Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSVh4OPDOAS/ These steamers project boiling water and their water tank caps detach creating risks of scalding burn injuries. Affected is model FCL-H09. About 2,840 steamers were sold online at Vevor.com, Amazon.com, and HomeDepot.com from December 2023 to September 2025. Stop using the recalled steamers and contact Sanven Technology at 1-855-599-6320 or via th...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSVZvikDX1i/ These bath seats are unstable and create a risk of serious injury or death from drowning. Affected is model YD-1958. About 8,960 bath seats were sold on Amazon.com from May 2024 through October 2025. Stop putting your babies in these bath seats. Contact the company at 1-213-579-2588 or by email at bentalkhere@outlook.com for a full refund or for m...

Vevor Ice Crushers Burn Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSVZFLSF9l2/ These machines overheat and ignite creating fire hazards. Affected are Ice Shavers, Ice Crushers, and Snow Cone Makers, including models BY-300 and BY-300FS in multiple colors.  About 11,650 ice crushers were sold in the US and 1,060 were sold in Canada at Vevor.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Wayfair.com, HomeDepot.com, and...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSVYTEJD39L/ They violate mandatory ATV safety standards: vehicle suspensions fail to meet required specifications; handlebars create laceration risks on impact. Affected are X-Pro Eagle Model CARTOONS and the FRP Sahara Model SHR 40-RED-M. About 2,290 of these ATVs were sold online at Walmart.com, Powersportsmax.com, Xprousa.com, Amazon.com, Temu.com, and Frp...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSEr1jmjkAt/ These small packages labeled as cheese crackers but containing peanut butter creates a risk of a severe allergic reaction to peanut-allergic persons. Affected are 27.6-ounce cartons with Best When Used By dates 8 JAN 26 and 15 JAN 26 with the AE plant code. These mislabeled Ritz Crackers were sold in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ar...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSEq7SRD1xr/ This gently cooked and frozen dog food contains plastic foreign bodies that lead to mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract injuries. Affected are 16-ounce packets with Best By 12/25/2026 B01. This tainted dog food was sold at neighborhood pet stores in Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, Nevada, A...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD5uoWiTG_/ Affected are 34-ounce tubs with lot code 58041, best by July 28, 2026, and 11.5-ounce bags with lot code 58171, best by August 10, 2026. These contaminated nuts were sold at Wegmans stores in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. between November 3 and Dec...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD5CmkDx9k/ Affected is the 17-ounce glass-jar product sold between September 23, 2022, and December 3, 2025. This soup was sold in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Minnesota, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Iowa . If you, family members, or household visitor have a milk allergy or sensitivity, do not co...

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD4R-il-5z/ Because this pump builds up excessive pressure during use, it ruptures creating a risk of physical injury to the user or bystanders. The recalled units have the product code 5252801 on the price tag. About 3,170 of these pumps were sold at Primark stores in the Northeast, and in Florida, Maryland, and Illinois. Discontinue using this water balloon...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD3dnNj_4q/ If the item’s seams separate, magnets inside the cubes become loose creating a serious ingestion hazard. When swallowed, the magnets attract each other inside the body and cause intestinal perforations, twisting or blockage, blood poisoning, and even death.  About 9,400 sets were sold at Michael’s Stores nationwide and online at Michaels.com, and...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD2rvbjvtI/ The chip breaker contacts the cutter head blades during use and ejects debris leading to impact and laceration hazards. About 2,300 of these planers were sold in the US, along with 12 sold in Canada at Bibb Tool & Cutter, Hamilton Tool and Supply, PMC Tool Company, Stoll Brothers Lumber and other hardware stores, and online at Grizzly.com, Hom...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD2E7FjrLf/ The tumbler handle detaches and becomes a choking hazard for children. Affected are tumblers with serial number 235010 or with no serial number on the bottom under the rubber boot. About 17,000 were sold at Academy Sports, Scheels, Combined Sales Company, Gordons Ace Hardware, Bucks Ace, Kents Grocery, and Basin Sports, as well as online through H...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD09_pDBtL/ These units tip over if not anchored to a wall creating entrapment hazards that can lead to serious injury or even death for children. The affected dressers are marked with identifiers B0D62S9H39, B0D62TCKD7, B0D62SQC6Q, and B0D62VBGZG. About 4,120 dressers were sold through Amazon.com between September 2024 and October 2025. Stop filling and usin...