you know, there s at least four hours of your life that s just lost. reporter: he says he s created a way to prevent hangovers. it s called bytox. and he says it does for the hangover what dramamine patches do for motion sickness. he says this patch is like being attached to an iv, continuously infusing vitamins into the bloodstream. alcohol itself is a diuretic. and what happens is that the kidneys go into overdrive and you re basically washing out everything that s water-soluble. reporter: he created the patch with alex fleischmaker, who suffered a hangover so awful after a night out with the boys he had to call on his family friend dr. grossman for help. he administered an iv full of vitamins. and within ten minutes i felt great. reporter: hangover remedies have been around for as long as booze. coffee, honey, greasy foods, hair of the dog. and now there s blowfish. no, not the poisonous puffer fish. a new over-the-counter drug that promises to upright your hangover. not w
just in time for christmas and new year s celebration, f.d.a. approved a new hangover cure called blow fish. e.ow does that grab you the over-the-counter drug made with aspirin and caffeine and a stomach smoothing agent and folks suffering from hangovers are directed to take two tablets and call me no, the doctor in the morning after a night of heavy drinking. it claims to knock out hangover sympto of ineni5 to 30 minutes and does it work? and the doctor joins us now from the a-team. blow fish, the name alone is a buzz kill to anyone trying to get the of elves into a problem with they have a hangover? yeah, this just came out and also another one, that s a patch that you put in, which is a b-6, but look, you have to be careful because this has about a thousand milligram of as principal and 120 milligram of caffeine, and the type of message is not to put a patch on and start taking these after
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s to be a lamming among brown s supporters that he hasn t been able to support bipartisan legislation in the senate. speaking of the senate, they ll vote this morning on a nomination to lead the new consumer financial protection bureau. he is not expected to be confirmed today given republican complaints the new agency itself is too powerful. there are hints that may be there is a recess appointment if somehow the senate does go into full recess. the obama administration is overruling, as you heard us talk earlier, the fda s initial decision to make the plan b morning-after pill an over-the-counter drug. the health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, wants to continue the status o quo, which requires women younger than 17 to get a prescription. that is drawing criticism from reproductive rights activists, one of the first ever that an hhs secretary has overruled the fda. in 71 days, disgraced illinois governor bin ladfverno
er in not being sold as drugs. that s the key. they are being sold at bath salts. that s a code name. they go under the name of ivory and new waves. what s the other name for them? a bunch of different names for them. this is being disguides as an over-the-counter drug that is being used for illicit purposes. just so the dea doesn t start screaming as the us. megyn: i feel better. kelly s court is back in session. the iron man too injured to fight fire. he was one of wisconsin s famous until he banged his funny bone on a kitchen top at a milwaukee