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Sources--GOOD NEWS: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; New England Journal of Medicine; American Society of Clinical Oncology BAD NEWS: Journal of the American Medical Association and British Medical Journal; National Cancer Institute; Benadryl Itch Index...
Thousands of different kinds of nonprescription capsules continue to be sold today. In all, Americans bought about 10.5 billion doses of these gelatin-cased medications last year. Among the leading brands: Contac (made by SmithKline Beckman), and Sinutab and Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able...
...county medical examiner testified that Whiting had died of an overdose of drugs, including methaqualone, Benadryl and a Librium-type drug. However, a pharmacologist hired by Whiting's mother said that the amount of methaqualone in Whiting's bloodstream need not have been fatal. Left unexplained was how Whiting's blood came to be on a pillowcase, towel, tissues and the washbasin in his own room, as well as on a blue sweater he had apparently been wearing. Also unaccounted for were the severe cut on the back of his head and scratches on his stomach, chest...
...quarts of coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...
...drugs used in the treatment of cancer. To these must now be added drugs of many types. Columbia University's Dr. O. Jack Miller noted that the widely used "major tranquilizer," chlorpromazine (Thorazine), has been shown to produce breaks in a few cases, and even the antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl) in one case. Western Reserve's Dr. Mor ton Stenchever added the popular minor tranquilizers chlordiazepoxide and diazepam (Librium and Valium) to the list as causing breaks in animal cells, though this effect has not yet been confirmed in human patients. The antibiotics have not been shown to cause...