Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/48pmpgR0k48 The FDA and the Fresh Ideation Food Group LLC now recall Fresh Creative Cuisine Ready to Eat Sandwiches, Pastries, Fresh Fruit, Bowls, Parfaits, Salads, Yogurt, and Wraps. All these more than 400 products are contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, This bacteria causes serious and life-threatening infections in the very young, in older, frail individuals, an...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/19GDJQdB_m8 The FDA and Daiso California LLC are recalling Daiso Powdered Apple tea, Potato Crackers, Chocolate Chip Cookies & Orange Chocolate Candy, and Gummy Grape Candies. These products contain undeclared soybean and milk allergens. Those with allergies to soybeans, milk, or both could develop serious or life-threatening allergic reactions should they ingest these fo...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/OUMljci35H4 The FDA and Titans Global Inc are recalling JSJ Chocolate Cakes, JSJ ZSR Cakes, snd JSJ DMC Leaf Cakes. These baked goods all contain undeclared egg. The affected lot is #20221108B. These cakes were sold in California. For a refund, return the cakes to the store where you bought them. More info: 1-818-477-8888. https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdra...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/VKTX5-f5-II The FDA and Pilgrim’s Roasted Nut’ Z are recalling Chocolate Toffee Almonds, Crème Brulee Cashews, Tri-Color Chocolate Expresso Bean, English Toffee Peanuts, Various Hazelnuts, Squirrel Mix, and White Chocolate Raspberry Cashews. These products contain undeclared milk, soy, and/or walnuts. The products were sold on the West Coast states. Don’t consume these pr...

Purina Veterinary Diets EL Elemental Dry Dog Food Has Too much Vitamin D Vidcast: https://youtu.be/xzTumWa4xHY The FDA and the Nestlé Purina PetCare Company are recalling Purina Veterinary Diets EL Elemental Dry Dog Food. This product contains elevated levels of Vitamin D. Vitamin D toxicity in dogs is manifest by vomiting, loss of appetite, increased thirst, increased urination, and excessive dro...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/lkdBBNG4M9E The CPSC and Paper Cape are recalling Paper Cape Children’s Pajamas. These garments do not meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepware. About 5,720 pairs of PJs were sold online at papercape.com and at various children’s boutiques nationwide. Take these robes away from your children and contact Paper Cape at 1-415-545-8087 or via email at reca...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2AMuC64FdAk The CPSC and Amazon are recalling Children’s Robes manufactured by 4 different Chinese manufacturers. All of these garments fail to meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear thereby posing risks of burn injuries. A total of 10,350 robes were sold by Amazon. Take these robes away from your children and contact Amazon or the manufacturer of th...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/9zbTpp6Jvps The CPSC and Colgate-Palmolive are recalling Fabuloso Multi-Purpose Cleaners. These products are contaminated with two species of the pseudomonas bacteria. Those with weak immune systems, implanted medical devices, and lung disease are particularly at risk. About 4.9 million bottles were sold in the US and about 56,000 were sold in Canada online at Amazon and...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/oeWzayxNPj4 Cardiac surgeons at the Boston Children’s Hospital in collaboration with MIT bioengineers developed the first prosthetic pulmonary valve replacement that can expand as a child’s anatomy dictates. The so-called Autus Valve is now undergoing clinical testing in children ages 2 to 11 at Boston Children’s, Ohio’s Nationwide Children’s, and New York’s Columbia Pres...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/QJGy4Zy1_mw Johns Hopkins public health researchers find that the prescription medications most prominently advertised on TV have low added benefit in the treatment of diseases they target. A full two-thirds of the 135 drugs most frequently pitched on TV, radio, newspaper, internet, and billboard advertising were typically not the first choices of mainstream clinicians. T...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2WKn8bICS6g The aptly named hormone kisspeptin seems like a good candidate for treating women as well as men with pathologically low sex drives. Imperial College London endocrinologists now report this conclusion stemming from two separate studies. Using data from MR imaging as well as blood tests, they found that kisspeptin administration enhances responses to sexual sti...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/U5HtbrPVoXY Swiss biomedical researchers have discovered that prostate cancers require the enzyme PI5P4K for survival. This enzyme, a lipid kinase, is critical for androgen receptor signaling and prostate cancer viability and progression. The researchers suggest targeting this enzymatic system as therapy for the eradication and possible prevention of prostatic cancer. It’...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/V39oAC8HTaU The intensity of physical exercise is directly related to the level of attentiveness for adolescent girls. This according to a study of 418 teens, mean age 16 years conducted by neuroscientists at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Exercise intensity did not affect working memory or executive functions. Here’s the hitch: intense exercise had no such beneficial...