Word: diarrheas
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...those of the womb. Soon doctors were using them to speed up labor in difficult births and to induce abortion when other techniques had failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus pharmaceutical firms have looked for artificial variants without side effects that could be delivered directly into the vagina...
...institute hopes to provide the village health workers with the skills of "barefoot doctors, "Joseph said. "Simple activities make a lot of difference in the rural regions," where many deaths are caused by malnutrition, malaria, diabetes and diarrhea, he said. Drought Stricken...
...would ordinarily be fatal for most human beings -then put back on the treadmill to see how their capacities had been impaired and how long they survived. They lasted from seven hours to almost six days. In the meantime they suffered the predictable effects of excessive radiation exposure: vomiting, diarrhea, loss of hair. Despite this, Lieut. Colonel William J. McGee of the Defense Nuclear Agency has declared: "To the best of our knowledge, the animals experience no pain from radiation experiments." Charles McPherson, head of the rhesus monkey certification program, insists: "What the armed forces were doing met the definition...
...cruise business is subject. Tropical storms can be almost as devastating as the sudden breakdown of a ship. Many Caribbean islands are politically combustible beneath their Edenic exteriors. And the industry is periodically plagued by bad publicity every time a shipload of vacationers returns home doubled over with diarrhea. In a one-year period that ended last Thanksgiving, 73 cruise ships underwent a total of 625 U.S. Government sanitation-standards inspection tests -and failed the tests two-thirds of the time. Unfortunately there are no laws on the books that would allow Washington either to order the ships cleaned...
...trembled before his baton-snapping temper. "Sometimes," says Rostropovich in his near-impenetrable English, "conductor says to orchestra, 'You play for me and my ego!' No. Orchestra must not think conductor is god. Some day he is running quick to bathroom, then orchestra says, 'There go god with diarrhea.' I, with my work, make service for our most important god?music. I tell them, you not work for me,' I not work for you. We work first for our music, then for our people?for Washington, for America...