Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joints -- treatment must be prompt. Unfortunately, all four antifungal drugs in use are disagreeable and often toxic. The worst, victims agree, is amphotericin B, known as "Ampho the Terrible" to those who have to have it injected into the base of their skull for meningitis. The side effects include nausea, fever and kidney damage. In severe cases, where the fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years...
Forced retirement also left him more time for painting, a hobby he has enjoyed for many years. His artistic tastes run to the surreal; one painting is called Nausea. Another, Coma. A third, an allegorical study of genocide, is set in a frame that, by various accounts, was either painted red to look like blood or painted in actual human blood that Kevorkian salvaged from outdated samples at the local blood bank, and from...
Furthermore, doctors have learned that a given dose of morphine packs more punch when combined with local anesthetics like Bupivacaine or with the newest nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (the category to which Tylenol and aspirin belong). That strategy also helps patients avoid the side effects of opiates, such as nausea, constipation, hallucinations and itching...
...only ones sure to be hurt are those viewers who can't get used to the nosy, nausea-invoking camera style in the movie's fake documentary format. Take some Dramamine, folks. Then savor the desperate wit and the sharp acting -- especially that of Davis, who executes high comedy with the world's tensest mouth, and Farrow, doggedly searching for an Adam in a new Eden...
...home or away, threats lurk in the form of foods that produce allergic reactions ranging from nausea to death. Shellfish and nuts, especially peanuts, are among the most dangerous to the vulnerable, with the potential of causing anaphylactic shock, which is marked by sudden bronchial spasms, vomiting, plummeting blood pressure and heart arrhythmias. "Peanut allergy is a life-threatening disease," says Dr. John Oppenheimer of Denver's National Jewish Center. "The greatest nightmare for someone with a peanut allergy is dropping dead on a restaurant floor or at a potluck supper or a friend's dinner party...