Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/WkD2-OCxmnY Three different nasal sprays, two by American university collaborators and the other by Canadian researchers, show promise new weapons against CoVid. One American entry developed by Northwestern, UWashington, and Washington University-St. Louis utilizes a computer-designed and optimized protein to coat the spikes of virtually any CoVid variant or sub variant a...

A Implantable Neural Chip Detects and Treats Seizures Vidcast: https://youtu.be/nPICqxAiVnM Teams of Swiss bioengineers have developed NeuralTree, a tiny ultralow power and energy efficient machine learning microprocessor that can be paired with a 256 channel high resolution sensing array. This implantable combo capably recognizes the electrical fingerprints that foreshadow a seizure and issues ti...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/YzwQGQEejkg Smoking before and during a pregnancy increases by 5 fold the risk that an infant will die suddenly over the months following birth. Rutgers University’s SIDS Center of New Jersey studied over one-half million white mother-child pairs and over 83,000 black mother-child pairs cataloging maternal smoking stats and the incidence of SIDS. The data shows that smoki...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/BNDUkyaGks8 Use of electronic cigarettes, compared with those containing tobacco, produces significantly more lung inflammation. This from a preliminary University of Pennsylvania study using PET imaging, that is positron emission tomography, with a novel radioactive tracer to quantitate pulmonary levels of the inflammatory enzyme nitric oxide synthetase. The investigator...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/nJPnFO3MCsE The next time you buy glitter, face paint, hair gel, nail polish, perfume, and lip gloss for your children, think poison. That’s the message from the Columbia School of Public Health. Researchers there surveyed 207 parents of 312 children 12 years or younger regarding their use of these products. A full 70% of the children used these play cosmetics with greate...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/vI_upzEONZQ The long CoVid definition, continuing symptoms for more than a month after an acute case of CoVid, was the one used by George Washington University researchers as they assessed 982 university students and 356 staff. Breaking down the numbers, 39% of students and 34% of staff developed long CoVid symptoms. Only 26% of those vaccinated and boosted were affected...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Tk1xJO_vRd8 When milk is added to coffee, it may well put a damper on destructive inflammation that turbocharged immune cells create. Food science researchers at the University of Copenhagen are investigating this possibility as they study the synergy between the anti-inflammatory agents polyphenols and protein-containing foods. Their experiments show that the anti-inflam...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/dn8vLyuR3sQ The FDA and the Almondy company are recalling Almondy Chocolate cake with Daim. A metal object has been found in cakes from batch #L2140 with a Best Before Date of NOV.18.2023. These cakes were only sold at IKEA stores. Don’t consume these cakes and return the product to the IKEA store where you made the purchase. For more information or an alternative way to...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/beg61R9bj0o The FDA and Snack Innovations, Inc. now recall certain lots of Drizzilicious Mini Rice Cake Bites and Drizzled Popcorn. These products have undeclared peanut antigens. Those with peanut allergies could develop life-threatening allergic reactions should they ingest these snacks. If you bought any of these products, do not consume them until you call Snack Innov...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/ZtwgD9zEBHo The CPSC and the Properly Tied company are recalling Properly Tied Children’s Lounge Pants. These garments fail to meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear. About 1,960 were sold at Sweet Threads, Britches and Bows, May May’s, The Carousel, Bundle of Joy, Dragonflies, Tugboat and the Bird, Lora Belle Baby, Peach Tree Kids, Hannah B's and ch...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/f7i5WDUCNbc The CPSC and the ZLINE company have extended their December, 2022 recall of the ZLINE 30 and 36 inch gas ranges to include their 48 inch gas ranges. The ovens on these ranges emit carbon monoxide at dangerous levels with risk of serious injury and death. About 30,000 of all these ranges including 2,000 48 inchers were sold at Best Buy, Lowe’s, The Home Depot,...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/OCHDha__p90 An adhesive dressing populated with hydrogel-anchored microneedles promises to revolutionize the on-site treatment of hemorrhaging wounds. UCLA bioengineers will be publishing this remarkable discovery in the May, 2023 edition of the Bioactive Materials journal. The tiny prongs jump-start blood clotting and quickly squelch the flow of blood. Testing the micron...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/g7fZjuKlmYc The Danish biotechnology company AdaptVac is developing a CoVid vaccine based on technology different than the mRNA tech used for the Moderna and Pfizer vaxes, the adenovirus vector J&J and AstraZeneca vaxes, and the protein-based Novavax offering. The AdaptVac vaccine, labeled ABNCoV2 uses a viral capsid-like particle derived from an E. coli bacteriophage...

