Word: nausea
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...remission for nearly a year. Thalidomide has a fearsome reputation for causing more damage than it repairs. Scientists first synthesized the drug in Germany in 1954 as an antihistamine. As a way to control allergies it was not especially effective, but it did show promise as a medication for nausea, which is why it was given to pregnant women in the 1960s to curb morning sickness. But it also caused terrible deformities in their babies. By the time thalidomide was banned in 1962, it had been blamed for severe handicaps - severely misshapen limbs, organ defects - in more than...
...drug does have its risks. According to several clinical studies, Prozac is associated with insomnia, restlessness, nausea, weakness, loss of appetite and tremors. For up to 60% of users, Prozac will interfere with their sex drive. Given indiscriminately to manic-depressives, it can trigger serious manic episodes. And there is anecdotal evidence linking Prozac with suicide and other violent behavior, although whether Prozac or the underlying depression is to blame is still an open question...
University Health Services (UHS) and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) are working together to prevent a large scale outbreak of the Norwalk virus, which causes nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, from reaching Harvard’s campus...
...said her symptoms included nausea, vomiting and fatigue—classic symptoms of the viral illness...
Flash forward 34 years, and Norwalk-like viruses (there's a whole family of them) are all over the news as one ocean liner after another limps into port with passengers complaining of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and cramping. The CDC, which gets called in whenever more than 2% of a vessel's passengers come down with the same disease, identified Norwalk as the infectious agent and oversaw thorough ship scrubbings--which, to the dismay of the owners of the cruise lines, haven't made the problem go away...