Month: September 2020

The Benadryl Challenge is allegedly making the rounds on TikTok, encouraging social media users to overdose on the over-the-counter drug in order to hallucinate. Deliberately overdosing on Benadryl may cause severe damage to your heart and cardiovascular system, experts explain. A new TikTok trend known as the Benadryl Challenge has medical authorities and parenting experts on alert, as it seems some social media users are consuming dangerously high doses of the over-the-counter drug to feel what's known as clinical delirium. According to local reporters at News4 in Oklahoma City, a 15-year-old girl overdosed while reportedly attempting the challenge and eventually died due to complications stemming from excessive Benadryl in late August; her case is just one of several recent ...

A former Trump campaign official now spokesman for the US health department sought to change key reports on the coronavirus pandemic, in some cases “openly complaining” that they “would undermine the president’s optimistic messages about the outbreak”, according to internal emails seen by Politico. The official, Michael Caputo, told the website he was attempting to stymie “ulterior deep state motives in the bowels” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. The news comes after reports that a whistleblower at the Department of Homeland Security said he was told to stop making Donald Trump “look bad”, via reports on Russian election interference. It also comes as a new book by Bob Woodward details the president’s reasoning behind optimistic messaging about the coronavirus ...

Members of a now-closed Detroit fitness center gathered outside the building one last time Friday afternoon to say farewell and reminisce about a place that, for them, was as much about building friendships as working out. Two days earlier, Henry Ford Health System made a surprise announcement that it would permanently close the center, FitnessWorks, 6525 2nd Ave. in the city's New Center, because the hospital system owns the building and needs the fitness center's space to expand its patient physical therapy services. The news came as a shock to many of FitnessWorks' 2,400 members and 48 employees. And it happened the same day that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lifted her coronavirus pandemic closure order for all gyms and fitness centers in lower Michigan. “So the day that all the gyms can open...

New research is offering hope to peanut allergy sufferers. A large-scale trial suggests that oral immunotherapy treatment could allow sufferers to increase their tolerance to peanuts. The idea is not that those with peanut allergies will be able to eat the nuts freely, but that their reactions could be reduced. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.   A pioneering new study is offering new hope to peanut allergy sufferers. It may be possible to reduce the severity of allergic reactions to peanuts, research published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health suggests. Peanut allergy is the leading cause of food-related anaphylaxis, the report states, with 6.1 million people suffering from the allergy in the US. The number of sufferers ha...

As we get closer to a COVID-19 vaccine, it's exciting to imagine a day when the virus is gone. But a vaccine will not be a magic bullet. In fact, it may be only about 50% effective. Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief of the National Institute of Health and Infectious Disease, has tried to set realistic expectations when discussing the importance of a vaccine. "We don't know yet what the efficacy might be. We don't know if it will be 50% or 60%," Fauci said during a Brown University event in August. I'd like it to be 75% or more," Fauci said, but he acknowledged that may not be realistic. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration has said that once a vaccine is shown to be safe and at least 50% effective it could be ...