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...only thing Hillory Janean Farias is known to have drunk that night was a couple of soda pops. Still, she came home from the dance club near her hometown of La Porte, Texas, with nausea and a severe headache. Within 24 hours the 17-year-old varsity volleyball player was dead. An autopsy showed no sign of alcohol or drugs. Then, alerted by Houston police of the dangers of a new club drug called gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, investigators decided to take a second look. Sure enough, Farias' tissues showed that she had died of a GHB overdose. "This...
...colds, think zinc. A study finds that sufferers who begin to pop a kind of ZINC LOZENGE (gluconate glycine) within 24 hours of symptoms get over their sniffles and sore throat three days sooner than those who suck on a placebo. Possible side effects: nausea and a bad taste...
...useful--even if it is a sugar pill or snake oil--that belief has the power to heal. In one classic 1950 study, for instance, pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting. "Most of the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect," observes Benson in Timeless Healing...
TASZAR, HUNGARY: Reuters is reporting that a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to Operation Joint Endeavor died of an apparent heart attack at Taszar Air Base in Hungary on Thursday. According to the Pentagon, Clement Southall, 39, of Virginia Beach, Va., experienced nausea and breathing difficulties in his quarters at the base late last night...
...Nausea and fever from an apparent flu forced Pope John Paul II to miss the Christmas Day Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and cut short the traditional Urbi et Orbi Christmas message. Working on just three hours' sleep after his Christmas Eve midnight Mass, the 75-year-old Pontiff told the crowd in St. Peter's Square, "Even the Pope has his weaknesses. Yet I try to resist...