeed, doctors have advised swimmers to flush their eyes with antibiotic drops, and to refrain from taking part if they have cuts on their skin, while Guangzhou's Yangcheng Evening News quoted a woman whose training swims in the river left her with diarrhea and eye inflammation. Her sage advice to swimathon contestants: wear a wet suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Dive | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...During the feeding period, the prisoner will receive as much as 1.5 liters of formula, which, in the case of hunger strikers, can be more than their stomachs can comfortably hold. This can produce what is euphemistically called "dumping syndrome," an uncomfortable, even painful bout of nausea, vomiting, bloating, diarrhea, and shortness of breath. And those are precisely the symptoms that al-Shehri and many other force-fed prisoners have reported to their lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Guantanamo, Dying Is Not Permitted | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

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