Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/bMaQraJBJI0   Looking at long wave deep red light only once a week for only 3 minutes may increase color vision by as much as 20%.   This startling finding was just announced by ophthalmologists at University College London after their small study of 20 subjects without any known eye disease.   Each participant used an LED device that emits red light at a 670 nm wavel...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/oOUfv-qZeQ4   A severe CoVid infection is nearly 20 times more likely for unvaccinated than vaccinated police personnel and 5 times more likely for unvaccinated firefighters.   Once infected with CoVid, these first responders are sick for 2 to 3 weeks and miss up to 7 weeks of work.   These troubling statistics are just some of the conclusions of a collaborative study...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/SxOANS2RUhs   Unvaccinated persons cause up to 90% of all new CoVid infections.   This the conclusion of a German mathematical modeling study seeking to understand the huge uptick in CoVid infections since October that is clogging German hospitals and driving consideration of lockdowns.   The German mathematicians calculated that two-thirds to as many as three-quarter...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Na8mKpi7N9Q   The FDA and The Spice House are recalling the Spice House Sichuan Chili BBQ Rub.   This product contains undeclared sesame.   Those allergic to sesame could develop a serious allergic reaction if they ingest this rub.   If you bought this product, dispose or it and contact The Spice House by email at support@thespicehouse.com to arrange a refund.   https...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/KsQhYLK2-58   The FDA and TaDah! Foods are recalling TaDah! Spicy Brown Sugar Harissa Hummus Wraps.   This hummus contains undeclared milk allergen.   Those with a milk allergy can develop a serious or possibly life-threatening allergic reaction.   If you purchased these products, contact TaDah! Foods by phone at   1-571-335-1635 to get a full refund or replacement.  ...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/4whDUz4S64c   The FDA and Kraft-Heinz are recalling multiple powdered beverages including: Country Time Lemonade, Tang, Arizona Tea, and some Kool-Aid.   These beverage packages have very small pieces of glass and metal.   If you have any of these products, return them to the place of purchase or destroy them.   For more information about the specific products involve...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/o9vW-kIO07Q   The FDA and the Proctor & Gamble Co. have recalled Old Spice and Secret Aerosol Spray Antiperspirants and Old Spice Below Deck Aerosol Spray Products. The affected products include: Old Spice High Endurance AP Spray Pure Sport, Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray, Old Spice Below Deck Powder Spray, Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh, Secret Fre...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/F0uHaSyNJ7g   The FDA and Fischer and Wieser Specialty Foods are recalling H-E-B Tomato Basil Soup.   This product has glass foreign bodies in its jars.   The involved lot is 22871 with a best buy date of 10/14/22.   If you bought this product, do not consume it.   Return it to the point of purchase for a refund.   For additional information, call Fischer and Wieser S...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/sHOo1JWbd4E   The FDA and JFC International Inc are recalling Wel-Pac Shrimp Powdered Soup Stock.   This product contains undeclared fish including sardine, tuna, and bonito.   If ingested by a person with allergies to any or all of these fish, the product could trigger a serious or fatal allergic reaction.   If you have this soup stock, do not use or consume it, and...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/-fBMRZVjgn4   The FDA and the Flagship Food Group are recalling TJ Farms Select Frozen Cauliflower.   This product is contaminated with listeria monocytogenes.   Listeria triggers a severe and sometimes life-threatening infection in the very young, older individuals, and in those with immunosuppression.   This cauliflower was sold in   Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wis...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/adpqpdelZ_o   The FDA and Conagra Brands, Inc. are recalling Birds Eye Broccoli Tots.   Packages of this product contain small rocks and metal fragments.   The contaminated batches have best buy dates of 8/11/22, 8/12/22, 8/19/22, 8/25/22, 11/10/22, and 11/17/22.   If you bought one of these packages, return it to the point of purchase for a refund.   For more informa...

