Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/QJ-rZsjASZg   The FDA and Green Fields Farms Dairy have recalled Green Field Farms Whole Chocolate Milk with a code date of 9/29/21. This lot of milk was improperly pasteurized and could trigger a case of food poisoning if ingested.   If you have this milk in your fridge, return it to the place of purchase for a refund.   For more information, call Green Fields Farms...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/e6tRDy5Y_m4   The CPSC and Harbor Freight Tools are recalling Bauer Forced Air Propane Portable Heaters.   This heater may leak propane gas through a loose fitting on the back of the heater risking a fire and burns.   About 19,000 of these heaters were sold at Harbor Freight Tools stores nationwide and online at www.harborfreight.com .   If you ave one of these heater...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/MFHCp63kTaM   The CPSC and Textron now recall Textron E-Z-GO PTVs and Tracker Off-Road Vehicles.   The parking brake catch bracket may deteriorate causing the parking brake to fail and creating a crash hazard.    About 6600 of these vehicles were sold at E-Z-GO and Tracker Off-Road dealerships nationwide, online via E-Z-GO’s Dealer to Driveway program, and through Tra...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/YxZTrsLC0e0   Eating healthy, plant based foods is associated with a 41% lower risk of contracting a severe case of CoVid.   Researchers at Harvard’s Mass. General Hospital and King’s College London analyzed data from 592,571 subjects in the US and UK accumulated from March to December, 2020.   Participants noted their dietary habits on a smartphone-based survey, and...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/W6oovAmIhHk   Masking singers and the bells of musical instruments significantly reduces CoVid-carrying aerosols, but keeping their performances safe requires limiting them to 30 minutes indoors and 60 minutes outdoors.   These conclusions stem from collaborative studies by engineers at the Universities of Colorado and Maryland.   The investigators compared the aeroso...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/R44bfNmIRNo   When students in fully-open schools wear effective masks, the incidence of hospitalization of all in a community may be reduced by as much as 71%.   This the conclusion of a North Carolina study that employs a computer model using accumulated state data.   The simulation begins in July, 2021 with Delta CoVid predominant and predicts expected deaths and h...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/kxtrGTKuUn8   A University of Houston spinoff company has developed a nasal spray that triggers robust CoVid antibodies and cellular immunity while being storable without freezing for up to 11 months.   The vaccine has two components: spike protein and a nanoparticle adjuvant called nanoSTING.   The components are stored separately with the nanoSTING refrigerated and...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/GnDzgK4N5jM It’s not just the football team that gets overheated.   The marching band, wearing heavy wool uniforms, is particularly susceptible to heat-related disease.   This according to an analysis by investigators at the Universities of Georgia, South Carolina, and Kansas that looked at this problem over a 31 year period using a newspaper report database.   Of the 3...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/R0QnOSnV81s   From the CDC comes the latest comparison of our current CoVid vaccines in terms of ability to keep the average Jane or Joe without any medical issues out of the hospital.   Once again, Moderna come out on top.   A multi-center study of 1682 vaccinated persons 16 yrs or older and 2007 controls shows that, between March and August of this year, the Moderna...

M   Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/i00NgHL9wzo   Today’s newly announced medical discoveries that point to future therapy: Microspheres improve female fertility Promising new therapy for MRSA infections Nanoparticles as long-term disinfectants Your nose could fix your knee Shirts that monitor your heart   Some women cannot conceive because the walls of their uteruses are too thin to permit embryo att...

