Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Ghlw9p02c-c   The FDA and Ferrero USA, Inc.are recalling Kinder Happy Moments Milk Chocolate and Crispy Wafers Assortments & Mix Chocolate Treats Baskets.   These products are contaminated with salmonella.   This bacterium can cause serious and life-threatening infections in the very young, elders, and in those with a suboptimal immune response.   If you purchased the...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/XO7Zs_avJDM   The CPSC and Stokke now recall Clikk High Chairs.   The white plastic seats on these units may break creating a risk of fall and injury hazards to those children using them.   About 790 units were sold in the US and 48 were sold in Canada at Target, Buy Buy Baby, and other children’s stores nationwide and online at www.stokke.com and www.amazon.com.   If...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/jtJXptWBhMw   The CPSC and Bestar are now recalling Bestar Wall Beds.   These Murphy-style beds may detach from the wall and come crashing down on those nearby leading to serious crush injuries or death.   The models involved in the recall include: the Nebula, PUR, Versatile, Edge, Cielo, Audrea, Lumina, Orion, and the Novello Full and Queen Wall Beds.   About 129,000...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/WLLraWCVLIY   The CPSC and the Madar Corporation are recalling biOrigins Sodium Hydroxide Product.   This product contains the caustic lye sodium hydroxide and must be sold in child-resistant packaging in order to prevent the possibility of chemical burns of the skin, eyes, and, if ingested, the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract.   Thirty packages of this extr...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/V395dwF4DTs   Short Shorts are quickie reports about cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries.   They’re worth knowing about this 2nd week of April, 2022.   CAR-T chimeric antigen receptors have proven effective immunotherapy for blood system cancers such as leukemias.   They haven’t worked as well on solid tumors.   Now a Dutch research group working with BioN...

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  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/o4APXIok6vw   Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic.   They’re worth knowing about now during the 1st week of April, 2022.     In order to improve the chances for couples with infertility problems, a new microfluidic chip developed at Florida Atlantic University effectively separates the olympic swimmers from t...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/dWtOmzRWZHQ   Vaccinated and boosted individuals suffering an Omicron breakthrough infection generate a broad and powerful immune response not only to Omicron but also to other variants.   This from a collaborative group of German virologists including those at BioNTech, the creators of the current Pfizer CoVid vaccine.   The researchers studied blood from a biobank t...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/PgFTKpzpzdg   The survival of actively-treated very premature infants born at 22 to 23 weeks of gestation rose by a factor of 3 when you compare the recent results with those 6 years earlier.   This heartening statistic is the conclusion of a collaborative study from the 129 academic medical centers that compose the NIH Neonatal Research Network.   Led by University of...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/yYmS5vid8Q4   Pregnant women who use marijuana in its various forms give birth to babies who, at nearly 5 years of age, are 8 times fatter than the offspring of non-users.   Epidemiologists at the University of Texas and the Colorado School of Public Health studied 193 mothers whom they tested for serum cannabis metabolites during their pregnancies and their offspring...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/FsMAasSuz5o   If you’re a woman worried about post-menopausal bone loss, you may just want to stock up on boxes of prunes.   Penn State nutritionists now publish a meta-analysis of clinical and laboratory studies that demonstrate and explain the bone-sparing powers of the lowly prune.   Sixteen pre-clinical studies in rodents demonstrate that prunes and the polyphenol...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/rr4hxBeyJj0   The highly contagious OmicronBA2 subvariant that is taking over everywhere has lead to a surge of hospitalizations in Great Britain that is more than 3 times greater than that seen with the original CoVid strain, higher than that due to the British alpha CoVid variant pre-vaccine, and more than twice as high as that with Delta in the CoVid vaccine era.  ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6vv46n7lbPg   Those who wear eyeglasses have a 15% lower odds of becoming infected with CoVid.   This from a study by infectious disease researchers at University College London that surveyed some 19,166 persons between June, 2020 and February, 2022.   A few more than 71% regularly wore corrective lenses.   Information regarding CoVid infection was assembled from nati...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ZAX16cgT4Mg   The FDA and Liberty Fruit Co. Inc. have recalled Carol’s Cuts Fruit Trays Containing Cantaloupe.   These fruit trays are contaminated with salmonella.   This bacterium causes serious and life-threatening infections particularly in the very young, elders, and in those with impair immunity.   These products were sold in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska....

