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...earliest stages of infection and placed them on combination therapy. All the men appeared healthy before treatment. For them, ironically, the first signs of illness have been the side effects of the drugs they are taking, not the virus. Three have dropped out because they couldn't take the nausea and cramping...
...know anybody who ever had cancer--or if you ever had it yourself--you know the ordeal that Jo Daly has gone through. When she started chemotherapy for colon cancer, the side effects included a "nuclear implosion" of nausea. Then came a burning pain under the nails of her fingers and toes. The good news is that she eventually found relief. The bad news is that it came from marijuana, which is not available by legal means. Worse news is that Daly is a former member of the San Francisco police commission, the body that regulates the police department. Even...
...This is an attempt to bring medicine to people who are needlessly suffering for lack of it," says Bill Zimmerman of Californians for Medical Rights, which sponsors the proposition. Many patients say pot eases the nausea of chemotherapy. It may also stimulate the appetite to counter the wasting effects of AIDS and reduce eye pressure caused by glaucoma. As a substitute the Food and Drug Administration has approved Marinol, a synthetic pill version of THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. But patients often report it doesn't alleviate nausea. Daly tried it without success before turning...
...food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification the reason we ventured into the cosmos in the first place...
...protesters won't know where to set up their picket lines. The drug does have some serious drawbacks: it has to be taken within seven weeks of a woman's last menstrual period; it fails about 5% of the time; and it can have side effects, including cramping, nausea and severe bleeding. In Europe it is used for only about 20% of all abortions. But in the U.S., where women routinely run protest gauntlets at clinic doors, the percentage is expected to be much higher...