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  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/gcWlSP8UEIY   The FDA and Dole Fresh Vegetables are recalling Dole Curly Leaf Parsley.   This product contains Shiga-toxin producing E. coli .   Involved is product with harvest dates of August 18 and 19 2021 and distributed in FL, IA, MI, MN, and MO.   Affected bunches of parsley have a PLU number of 4899 and a UPC code of 0 3383 80330 0.   If you have this Dole Pars...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/bruRpGamo-A   The FDA and McKee Foods now recall Little Debbie Mini Nutty Buddy Cookie Bites sandwich cookies.   These cookies contain undeclared pecans.   Those with a pecan allergy may develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions should they ingest these cookies.   The affected cookies have best-by dates of Dec. 24 and 25, 2021 and were sold in Kentucky,...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/OM-RycbePTk   The FDA and Seviroli Foods Inc. are recalling H-E-B Jumbo Stuffed Shells.   This product contains contaminating fragments of metal that could cause physical damage to the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract tissues.   This product was sold by H-E-B stores in Texas.   Do not consume this product but return it to the place of purchase for a refund or...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Ae4be2dB9ck   The FDA and Velvet Ice Cream have recalled Velvet Raspberry Fudge Cordial Ice Cream.   This produce contains undeclared peanut.   Those with a peanut allergy may develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions should they ingest this ice cream.   If you bought this ice cream, dispose of it immediately or return it to the place of purchase for a r...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/pO7MklirgMU   The FDA and Buurma Farms are recalling Buurma Plain Flat Leaf Parsley.   This product may contain E. Coli that produces Shiga toxin.   This bacterium causes a foodborne gastroenteritis heralded by stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea and it particularly dangerous in the very young, elders, and those with immunosuppression.   This parsley has be...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/M4P2CjRRimQ   The CPSC and Juratoys US now recall Janod Children’s Shaving Kits.   The brown trim on these shaving kit bags contains unacceptably dangerous levels of phthalate.   This chemical in plastic is toxic if ingested by young children.   These shaving kits have been sold by Nordstrom, Crate and Barrel, and Barnes and Noble stores nationwide as well as other to...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/n3ohwpRjhqU   The CPSC and Burley have recalled Ballz QR Skewers.   This rod connects the Coho XC Cargo trailer to a bicycle, and it may bend or shear.   Should this occur, the trailer and the bicycle towing it will become unstable, the rider may fall and sustain an injury, and the bicycle-trailer ensemble may injure a bystander.   About 2,935 of these skewers were so...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/FWznwbvaWrw   The CPSC and Wiggle Ltd have recalled VITUS 14 and VITUS 16 Kids Bikes.   These bicycles have only front and rear handbrakes.   Federal regulations require children’s bicycles to be equipped with both handbrakes and footbrakes since younger children may be unable to stop the bike with handbrakes alone.   About 280 of these bicycles were sold online at wi...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/xvLHkLWjvnw   The CPSC and Costco along with Ivena are recalling their teak shower benches.   This shower bench may collapse during use triggering falls and injuries.   About 70,000 of these benches were sold in the US and 11,317 were sold in Canada all by Costco stores and online at Costco.com.   Immediately discontinue use of this bench and return it to any Costco s...

  Vid: https://youtu.be/tqYjkt-KQ9w   The CPSC and Gas One have recalled Gas One propane adapter hoses.   The hose may swell while in use leading to propane gas leakage and possible fires. About 19,500 of these hoses were sold online at amazon.com , ebay.com , gasone.com , homedepot.com and walmart.com.   If you have one of these hoses, immediately stop using it and contact Gas One by phone at 1-...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/HofDg7gyG14   CoVid infection risk dropped more than 11 fold for those who received a third, boosting dose of CoVid vaccine.   Israeli researchers studied 1,144,690 persons over the age of 60 boosted with a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine and compared the incidence and severity of their CoVid infections with those occurring in a non-boosted population of 4 million.  ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/tTmjDS-xJr4   Vaccination with the Moderna CoVid vaccine triggers more IgA anti-CoVid antibodies and anti-CoVid killer T cells compared with the Pfizer vaccine.   Researchers at Harvard and MIT studied the immune responses of 73 vaccine recipients including 28 who received the Moderna vaccine and 45 who received the Pfizer vaccine.   Analysis of the immune responses t...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/8YtIcbsg2ls   Seventy-two percent of adults and parents of children with food allergies are unaware that oral immunotherapy is an effective, painless, and convenient alternative to allergy shots.   This the conclusion of a nationwide survey of some 781 respondents conducted by pediatric researchers at Northwestern University and Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital.  ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/vBtj9iV8pSA   At the end of August, the World Health Organization announced another variant of interest, classified at B.1.621 and commonly known as the Mu variant.   This variant encompasses a constellation of mutations that could render it more impervious to the anti-CoVid antibodies generated by our current vaccine.   Early data suggests that its vaccine resistance...