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/5kIN5UUmDWQ Listening to music you love lowers your pain threshold. Dutch anesthesia-pain researchers studied the perception of pressure- and electrically-induced pain in 415 subjects. Tolerance for both types of pain was better for those listening to their preferred brands of music rather than music they found annoying. One odd finding: listening to music you hate prior...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Bg2GncfZ_PU The incidence of pertussis, whooping cough, in babies over 6 months of age was cut over 60% after pregnant women began to be consistently vaccinated with the triple vaccine, TDap, that protects against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis. The CDC now reports this result after analyzing more than 57,000 cases of whooping cough over 20 years. Whooping cough can b...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/BwkOnXPH5iA A full 60% of patients treated for various cancers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas have developed long CoVid symptoms. Compare that to the national average for long CoVid as of December 2022 which, according to the CDC, is about 15%. The researchers surveyed 312 cancer patients and also found that female cancer patients had a higher incidence than males...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/C8ZsNqt8hkM A giant Australian study of nearly half million children ages 4 to 6 years shows that those conceived using in-vitro fertilization techniques enjoy developmental and educational outcomes statistically equal to those of children naturally conceived. This is comforting news indeed for the parents of some 8 million children worldwide who have been brought into th...

Complete narratives and references may be found at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/feb-2nd-week-health-news-23 Vidcast: https://youtu.be/8xieI4V9lDU ========================== Health REPORT Highlights: Making Teens More attentive Preventing Whooping Cough in Newborns Future therapy for low sex drive A pediatric heart valve that can grow with a child ========================== #ivf #development #cog...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/z8eAE8M0ZRM The FDA and the Edgewell Personal Care Company have expanded the recall of the Banana Boat Hair & Scalp Sunscreen Spray SPF 30 by adding an additional batch to those in the recall announced in July of 2022. This product contains the human carcinogen benzene in the propellent used to deliver the sunscreen. The 4 lot codes involved are: 20016AF, 20084BF, 211...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/rhxuKj6dwmQ The FDA and Joy Joy’s Bakery are recalling Ube Spanish Bread, Ube Ensaymada, and Ube Rolls. These baked goods contain undeclared wheat. Those with wheat sensitivities, gluten allergies, or celiac disease could become seriously ill should they consume these baked goods. These products were sold at Joy Joy’s Bakery in Lakewood, Washington and Fubonn Supermarket...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2FTtt1cB6ng The FDA and Sovos Brands Intermediate, Inc. are recalling Rao’s Made for Home Slow Simmered Soup, Chicken & Gnocchi. It turns out that the Chicken and Gnocchi cans actually contain Vegetable Minestrone soup which contains egg. Those with egg allergies could develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions should they consume this soup. Only soup wit...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/lzdFa4PCMoo The FDA and Daiso California LLC announce the recall of Matsunaga Mini Shiruko Sand Biscuits. These pastries have undeclared soy ingredients and were sold in Daiso stores in California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. If you purchased these biscuits, return them to any Daiso store for a full refund. For additional information, contact Dais...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/WlRxs0mrSf0 The FDA and Two Rivers Coffee are recalling single serve hot cocoa pods sold in Two Rivers Coffee, Brooklyn Bean, and Pingo variety packs. These pods are contaminated with peanut allergen. Those with peanut allergies could develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions. Affected are all pods manufactured before January 23, 2023. If you bought any of t...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2o9l4pQ95EQ Use of 3D bioprinting can produce faux-human skin with remarkably similar anatomic features to the real thing. That’s a relief to rabbits who traditionally had their eyes and ears subjected to pre-marketing tests of cosmetics destined for human use. A new Brazilian study compared the characteristics of bioprinted and manually-reconstructed skin. Evaluated were...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/7P4GJ-yNLMc As precision oncologic therapy advances, we are learning that many cancers respond only to a combination of chemotherapeutic agents. MIT, Harvard, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators in collaboration with the MIT spinoffs Ceptur Therapeutics and Window Therapeutics have developed unique nanoparticles shaped like bottle-brushes. These carrier molecul...