Pregnant Sickness

Motion sickness

The term motion sickness was originally introduced to provide a nosological classification for disorders elicited by exposure to unusual patterns of motion, such as sea sickness, train sickness, and swing sickness. The term came to subsume air sickness as well, and in recent years, simulator sickness, space sickness, and cybersickness (virtual environment sickness). It is now recognized that bo...

Slimming Sickness

Anorexia nervosa, a rare illness which occurs predominantly among adolescent girls, usually begins with dieting which gradually gets out of hand.

Selling sickness.

Imagine that you are the chief executive of a large pharmaceutical firm seeking innovative ways to increase sales. You realize that physicians prescribe drugs only to the sick and that there is a vast untapped market of well persons who are potential customers. Reaching them would require broadening the boundaries of illness so that healthy people could be redefined as patients in need of drug ...

Motion sickness

Your brain gets information from several sources concerning the type and direction of your movements. The first, and most important, source is the inner ear. The inner ear, also responsible for balance, contains fluid that shifts according to your body's movement, pushing little hairs one way or the other. This lets your brain know about the direction you're moving in. Your brain also receives ...

Road Sickness