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With a mixture of nausea and panic at the number of calories she had just consumed, Susan drove quickly back to her office where she delivered the yogurt to her co-workers, and then went into the bathroom where she made herself throw...
...England Journal of Medicine, the Texas researchers report trying the therapy on five women with advanced breast cancer that no longer responded to conventional treatment. The women experienced reddening of tissue, blistering and burning sensations at the tumor sites, as well as chills, nausea and vomiting. But in four patients, repeated washing reduced the tumor size by 33% to 79%. Despite these tentative successes, the team stresses that the technique is experimental. More work is needed to determine its usefulness and safety...
There are also reminders of the first encounters with that grisly ailment of the atomic age, so puzzling to its initial victims, known as radiation sickness. Among the early signs: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever and diarrhea. By the second week, hair began to fall out, the gums became painfully swollen, the white-blood-cell count fell sharply. Severe exposure usually meant death. Lethal rays did not always come directly from the blasts. The explosions produced some 200 different isotopes, most of them radioactive, with varying half-lives. Days after the bombs fell, survivors were exposed...
There are signs, however, of a shift in attitude. It stems in part from studies showing that the gripping pelvic cramps as well as the headaches, backache, nausea and diarrhea suffered by many women during their monthly flow may be caused by prostaglandins. These potent chemicals, produced by the body, help regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts...
...much information flowing in, and the user becomes hyperaroused." With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light a kind of fire in the brain...