Month: June 2021

Plenty of dangerous TikTok challenges have gone viral over recent months, but the latest trend almost became deadly after a 20-year-old influencer said it triggered a heart attack. The craze is called “dry scooping” and involves swallowing pre-workout powder, which has an energizing effect, instead of diluting it with water. The supplement is typically made of amino acids, B vitamins, caffeine, creatine and artificial sweeteners. Ingesting it dry is supposed to intensify the effect and hype you up. What is the dry scooping TikTok trend? One woman who tried dry scooping coughed the powder all over her boyfriend, who had seamlessly swallowed it moments before her. The video went viral on TikTok. There are a number of videos with similar reaction...

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By Nancy Lapid June 2 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Coronavirus does not threaten U.S. blood supply Current guidelines for screening U.S. blood donors for symptoms of COVID-19 and for a history of recent infections are effectively protecting the blood supply from contamination with the new coronavirus, researchers say. In a study conducted for the National Institutes of Health, researchers tested nearly 18,000 "minipools" of blood samples – that is, blood samples pooled from total...