Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman in Mississippi nursing a broken hip last month decided to brew herself a particularly strong cup of Celestial Seasonings' comfrey tea. After putting enough tea in one cupful to make about 18 servings, she complained of nausea and blurry vision. Though the woman quickly recovered, the incident has caused a painful hangover for the teamaker. It prompted Celestial Seasonings to postpone a $12 million stock offering, and the company recalled some 6,000 cases...
...could not look further, and turned away to quell the nausea. I looked again, a last time, at the body and the friends. Now a circle of vultures had formed a about the still bleeding victim, horrified at the sight, but relishing it enough to stay and see the blood-letting continue...
...satellite from space and bring it aboard the shuttle for repairs. Throughout the flight, Bluford and other crew members served as subjects for research conducted aloft by Astronaut and Physician William Thornton, into the causes of motion sickness. Fully 40% of shuttle astronauts have complained of nausea while weightless in space. To aid understanding of the malady, crew members affixed electrodes to their skin to record eye movements as they floated about the weightless cabin...
...known as space-adaptation syndrome during the initial hours of weightlessness. At the astronauts' request, Mission Control no longer publicly discusses medical problems during a flight. But judging by the demeanor of the five during television broadcasts from Challenger, none of the crew seemed to have had a nausea problem...
...especially devastating. Patients become so apprehensive that they may feel nauseated just at the thought of treatment, says Psychologist Thomas Burish of Vanderbilt University. "One woman even vomited in a drugstore when she saw the nurse who administered her therapy." Burish has helped cancer patients control their anxiety and nausea through biofeedback and progressive muscle-relaxation training. While the technique is not a cure, he says, "pa-tients do gain a positive feeling of being in control again. It is one of the few things they can do to help themselves...