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSD0Hg0F3cu/ The button-cell battery compartment readily opens violating the mandatory toy safety standard and creates a risk of serious injury or death should your child swallow the battery. The recall covers all color sets and sizes that use this defective compartment. About 10,380 of these writing tablet sets were sold through Amazon.com between September 2...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSDzPi3kUp3/ The lithium-ion battery in these power banks overheat and ignite creating fire and burn hazards. Affected are units with serial numbers 000G21, 000H21, 000I21, and 000L21. About 210,000 of these powerbanks were sold through Amazon.com between August 2021 and April 2022. Stop recharging and using these recalled power banks. They should go to INIU’s...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBTBdjADuG/ Infants developing RSV during the first 6 months of life are more than three times more likely to develop bronchial asthma later on.  This the result of a retrospective Belgian study of nearly 1.5 million children published in the journal Science Immunology . The data showed that infants born to parents without a history of asthma and admitted to...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBSUohFMwh/ A weight loss pill called “Molecule,”going viral on social media overseas, contains the banned substance sibutramine that boosts your risk of heart attack and stroke.  The Molecule pills are touted as “natural” containing dandelion root, fennel seeds, and black tea.  Lab analyses of the pills proves that they contain the sibutramine which was bann...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBRdaZDbf6/ Acute myeloid leukemia kills at least 11,000 Americans each year, and Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg is currently fighting this challenging disease.  AML as well as other leukemias and lymphomas is frequently resistant to chemotherapy regimens that include the otherwise effective drug venetoclax. Rutgers University oncologists no...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBQslfDzAp/ Effective pain-killing can be fraught with complications.  The non-narcotic NSAIDs like ibuprofen and aspirin irritate gastrointestinal linings, trigger ulcers, and cause bleeding.  The narcotics carry the risk of addiction. Is there a better approach?  Neuroscientists at Tulane University and the University of Texas-Dallas think so.  Studying how...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBPxskDW56/ Organ transplantation is a miracle for those with failing kidneys, hearts, or livers.  With those transplants comes the need for lifelong immunosuppression and the risk of infection as well as graft failure due to an immune attack. With the hope of eliminating the need for this immunosuppression, Stanford transplant immunologists and developmental...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBOuigCYAJ/ We know that repeated head trauma damages the brain leading to dementia and ultimately death, the consequences of so-called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. The mechanism of damage is known to be brain bouncing against the hard skull.  A new study from radiologists at the University of Alabama, the Cleveland Clinic, and the University of A...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBN4G3jV3O/ Exercising is the best thing you can do to maintain health. Breathing polluted air while doing so cuts exercise’s benefits by more than half.  Chinese and British sports and behavioral science researchers performed a meta-analysis of data from nearly 2.4 million subjects followed for 10 years and published their results in SpringerNatureLink.  Whi...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBM6S-jkSM/ Lazy eye or amblyopia typically begins in childhood when one eye develops decreased vision.  It can occur due to poor eye alignment, so-called cross-eyes or strabismus, or due to the affected eye being not capable of focusing due to excessive near- or far-sightedness.  The accepted fact is that, once an eye shuts down, there is no way to recover t...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBMDqqgF_0/ The blood-brain barrier is a protective shield that keeps blood-borne toxins out of your brain.  It is also a barrier that keeps lifesaving cancer drugs from destroying brain cancers. Columbia University pediatric oncologists have found a non-invasive way open the gates for beneficial therapy. The researchers tested focused ultrasound on three chi...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DSA_9pGDRpS/ A major challenges faced by oncologists treating brain cancers such as the deadly glioblastoma is transporting agents across the blood-brain barrier to sites within the brain.   The barrier protects delicate brain tissues from toxins and pathogens, but it also interferes with life-saving medical therapy.  Now neurosurgeons at Washington University...