Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTdoakUDaI_/ Breastfeeding within the first 4 months is associated with better emotional and behavioral stability at 4 years.  Spanish researchers studied 564 maternal-child pairs and published their results in the European Journal of Pediatrics using the standard Child Behavior Checklist. Breastfeeding for just one to four months is associated with significan...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTdnramDskj/ Social media can be a powerful tool for 21st century crowdsourcing. A collaborative study from Yale and the University of Toronto studied the usefulness of TikTok videos for recruiting cell, tissue, and organ donors. The researchers presented 30 TikTok videos to 46 participants 17 to 35 years of age and surveyed their reactions. Data shows that wel...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTdnDLoF85K/ What women eat appears to play a role in what she hears, and consuming a diet rich in fruit is associated with a nearly 20% lower incidence of tinnitus. #tinnitus #women #diet #fruit What women eat appears to play a role in what she hears, and consuming a diet rich in fruit is associated with a nearly 20% lower incidence of tinnitus. Medical and pu...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTdkxtBjXSc/ Teen catching up on their lost sleep over the weekend had a 41 percent lower risk of depressive symptoms compared with peers who didn’t. This the conclusion of a collaborative study by University of Oregon and SUNY Upstate Medical University that analyzed health data from 1087 16- to 24-year-olds. The study was just published in the Journal of Aff...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTTZliFKuC/ Those with an allergy to wheat could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction should they consume this product. Affected is lot code 505202008 with a best by date of May 20, 2026. This recalled product was sold in California at retail grocery stores between early July 2025 and early November 2025. Stop using this recalled preserved...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTSy8PF5Lk/ The hummus poses a serious or potentially life-threatening allergic reaction risk for consumers with a sesame allergy. The recalled hummus was sold by Rochambeau Farm Store in Bedford, New York, and at farmers markets in Connecticut. Do not consume the product. Return the hummus to the place of purchase to receive a full refund. If you have questi...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTSDA3D37p/ The recalled tamales are the Roasted Green Chile & Jack Cheese, Black Bean Bonanza & Jack Cheese, Butternut Squash w/ Roasted Green Chiles & Cheese, BBQ Chipotle Bean & White Cheddar, Mushroom Spinach & Salsa with Two Cheeses, Roasted Green Chile, Black Bean Bonanza, Butternut Squash w/ Roasted Green Chiles, Mushroom Spinach &a...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTRclXlkn9/ When attached to a bed, occupants can become entrapped within the rail or between the rail and the mattress, creating a serious risk of entrapment and death by asphyxiation. Affected is model number KDB504A01FT. About 26,200 bedrails were sold in the United States through Amazon.com and Walmart.com from August 2023 through October 2025. Stop using...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTQt0ijNKt/ These dressers are unstable if not anchored to the wall. They create serious tip-over and entrapment hazards that can result in severe injury or death to children. About 4,155 dressers were sold in the United States through Amazon.com from September 2025 through November 2025. Stop using these recalled dressers if they are not anchored to the wall...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTQJLTD6EH/ When attached to a bed, occupants can become entrapped within the rail or between the rail and the mattress, creating a serious risk of entrapment and death by asphyxiation. The bed rails also lack required hazard warning labels. Affected is model number BR-01. About 14,250 bedrails were sold in the United States through Amazon.com from September...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTPmGfCSOg/ If swallowed, the magnets can attract each other inside the body, leading to intestinal perforations, blockage, blood poisoning, or death. Affected is model number D888. About 3,500 games were sold in the United States through Amazon.com from June 2025 through September 2025. Stop using these recalled pounding toys. To obtain a full refund, write...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DTTHjtgjRFS/ The battery compartment in the LED light can be easily accessed by children creating a serious risk of battery ingestion that can cause severe internal burns or death. About 2,240 toy kits were sold in the United State through Amazon.com from March 2025 through July 2025. Stop allowing your child to use this recalled toy’s l...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTJd51DbZg/ These chargers can overheat and explode while in use creating serious fire and burn hazards for users.  Affected is model number RM5PBM. About 13,200 chargers were sold in the United States and 7,000 units were sold in Canada at Marshalls and T.J. Maxx stores between June 2024 and November 2025. Stop using these recalled magnetic wireless chargers....

