Word: nausea
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...acute leukemia; in Tokyo. Growing up an orphan in Switzerland and teased by schoolmates, Hug was inspired by the Rocky movies and trained relentlessly in martial arts from age 12. Considered the Michael Jordan of his sport, he was mobbed in Europe and Japan. Last week, after enduring nausea and nosebleeds, Hug was admitted to a Tokyo hospital with a high fever and was found to have leukemia. He was put on chemotherapy but suffered immediate organ failure and brain damage...
CHEERS! A medication used to quell nausea in cancer patients may reduce an alcoholic's cravings. Research shows that after three months on the drug ondansetron, drinkers cut their booze intake from an average of eight glasses a day to just two. Caveat: on dansetron works only in those who became alcoholics before age 25--about 3.5 million people--probably because young drinkers tend to have a specific biological predisposition to the disease...
...what, besides chest pain, should you watch for? Probably the next biggest tip-off is extreme shortness of breath. Indeed, many cardiologists consider difficulty breathing to be as good an indicator of a possible heart attack as chest pain. Other less specific signs include nausea, profuse sweating and fainting. Some heart-attack victims describe a sudden, overwhelming sense of doom or feel pain under their scapula--the "wing" bones in the back...
...conditions were excellent and that we'd be able to jump. When I met my pilot, Eric, he asked me how I was feeling before I took flight. I said I was just glad to be out of the truck, neglecting to mention the most recent bout of nausea and accompanying thoughts of "What am I doing?!" But as he spread out the parachute and we attached our harnesses, and the chute filled with air and jerked us even higher than our take-off point, thoughts of plummeting to my death were replaced by the pleasant sensation of floating through...
...children with Tourette's syndrome--a bizarre affliction in which patients involuntarily grimace, shout obscenities, even bark--finds that those given nicotine patches along with standard medication (the tranquilizer Haldol) had fewer symptoms than kids on placebo patches. And though some young users complained of side effects like nausea, none got hooked...