Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/UefGWF66_pQ   The FDA and the Keswick Creamery are recalling the following cheese varieties: Calverley Cheese, Vulkwin’s Folly Cheese, Vermeer Cheese, Havarti Cheese, Wallaby Cheese, Cider Washed Tomme Cheese, Feta Cheese, Whole Milk Ricotta, Bovre Cheese (plain, oregano and garlic, herbes de provence, cranberry and honey) and Quark Cheese (plain, dill and onion).   T...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wewSaOS_ubc   The FDA and Tai Phat Wholesalers, LLC are recalling Three Golden Coins Dried   Whole or Sliced Mushrooms.   These mushrooms are contaminated with salmonella.   This bacterium causes a severe gastroenteritis that may progress into a life-threatening systemic infection in the very young, older frail individuals, and those with weakened immune systems.   Th...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/21MSxxnSMDk   The CPSC and the Snow Joe company are recalling Sun Joe Cordless Lawn Mowers models 24V-X2-17LM and 24V-X2-17LM-CT.   These mowers have loose blades that may fly off and create laceration hazards for the operator or bystanders.   About 26,300 of these mowers were sold in the US and about 350 were sold in Canada.   Do not use these mowers until you have c...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6OxBqzmAxwg   The CPSC and HomeGoods are recalling Novogratz brand Outdoor Metal Hanging Chairs.   This chair may tip over or the chair’s suspension chain may break leading to the occupant falling and sustain injuries.   About 5,000 chairs were sold in the US and about 194 chairs were sold in Canada at xHomeGoods and Homesense stores and HomeGoods/T.J. Maxx or Marshal...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/35P8OShcV60   The CPSC and UPPAbaby have recalled all UPPAbaby All-Terrain RIDGE Jogging Strollers.   The rear disc brakes on this stroller have openings that can amputate a non-occupant child’s fingers should they get caught while the stroller is moving.   About 14,400 strollers were sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids and other children’s...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5CkPdPIqDd8   The CPSC and Yuboloo have recalled Yuboloo Infant Bath Seats.   This product fails to meet federal safety standards for infant bath seats as it is unstable, has unsafe leg openings, and is prone to tipping over creating a drowning hazard for babies.   About 1,050 of   these bath seats were sold online at amazon.com.   Do not bathe your infant in these ba...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/J5C8UG9ZxzI   The CPSC and Kolan are recalling Otter MOMO Children’s Sandals.   The inner layer of these sandals contains lead levels higher than that allowable by federal safety standards.   Lead is a neurotoxin and a danger to the developing brains of children.   About 100 pairs of these sandals were sold online at amazon.com.   Immediately stop your children from w...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/VkvPO5zGP18   Several days ago I reported that the Moderna Omicron Booster slated to be approved by the FDA and then the CDC for distributed was their bivalent mRNA 1273.214 vaccine. This vaccine contains mRNA that would encode for the original CoVid strain and the Omicron B.1 subvariant.   This vaccine had been tested in a human clinical trail.   It turns out that ju...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/AXWjRYyHl_g   Persistent CoVid symptoms are keeping over 4 million Americans from their jobs.   This according to a Brookings Institution study that finds nearly 16 million persons 18 to 65 years of age have Long CoVid and lose from $170-230 billion in lost wages each year.   This disease takes a big bite out of Americans’ discretionary income as well as US economic p...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/bucm185TEvk   The latest helmet from India’s Shellios Technolabs filters the air that the wearer breathes via a HEPA filter and battery operated air handling system located at the back of the helmet so as to not obstruct the rider’s vision.   It provides clean, pollution-free air just behind the helmet’s clear visor and it rids of air of 80% of otherwise inhaled toxin...

    Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/fy0jzs0mCFI   Over the past 15 years, Medicare Advantage membership has increased 2.5 fold.   Now, 48% of Medicare is delivered through the HMO-like Advantage programs vs. traditional fee-for-service Medicare.   The shift from Classic to Advantage Medicare has been escalating in the past 2 years with 8-10% of subscribers shifting per year.   The vast majority of mem...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/q_phfosci4Q   This tech giant has announced that its Google Maps will now label healthcare facilities that are verified as offering reproductive services to women as “provides abortions” and those so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” that do not as “might not provide abortions.”   A Bloomberg News study showed that online searches by women seeking abortion services of...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/M9RmHgFuiLw   In the future, your electric toothbrushes and waterflossers may be obsolete.   Precision dentistry researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a nano robotic system using iron oxide nanoparticles that can be assembled into bristles and motorized by computer-controlled magnetic fields to roll over your teeth and gums and remove all debris...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/BuTi67hB7HY   The biomedical researchers at Georgia State University have designed a universal flu vaccine containing less variable proteins from both Influenza A and B virus including the multi-neuraminidase proteins and the universally present M2 ectodomain protein.   This vaccine has, to date, only been tested on mice but it was found to protect them from infection...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Q4BqJZxSoQg   We all view most viruses as “bad guys” as we go through our 3 rd year trying to avoid and survive CoVid.   Some viruses known as oncolytic viruses are “good guys” that can turbocharge the immune system to more effectively kill cancer cells that spread and threaten to kill us.   Immunologists at North Carolina’s Wake Forest School of Medicine and the Univ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/yfZYkQtd1V8   The inhaled vapors from electronic cigarettes significantly increase the numbers of the ACE2 CoVid-binding sites and the TMPRSS2 protease that helps the virus infect human cells.   UC-Riverside molecular biologists report these worrisome findings following their assessment of the effects from genuine JUUL aerosols as well of the individual aerosol compon...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/tG60v5wIJk0   To better understand this rapidly spreading disease, French infectious disease researchers reviewed the records of 264 PCR-confirmed monkeypox patients.   99% were men with a median age of 35 years, 29% were HIV-positive, 71% were taking PrEP, and 11% were smallpox-vaccinated.   In 53%, there were no symptoms such as fever or lymph node swelling prior to...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6DAezBcY28c   High dose flu vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalization by 64% and the risk of death by 49% for older persons.   From the University of Copenhagen comes this study of 12,477 participants.   Half received the high dose vaccine containing 4 times the dose of each flu antigen.   The other half served as controls and received the standard dose vaccine.   P...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/01gypflxR3M   The reactivated poliovirus that first spread from Israel to upstate New York State’s Rockland and then Orange Counties, has now spread to the adjacent Sullivan County.   No surprise, since the virus was already been detected downstate in the New York City’s wastewater systems.   Many people contract the poliovirus without becoming symptomatic, but, once...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/-pfL3WYF3cI   When home antigen tests for CoVid were first FDA approved, many of them had expiration dates in 4 to 6 months.   As additional shelf life data has been accumulated, the FDA has extended those expirations dates in some cases to one year or as long as 18 months.   Problem is: the expiration date extension situation is different for each test kit brand and...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/XVIrDcxqcms   When persons who survived a heart attack take a daily triple agent polypill, their risk of a second heart attack, stent placement or revascularization surgery, or stroke drops by 24% and their risk of death drops by 33%.   Cardiac researchers from New York’s Mt. Sinai School of Medicine just reported these results in the New England Journal and presented...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/UcfaUTBHshM   Omicron BA.5 is now beginning to wane, and we’re breathing a collective sigh of relief.   Some bad news comes from Japan which is characterizing the next likely variant BA.2.75.   India was the site where BA.2.75 first popped up last spring and quickly eclipsed the BA.5 subvariant there. BA.2.75 is more transmissible than even BA.5 and has been detected...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/874VfupQy_I   Pfizer has developed two Omicron-targeting boosters: one is their Omicron BA.1 adapted vaccine and the other is their Omicron BA.4/BA.5 adapted vaccine.   The former has been tested in humans while the latter has only been tested in mice and human studies are expected to begin soon.   Pfizer has applied to the FDA and the European Medicines Agency for EU...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5ZPn2thh3yw   The CoVid Omicron booster that Moderna will release in the fall, called mRNA1273.214, is a bivalent shot containing mRNA that triggers production of antigen from the original CoVid and antigen from the B1.1.529 Omicron sub variant.   This from data the company has submitted to the FDA for an EUA to cover use in those 12 years and older.   A 4 th dose usi...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/iPOs3UxmnVI   The FDA and Epicurean Butter LLC are recalling Wegman’s Lemon Dill Finishing Butter.   This product is contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes with an origin in the frozen dill from SupHerb Farms.   Listeria may cause a serious or life-threatening infection in the very young, older and frail persons, or in those with weak immune systems.   The bacterium...