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTTGv3PlvY2/ This product violates the mandatory safety standards for infant sleep products. The sides are too low, the openings at the foot are wider than allowed, and the loungers lack a stand, creating serious fall and entrapment hazards. About 9,300 baby loungers were sold through Amazon.com and Walmart.com from December 2023 through October 2025. Immediat...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTG2R-BDFM5/ Repeated exposure to fatty foods like bacon and burgers drives your liver cells into survival mode to help them endure metabolic stress. That transition also sets them on a path to become cancerous in years to come. Researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School now report this frightening transformation in the journal Cell following their studies...

A Widely-Used Painkiller May Harm Your Heart Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTG1ZG6D_ja/ Tramadol is an opioid often prescribed for chronic pain and restless legs.  Now, a comprehensive Danish review, published in the BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine journal , shows that tramadol carries a significant risk of heart-related problems including coronary artery disease with chest pain and eventual h...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTG02axD6Lt/ It is truly disgusting that some disreputable companies are peddling supplements that claim to cure infertility. Some boast that they can improve your IVF success rate while others even claim to guarantee pregnancy. The FDA issues this warning and adds that these bogus, unproven products waste precious time, drain finances, delay effective medical...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTG0KhoDI5s/ Whether you smoke cigarettes, vape, use nicotine pouches, or chew gum, the nicotine entering your body damages your heart and blood vessel tissues. Worse yet, nicotine consumption is surging, especially among teens and young adults.  A newly published expert consensus report from the European Society of Cardiology, appearing in the European Heart...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGzkWGld_k/ Conventional wisdom implicates caffeine as a trigger for cardiac arrhythmias. Not so, at least for atrial fibrillation, concludes the so-called DECAF study, an acronym for Does Eliminating Coffee Avoid Fibrillation? Headed by cardiologists from UC-San Francisco and Australia’s University of Adelaide, this clinical trial studied 200 adults with atr...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGy1D9GNic/ The manner in which your eyes blink tells just how well you are listening to a speaker.  A new study from psychologists at Montreal’s Concordia University, just published in the journal Trends in Hearing, reports that your blinking frequency diminishes as you focus on a given conversation.  The two separate studies involving 49 adult participants....

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGwzXhD5MX/ Replacing the vital compound pleiotrophin, missing from the brain tissues of those with an extra 21st chromosome, shows a promise of restoring critical intellectual functionality by mending flexible synaptic connections even after neural development appears to be complete.. Neuroscientists at the University of Virginia and California’s Salk Instit...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGwXlFDCNu/ Carrying on a conversation with a passenger or your phone while driving slows the eye movements that deliver about 90 percent of the information that you need to detect hazards. This from  researchers at Japan’s Fujita Health University whose study was just published in the journal PLOS ONE. Studied were 30 healthy adults, mean age 22 years. Measu...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGv2cqgD1K/ Putting on a virtual reality headset to experience a short virtual reality experience could be the key to allaying your fears.  So say sleep scientists at Texas A&M University in a report of their pilot study in Frontiers in Virtual Reality.  They studied 61 young adults who donned Oculus Quest 2 units and watched scenes inspired by commonly r...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DTGs1LpDfDE/ Do you and your partner battle over a type of blanket, who has more, and/or temperature? The Scandinavian sleep method may be the answer to your dilemmas. It’s simple: you share the same bed, but you each have your own blanket, duvet, or even sleeping bag instead of sharing one. In contrast to most of my reports, I could find no controlled, clinic...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DS1xWQQDAuP/ Eating the dough or cookies creates serious risk to people with peanut allergies. Affected is the 2-pound, 8.5-ounce package marked with a BEST BY date of December 6, 2026. This recalled frozen cookie dough was sold in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska at retail grocery stores. If you, family members, or household visitors have a peanut allergy,...