Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Um4_I-3NiP8 Published in October, 2018 The American Academy of Pediatrics now permits pediatricians to expel unvaccinated children and families from their practices. #vaccinedeniers #antivaxx #pediatrician #AAP

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/5SG86iEupkk Published in October, 2018 Stomach acid reducing drugs, proton pump inhibitors, frequently used to treat reflux, gastritis, and ulcer have a potentially dangerous side effect. #protonpumpinhibitors #reflux #osteoporosis #gastritis #ulcer

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/1EPsiCvrYhk Published in October, 2018 Bratty kids are made, not born.   Immunize your children again nasty entitlement using gratification exercises. #brat #entitled #teens #children #parenting

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/T_PXwqbfZFU Published on Oct 8, 2018 Creating see-saw weight loss-gain and fluctuations of your other body numbers by yo-yo dieting can lead to disaster. #dieting #yoyo #yoyoweight

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/F92uUfjzQag Published on Sep 15, 2018 Back pain in teens is associated with self-destructive and anti-social behavior that may require parental and professional intervention. #backpain #teens #selfdestruction #antisocial #neurosis

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/xPOuK52tjSw Published on Mar 15, 2017 A Cocoa-Caffeine Cocktail can sharpen your mind and strategically timed aerobic exercise can improve your memory. #cocoa #caffeine #memory #cognition #problemsolving

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/lls74cm09OY Published on Feb 22, 2017 The increasing numbers of Americans eating gluten-free diets may be exposing themselves to poisons. #gluten #glutenfree #poisons #arsenic #mercury  

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/sYDFN3FgFj8 Published on Feb 17, 2017 Drinking pomegranate juice can reduce high blood pressure but has other benefits. #Pomegranate #hypertension #bloodpressure #antioxidant

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/q5721toUkjw Published on Aug 1, 2016 Cinnamon may improve your memory. #cinnamon #memory #dementia

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/HGZ7oROKPyg Published on Jun 12, 2016 Cleaning your charcoal grill could lead to injuries of the mouth, throat, and intestines.   #Grilling #grillcleaning #foreignbodies #grillbrushes

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/XBVuiU1SwvE Published on Apr 16, 2016 Tylenol can affect your reaction times and judgement. #Tylenol #acetaminophen #reactiontime #judgement

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/mY6ggkY0vBE Published on Dec 6, 2015 React to Your Baby's Babbling to foster the development of communications with your baby. #Parenting #babbling #language #infancy #communications  

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/6-EdsjAk52c Here’s some very good news.   A new study from Yale cardiology shows that the incidence of heart attacks and the rates of death from them are at 20 year lows. Following more than 4 million Medicare patients from 1995 to 2014, the investigators report a 38% decline in heart attack hospitalizations over 2 decades.   Even more impressive is the all time low 12% 3...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Ks1j_yT6_Gs The drug dapagliflozin (DAP-AG-LI-FLOSIN), marketed as Farxiga (FAR-SIGA), which helps type 2 non-insulin dependent diabetics control their blood sugars, can help patients with heart failure as well.   The beneficial effect of Farxiga on heart failure has been known, but the new information from the international DECLARE-TIMI study is that the drug preferentia...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/qPrjwtIsFvM Ninety percent of the most popular prescription medications in the US contain one or more ingredients that may make you sick.   Now, I’m not talking about the main or so-called active ingredient but rather about the inactive ingredients that are added to pills, capsules, and liquids to improve shelf life, absorption, and taste. A study just released by collabo...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Od7mpmZadsA If you heard that you can avoid regular, breast squeezing mammography and still effectively screen for breast cancer using thermography, you heard incorrectly.   The FDA now repeats its warning that thermography, the use of an infrared camera to detect breast hot spots, cannot detect breast cancer at its earliest and most treatable stages. The FDA has been tak...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/SjzjE9Wa4X4 I’m not referring to the psychedelic variety of ‘shrooms.   We’re talking more pedestrian varieties. A study from Singapore just published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease suggests that mushrooms may be magic after all.   They seem to play a role in preventing cognitive impairment that occurs with aging and after head injury. The researchers studied and t...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/qlbHRISO0no Sit-stand desks, so-called SSDs, are no miracle.   This conclusion stems from a University of Pittsburgh meta-analysis of some 53 studies. The Pitt bioengineers conclude that these convertible desks do drive less sitting, can improve back pain issues, may make their users somewhat more comfortable, and can lower your blood pressure a bit.   They will not help...

Vidcast: ttps://youtu.be/S2QmyRj51jM Wrapping a new pacemaker in an absorbable, antibiotic-soaked mesh before implantation can prevent a nasty infection later.   Cardiologists at Cleveland Clinic conducted and recently published the results of an international, multi-center study of the FDA approved Medtronic TYRX   (TRIKES) Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope. The trial enrolled nearly 7,000 patien...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/mot6c4dB_fQ If you’re struggling with balance problems due to an accident, an injury, or advancing age, that VR headset laying around the house or on the store shelf may just be the key to your recovery.   Balance specialists and physiotherapists at Sweden’s Lund University now report their results using a virtual reality environment to help subjects train their balance s...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/pZYPwtzQhJs Is your smartphone the final authority on the best time to have sex?   Whether you want to get pregnant or avoid parenthood, the answer appears to be yes.   Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health studied one app that can help you, the DOT Fertility Tracker, in over 700 women 18 to 39 years of age for up to one year of use.   They found that...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/vOOwAULCFfg   Statins, in widespread use for lowering cholesterol and right-sizing the proportions of so-called good and bad fats, HDL and LDL.   Statins such as atorvastatin (Lipitor), lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol), rosuvastatin (Crestor), and simvastatin (Zocor) will save lives but all too few take them regularly as prescribed.     Utah cardiologists pre...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/mIwQOTwREXY A mother smoking before and during pregnancy increases the risk that her child will die unexpectedly during infancy.   Seattle Children’s Hospital pediatricians and the data jockeys at Microsoft Corporation collaborated to analyze the CDC’s infant death data covering almost 21 million births and close to 20,000 episodes of infant death. The risk of unexpected...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/KTnE7itSwwY Sporadic over-consumption of alcohol during adolescent years leads to epigenetic alterations in the cells of brain tissue, and that modification forever damages later emotional stability.   Experiments proving this phenomenon from the University of Illinois-Chicago were just published in the journal Biological Psychiatry. Using an adolescent rat model, the sci...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/s4Lxva4O0Pk Sleep deprivation will drive you to consume a wider variety of products.   Marketing researchers from the University of British Columbia’s business school draw this conclusion from several studies of buying patterns as a function of sleepiness.   Their experiments included artificial situations such as choosing candy bars on more or less sleep and a look at th...