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Study: Ginger capsules ease chemotherapy nausea

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Ginger, long used as a folk remedy for soothing tummyaches, helped tame one of the most dreaded side effects of cancer treatment - nausea from chemotherapy, the first large study to test the herb for this has found.





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Why do astronauts suffer from space sickness?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Centrifuging astronauts for a lengthy period provided researcher Suzanne Nooij with better insight into how space sickness develops, the nausea and disorientation experienced by many astronauts. Nooij defended her PhD theses ...


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Not just your imagination: The brain perceives optical illusions as real motion

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ever get a little motion sick from an illusion graphic designed to look like it's moving? A new study suggests that these illusions do more than trick the eye; they may also convince the brain that the graphic ...


Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday announced an agreement to help African nations battle the tsetse fly, the main carrier of parasites that causes sleeping sickness with its bites.


US astronaut John Grunsfeld performing a spacewalk

'Space headaches' come out of the blue

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Researchers are calling for space headache to be established as a new secondary disorder after carrying out a study of 17 astronauts, published in the June issue of Cephalalgia.


Further spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda likely due to livestock movements

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The northwards spread of human Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda is likely due to the movement of infected livestock, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary research group including members from the Centre ...


Engineers track bacteria's kayak paddle-like motion for first time

Physics / Soft Matter

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.


L-R: Astronauts Robert Thirsk, Roman Romanenko and Frank De Winne

New dinner table top priority as ISS expands

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six.


NASA Portable Hyperbaric Chamber Technology Finds Home on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies.


Virtual reality gets real

Virtual reality gets real

Technology /

created Apr 13, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (25) | comments 0

Creating close to real-life virtual reality (VR) experiences has proven to be costly and has had rather poor results. In response, a European research team has explored how exploiting visual and auditory illusions ...


Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea (AP)

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.



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