Word: nausea
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...heart disease more dramatically for women. Even the signs of an incipient heart attack can be different for each sex. While some women get the classic symptoms--chest and arm pain, a squeezing sensation in the chest and shortness of breath--many others experience atypical symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea and pressure between the shoulder blades...
...scientists to inject him. The operative is slipped out of the country and put on a commercial airliner bound for the U.S. Dozens of passengers within spitting distance of the Iraqi agent are unknowingly infected. Just as U.S. troops arrive in Baghdad, thousands of American civilians begin experiencing fever, nausea and backache--all the symptoms of smallpox...
...most agonizing choices a patient with a life-threatening illness has to make is when to put quality of life ahead of length of life. Case in point: chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery. Although the side effects of chemo (among them nausea, fatigue and hair loss) can be brutal, the treatment does work: patients who go through it will, on average, live longer. So I was surprised to read in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine that only 29% of breast-cancer patients actually take their doctor's advice and get chemotherapy after surgery. Even more striking...
...from healthy cells. At Merck he spearheaded the company's 2001 acquisition of Rosetta InPharmatics, a biotech company. Kim, 44, was recently named head of Merck Research Laboratories, which spent approximately $3 billion last year. Among its products in late-stage development: treatments for depression, diabetes and chemotherapy-induced nausea, as well as a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer...
...also in London, Steven Schey has been treating 24 patients suffering from multiple myeloma with Actimid, another thalidomide analogue. Previous treatment regimens had been ineffective on these patients, but Schey found a 65% response rate to Actimid. He also noticed that the drug lessened the feelings of lethargy and nausea that afflict chemotherapy patients. And it helps them put on weight, which increases their feelings of wellness. "Even patients whose disease didn't respond to the drug still felt better," he says. It's still "early days" to claim too much for thalidomide, Schey warns, but he is setting...