Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Today’s topics: A trick for comforting babies. Marijuana damages sperm DNA. Exercise is better than medication for reducing blood pressure. Milk cereal drinks will make your child fat. There is no such thing as a harmless concussion. Alcohol triggers migraine headaches. Then some SHORT SHORTS......... Compression stocking may turbocharge you. Marijuana could hurt your eyes. Supermarket impulse buy...

This is Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.   Let’s run down a list of today’s topics:   Obesity breeds cancer. Eye blinks are conversational cues. Your doctor’s stethoscopes are filthy. Teen bullying produces brain damage. Subway travel triggers colds and flu. Your body weight through life predict...

Scoped broadcast of Dr. Howard Smith hosting David Hubel, MD, Harvard Medical School Professor and Nobel Laureate in Medicine/Physiology and Neil Barnard, MD, Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Today's topics include: PREGNANT WOMEN’S COSMETICS SKEW DAUGHTERS DEVELOPMENT; PICTURES OF YOUR ROTTING BLOOD VESSELS DRIVES HEALTHIER BEHAVIOR; VAPING MARIJUANA MAY BE DANGEROUS; TEAM CHEMISTRY OUTFLANKS STAR PLAYERS; LIVING IN GREEN SPACES REDUCES HEART DISEASE; STOMACH ANTACIDS REDUCE BLEEDING FROM BLOOD THINNERS; IBD MAY PREDISPOSE TO PROSTATE CANCER; HOW THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET PREVENTS HEART...

Dr. Howard Smith sifts through mounds of medical news to bring you Health News Should Should Use including: Height and cancer, Dad fitness impact on offspring, Pancreatic cancer early warning, biofeedback therapy for constipation, maternal hypothyroidism impacts child intelligence, grow new spinal disks, last resort for migraines, organic food benefits, macular degeneration treatment simplified, o...

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Health capsules from the first part of October, 2018 including: flu shots; prevention of non-fatal injuries; FDA approvals of Gardasil 9 and a Bose hearing aid, a drug to prevent diabetes, prevention of macular degeneration, how to avoid raising a bratty child, danger of gastric reflux medications, pediatricians boot unvaccinated kids, sports and bone density, pre-eclampsia association with dement...

Excepts from WBZ Radio evening talk program with discussion about dealing with the IRS and personal finance.

Program inviting call-ins for ANY problem: health, legal, home maintenance.

Demo covering Health Capsules and morning show on WBZ Radio.

Creating see-saw weight loss-gain and fluctuations of your other body numbers by yo-yo dieting can lead to disaster. Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ZL-pqiWi9uA ________ Mee Kyoung Kim , Kyungdo Han , Yong-Moon Park , etal. Associations of Variability in Blood Pressure, Glucose and Cholesterol Concentrations, and Body Mass Index With Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes in the General Population. Cir...

The hospital ratings on social media are inaccurate. Learn where you can get the most accurate information before you or your family must be admitted. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/kIgB1-w-7lg ___________ Victoria Perez, Seth Freedman. Do Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings Coincide with Hospital Compare Measures of Clinical and Nonclinical Quality? Health Services Research, 2018; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13...

Fraudulent products, procedures, and people abound on the web. Here are some ready strategies that will help prevent you from being taken. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/8zG96y1wniw ____________ Bernie Garrett, Sue Murphy, Shahin Jamal, etal. Internet health scams-Developing a taxonomy and risk-of-deception assessment tool. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2018; DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12643

Drink extra glasses of water can prevent bladder infections. Here how much to drink and why. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/b_Cuvi_by2I _________ Thomas M. Hooton, Mariacristina Vecchio, Alison Iroz, Ivan Tack, Quentin Dornic, Isabelle Seksek, Yair Lotan. Effect of Increased Daily Water Intake in Premenopausal Women With Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections. JAMA Internal Medicine, 2018; DOI: 10.1001/ja...

A2 Milk is in a line of dairy products with a unique milk protein. Should you buy and try it? VidCast: https://youtu.be/tCASKU3lij4 _______________________ A2 Milk: Breakthrough of Science or Marketing? Medscape - Aug 10, 2018. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/900365_2

EPT can help us curb the epidemic of sexually-transmitted diseases. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/dPaeclaRCbE ___________________ https://www.cdc.gov/std/ept/legal/default.htm

Dr. Smith reviews tips for extending your healthy life rather than only the duration of your life. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/OUBxRCTfk3k __________________ S. Jay Olshansky. From Lifespan to Healthspan. JAMA, 2018; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.12621 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db293.pdf

What do you look for in the ideal doctor? Here’s a checklist assembled by the British Medical Journal and MDLinx that you should use. Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/emFPgwnruQ8 https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/2631

Are you a good or a bad boss? Do you have a good or a bad boss. The latest study shows management style definitely affects the bottom line. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/xLTvkqWNGVU   ______ An-Chih Wang, Chou-Yu Tsai, Shelley D. Dionne, Francis J. Yammarino, Seth M. Spain, Hsiao-Chi Ling, Min-Ping Huang, Li-Fang Chou, Bor-Shiuan Cheng. Benevolence-dominant, authoritarianism-dominant, and classical p...

Azathioprine can curb IBD and arthritis but the latest study implicates it as a possible cause of skin cancer. Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/x1VLkU920Kc _______ Gareth J. Inman, Jun Wang, Ai Nagano, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Karin J. Purdie, Richard G. Taylor, Victoria Sherwood, Jason Thomson, Sarah Hogan, Lindsay C. Spender, Andrew P. South, Michael Stratton, Claude Chelala, Catherine A. Harwood, Charlo...

Learn why some people get colds and others don't. Improve your chances of dodging the common cold bullet. VideoPodcast:  https://youtu.be/KSq2867eDAI Valia T. Mihaylova, Yong Kong, Olga Fedorova, Lokesh Sharma, Charles S. Dela Cruz, Anna Marie Pyle, Akiko Iwasaki, Ellen F. Foxman. Regional Differences in Airway Epithelial Cells Reveal Tradeoff between Defense against Oxidative Stress and Defense a...

Back. pain in teens is associated with self-destructive and anti-social behavior. VidCast:  https://youtu.be/MPiYL1Xvzxc ______________ S J Kamper, Z A Michaleff, P Campbell, K M Dunn, T P Yamato, R K Hodder, J Wiggers, C M Williams. Back pain, mental health and substance use are associated in adolescents . Journal of Public Health , 2018; DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy129

Intro to podcast: Back pain in teenagers is a sign of trouble.