We know that dogs can detect lung cancer, but the latest evidence from Paris suggests a diagnostic role for ants. Sorbonne animal behaviorists are reporting that ants can readily differentiate tumor-bearing mice from healthy ones by detecting tell-tale volatile organic compounds in urine. Ants lack noses but do have olfactory sensory receptors on their antennae. In the French experiments, half a g...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/F3saHuBYeEg Two separate studies give us a glimpse into the future of cardiac ultrasound, better known as echocardiography.  From UC-San Diego’s department of nanoengineering comes a wearable ultrasound imaging system that permits continuous visual assessment of the heart’s function in real time. The probe is exceedingly flexible permitting it to be gently bent, wrap...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/YV8r-_z2OXk Blood clots in the brain trigger strokes and catastrophic back bleeding. When the blockages occur, the clock is ticking. The faster blood vessels are reopened, the better the recovery prognosis. North Carolina State mechanical engineers report that vortex ultrasound, a swirling shockwave, dissolves blood clots in critical brain blood vessels faster and more ef...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/1bFzIS-FByU The infamous and now convicted Elizabeth Holmes who founded the Silicon Valley startup Theranos made the same promise and utterly failed. Now, geneticists at Stanford University, where ironically Holmes once attended college and dropped out, announce the development of so-called multi-omics technologies that really can make needle-shy patients’ wishes c...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/s7V2tMk8Org Eating those fries and donuts modifies your brain cells and they begin to whisper, “eat more and more.” Penn State neuroscience and behavioral scientists now report their mouse model studies demonstrating that a high-fat diet continuing even 3 to 5 days desensitizes the brain astrocytes. Astrocytes normally react to circulating fat and trigger appetite suppres...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/LsH8-LbT2Vk Suffering a head injury more than doubles your risk of dying at some time over a 30 year period. So say University of Pennsylvania neurologists who followed 13,037 adults, median age of 54, between 1987 and 2019. Head injuries were experienced by 18% of the group. The risk of death for this cohort was 2 twice that of the non-injured group. That risk depended u...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Gpl0vO9U9Ks Babies developing within mothers who contract Covid suffer significant bleeds within their brains in association with evidence of CoVid virus brain infiltration. Neurodevelopmental researchers at King’s College London now report their study of 661 fetal tissue samples from CoVid infected mothers and 300 tissues from uninfected mothers. The incidence of brain b...

If you received the most recent bivalent CoVid booster, know that it does not induce significant or lasting antibody protection against the currently-prevalent Omicron XBB1.5 sub-variant. The good news: the booster does trigger an increase in your cellular immunity against the virus; and it reduces by half your risk of developing a symptomatic CoVid infection. Researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/1RXQxqlsIsg   The FDA and the SkinnyDipped company are recalling SkinnyDipped Dark Chocolate Cocoa Almonds & Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Cashews.   These candies have undeclared peanuts.   Those with peanut allergies could develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions after ingesting these candies.   The dipped almonds have a Best By Date of 5/5-6/2024 and...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/77ArhPBzkFE   The CPSC and Williams-Sonoma are recalling Williams-Sonoma Hot Chocolate Pots.   These pots are mislabeled as microwave-safe but contain metallic paint that will spark and ignite if microwaved.   About 2700 of these hot chocolate pots were sold in the US and about 40 were sold in Canada at Williams-Sonoma.   If you bought these pots, contact Williams-Son...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wuzarL9bAOc The CPSC and Sakar International are recalling Credhedz Lizard Helmets, Crayola Dry Erase Helmets, and Tony Hawk Multi-Purpose Helmets.   These helmets fail to meet the federal bicycle helmet positional stability and retention system safety requirements thus creating head injury risks.   About 33,100 helmets were sold at Big Lots, Ollies Bargain Outlet and o...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/dk7BBk4AC58   The CPSC and the Selfie Craft Company are recalling Selfie Craft Children’s Pajama Sets.   These garments fail to meet federal flammability requirements for children’s sleepwear thereby creating burn risks.   About 38,740 of these garments were sold online at etsy.com, uncommongoods.com, macys.com, selfiecraft.co.uk, thetot.com, and boutiques nationwide....