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/rUAAdx9JP3g   The FDA and Skippy Foods, LLC now recall Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy and Chunky Peanut Butters.   Some jars may contain a small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of processing equipment.   These foreign bodies, if ingested, could create lacerations and perforations of the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract linings.   If you have these product...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5t1OJUYn3F4   The FDA and Unilevel US are recalling Suave Aerosol Antiperspirants, both Fresh and Powder.   These products have propellants contaminated with elevated levels of benzene.   Benzene is known to be a human carcinogen.   This product line was discontinued in October 2021, but consumers have still have product on their shelves.   If you do, discontinue use...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/v9D-wSMclb8   The FDA and Giant Eagle have recalled Giant Eagle Happy Faced Cookies sold at 2 Giant Eagle bakeries in Geneva and Ashtabula Ohio.   These likely contain undeclared milk allergens.   Those with a milk allergy could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction to these cookies.   If you bought happy face cookies at either of these locations, re...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/fanq1AEgKdw   The FDA and   Pink Toyz are recalling Pink Toyz Pink Pussycat Capsules 3000 mg.   These over-the-counter love enhancement capsules are contaminated with the phosphodiesterase sildenafil rendering it an unapproved drug with unknown safety or efficacy. This prescription drug may interfere with nitrate containing drugs such as nitroglycerin causing a danger...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/QWyLA6rgXyw   The FDA and Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc. are recalling Mickey Mouse and The Mandalorian Hand Sanitizers - Ethyl Alcohol 68%.   The Mickey Mouse sanitizer lot # 20D21 is contaminated with methanol and the Mandalorian sanitizer lot numbers 20E21 is contaminated with benzene.   The methanol is a neurotoxin and the benzene is a carcinogen.   If you ha...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/hHVOojpQvFA   The FDA and B&G Foods announce a recall on Back to Nature Cheddalicious   Cheese Flavored Crackers.   A number of the cracker boxes were inadvertently filled with animal-shaped crackers that contain egg and milk and these allergens that are not declared on the box labels.   Those with egg or milk allergies could develop serious or life-threatening allerg...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/QuMQnajEmVw   The CPSC and Maped Helix USA are recalling Helix Metal Lockable Drug Chests.   The locking mechanism of this product may fail permitting unauthorized access to the contents with a risk of poisoning particularly for children.   About 7700 of these chests were sold at Educators Resource and Court Street Office Supplies stores nationwide and online at www.a...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/FipAX6FHqHY   The CPSC and Universal Security Instruments are recalling the USI 2-in-1 Photoelectric Smoke & Fire + Carbon Monoxide Alarms.   These alarms may fail to alert your household or office that a hazardous level of carbon monoxide has been detected risking carbon monoxide poisoning or death.   About 8,000 of these dual alarms have been sold by electrical dist...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Xz1wqbmZFWI   The CPSC and Soundbox now recall SOUNDBOKS (Gen. 3) Bluetooth Speakers with Lithium-Ion Batteries.   The lithium ion battery in these speakers may overheat and create a burn and fire hazard.   About 6700 of these speakers were sold online at SOUNDBOKS.com, Amazon.com, and DJ Tech Tools.com.   Immediately stop using these speakers, remove the Batteryboks...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/WBpQwkMhwsg   The CPSC and Playmonster are recalling Kid O Hudson Glow Rattles.   The legs on these rattles may break off and create a choking and asphyxiation hazard for young children.   About 8900 of these rattles were sold in the US and about 200 were sold in Canada at specialty stores and online at amazon.com, walmart.com, playmonster.com, and zulily.com.   Take...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cNvg0v8TKdo   The FDA and Wilton Industries Inc. are recalling Wilton Ready to Build Chocolate Cookie Bunny Hutch Kits.   These kits have a “Contains” statement that fails to mention milk as required by law.   But wait…. The ingredient list on the package does list “skim milk powder” so this recall only amounts to some regulatory nitpicking.   These kits are an Easter...