Impex Olympic Dumbbell Handles on Recall Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/vYBzIQT-KVU   The CPSC and Impex Fitness are recalling Impex Olympic Dumbbell Handles.   The locking collars on these dumbbell handles may slip leading to dropped weights if the dumbbell is held perpendicular to the floor and this creates an injury hazard to the user or bystanders.   About 77,200 of these dumbbell handles were so...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/YdhbISztvJE   When vaccinated persons develop a case of breakthrough CoVid they have a 59% higher risk of developing at least one manifestation of long CoVid, usually lung disease, compared with individuals who never developed a CoVid infection.   Worse still, those with breakthrough CoVid have a 53% higher risk of unexpected death compared with the uninfected.   Acco...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/7jNYQZuoijs   Persons simultaneously receiving CoVid boosters with the Moderna mRNA vaccine and the high dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine developed the same robust immune responses to the vaccines as those receiving only one vaccine at a time and showed no evidence of increased adverse reactions to the piggy-backed vaccinations.   This the data from an ongoing Phas...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/06uzDxH7z6U   Hospitalized CoVid patients are 28% less likely to die of the disease if they are taking fluoxetine, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, SSRI, best known as Prozac and prescribed for clinical depression.   A study from UC-San Francisco analyzed the data from 83,584 patients diagnosed with CoVid of whom 3,401 were on an SSRI.   The researchers com...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/05Otlnb0Uss   Boosting 100,000 older Americans with the Pfizer vaccine will cost $3.4 million but save twice that amount in ultimate medical costs over a 6 month period. Researchers in China and at New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical School developed a computer model to assess the cost-effectiveness of boosting the CoVid immunity 6 months following the second dose of the Pfi...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/yybyuta-738   Repeated shots of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail REGEN-COV reduced the risk of a CoVid infection by 92.4% for unvaccinated persons.   Regeneron-sponsored doubled-blinded, placebo controlled trials in Texas and Ohio studied 969 uninfected and unvaccinated subjects receiving 6 monthly shots of antibody compared with a control group of 240 subjects receiving...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/7jhOt9TyQXs   CoVid patients who received even one dose of an FDA-approved CoVid vaccine within a month of their CoVid diagnosis are more than 5 times less likely than an unvaccinated person to develop multiple symptoms of the dreaded long CoVid.   Researchers at the Massachusetts health think tanks Arcadia and MITRE studied 1,065,626 CoVid patients.   Analysis of the...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/gV9UXQwKvkw   If you can’t seem to please your boss, the problem, dear Brutus, is not in your stars but in your commute.   A just published Dartmouth study tracked 275 information technology workers using their smartphones and wearables to quantify the characteristics of their commutes and their bodily reactions to them.   Their HR records served to determine their wo...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/3GA51tTaZ5w   When infection occurs post-operatively, a timely selfie of the operative incision is nearly 4 times more likely to prevent a delayed diagnosis.   University of Edinburgh surgeons proved this point with the study of 233 surgical patients following their operations.   Each patient was contacted on days 3, 7, and 15 post-operatively, questioned about how th...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/CEyPIeppXU8   Ever more frequent heat waves promise deadly heart strain and an epidemic of heart failure.   These warnings come from a   Montreal Heart Institute review of the consequences of extreme heat events.   Even beyond heat stroke with its dangerously high body temperatures, confusion, nausea and vomiting, environmental temperatures in the 100’s put a dangerou...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/m6WrN3AXJGc   The FDA and the Spice ’n More Corporation are now recalling additional Salma and Casablanca Curry products including Salma Natural Curry Powder, Salma Natural Jamaican Curry Powder, Casablanca Natural Spices Curry Powder, and Casablanca Natural Spices Curry Jamaican.   These products contain undeclared peanuts.   If eaten by those with a peanut allergy,...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cb13UoFD-h4   The FDA and Odor Eaters now recall all Odor Eaters spray products.   Multiple lots of Odor Eaters spray powder and Stink Stoppers spray contain dangerous amounts of the solvent benzene.   Benzene is a human carcinogen and may cause leukemia, bone marrow cancers, and other blood disorders if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin.   If you bough...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/tcdBVvjVvfI   The FDA and Mountain Meadow Herbs are recalling Mountain Meadow Herbs brand Candida Flush, Lot# 0120011Q.   Bottles from this lot have become pressurized, and, when opened, may explode spewing air and portions of capsules and their powder contents.   This product was sold in Product was sold directly to consumers in Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/GaehbizpQ9A   The FDA and Cargil are recalling Wilbur Dark Chocolate Triple Covered Malted Milk Balls.   This candy contains undeclared peanuts.   If eaten by those with a peanut allergy, these malted milk balls may trigger a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction.   About 469 one pound bags of this candy were sold at the Wilbur Chocolate Store in Lititz, PA an...