Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHl_8XMPk-3/ These bottles violate federal regulations regarding child-resistant packaging. The product is an antihistamine, a poisoning risk to young children if swallowed. About 2,300 bottles were sold online at Amazon.com between July 2023 and October 2024. Immediately secure these Benadryl bottles out of reach of children.   Contact...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHedpIIpiCz/ Affected products with wood foreign bodies include Lean Cuisine® Butternut Squash Ravioli, Lean Cuisine® Spinach Artichoke Ravioli, Lean Cuisine® Lemon Garlic Shrimp Stir Fry, and STOUFFER’S® Party Size Chicken Lasagna all produced between August 2024 and March 2025.These frozen foods were sold nationwide. Do not consume these recalled products...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHec7PPuT7J/ This bacterium causes a severe and sometimes fatal systemic infection in the very young, older frail individuals, and those with weakened immune systems.  Listeria can also trigger miscarriages and stillbirths. About 10,500 packages of these contaminated mushrooms were sold in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHecJ_yuz2N/ Those with an allergy to eggs could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction should they consume this product. The recall includes products with Best By dates of March 13, 2025, through March 18, 2025. These recalled noodles were sold at H Mart stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois, Texas, and...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHebpVsRDFb/ Whole Foods Market 365 Small Bites Macaroni & Cheese contain undeclared eggs and meat ingredients. Those with an allergy to eggs or certain meats could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction should they consume this product. About 18,000 packages of this mac & cheese were sold at Whole Foods Market...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHea-mppJsq/ These chowders have Clostridium botulinum contamination, and this bacterium can cause serious illness or death.  Symptoms of botulism include weakness, dizziness, double vision, trouble speaking or swallowing, and breathing difficulties. About 15,000 units were sold in Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington through retail stores a...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHeabmDPrFD/ Large and small boxes with lot code 11152026 are contaminated with bird flu virus (H5N1). These recalled boxes were distributed to retailers in California, Colorados, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington in November 2024. If you bought this cat food,  stop feeding it to your pets.  Return this feed to the place of purchas...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHeZ68SgMUF/ The affected black batteries overheat and ignite creating fire and burn risks. About 40,370 batteries were sold nationwide through Amazon, Costco, Sublue, West Marine, and other online retailers from June 2018 through February 2025. Stop charging and using these recalled batteries and contact Sublue at 1-855-206-8698 or via the email support.us...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHeZQ90OMiG/ The fork steerer tube on these affected bikes and framesets can crack, break, or separate creating a risk of serious injury. Only bicycles and framesets with a V5 fork are affected. About 1,300 units were sold nationwide through authorized BMC bicycle dealers and online from July 2022 through February 2025. Stop riding the...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHeYuQIPaIM/ This heater’s fan fails to turn on leading to overheating and ignition. Affected is model number BHN2133. About 6,050 fans were sold at Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Kentucky from September 2024 through January 2025. Stop using these recalled heaters and return them to any Meijer store for a full refund.  Fo...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHeYGjVuyu5/ The safety snap clasp on these teethers can detach and create a choking risk to young children. The recall affects multiple models including Assisi, Little Flower, God’s Grace, Cecilia, John the Baptist, and Divine Mercy for the Rosary teethers, and Genesis, Maccabees, Esther, Wisdom, Divine Mercy, Psalm, and Proverbs for t...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHeXk0NNGcd/ These Black Diamond harnesses degrade over time, fail to support climbers, and create serious injuries or death. About 1,580 harnesses were sold in the US and 130 were sold in Canada at Liberty Mountain, REI, and at other specialty outdoor stores nationwide as well as online at blackdiamondequipment.com, backcountry.com, and evo.com from Januar...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHeWm3vvxOD/ These stools collapse or tip over while in use creating a serious fall and injury risk to children. About 10,300 toddler stools were sold exclusively on Amazon.com between March 2024 and December 2024. Immediately stop permitting your children to sit on these recalled stools. Contact Blissful-Time at 1-833-999-9327 or via t...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHeV00BtmNv/ These glass bottles tend to crack creating an injury risk.  Affected are lot numbers 11/28/2024 L and 11/27/2024. About 61,500 bottles were sold by Trader Joe’s in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas between December 2024 and January 2025. Stop using the re...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHWsv0DpXHF/ It turns out that consistently filling your glass with white wine leads to a 26% higher risk of any cancer but only in women.  A white wine habit is also associated with a 22% higher risk of skin cancer for men and women.  Brown University dermatologists and epidemiologists now report these conclusions from their meta-analysis of 42 studies and...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWsGm-M6lc/ Those burgers, fries, donuts, and milk shakes during pregnancy not only load pounds on your frame but also create liver disease in your baby.  Collaborative research from the Universities of Oklahoma and Colorado using a macaque animal model reveals that steady ingestion of a high fat, high sugar typical Western diet during...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHWrZMmM_b_/ A nanogel coupled with a cell-penetrating compound more effectively delivers antibiotics to kill bacteria that hide within bladder lining cells and perpetuate urinary tract infections.  Pharmacologists and microbiologists from the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Campus report the successful development and deployment of just such a drug. The...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWqt9XOIpA/ Chemists from the Czech Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry and the John’s Hopkins Drug Discovery unit have synthesized several compounds that, when swallowed and metabolized, create natural anti-inflammatory compounds that can help trigger the regrowth of hair.  Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that pro...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHWqGMHsxHy/ Diabetes-related deaths dropped by 32% from 2000 to 2019.  That is a decline from 28.1 deaths per 100,000 people to 19.1  This progress in diabetic management occurred in all racial and ethnic groups. Epidemiologists from Seattle’s University of Washington report these heartening statistics after their review of data from US government database...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWphOavLTB/ Receiving sequential CoVid vaccinations in the same arm boosts your initial protective antibody responses 4.5 fold.  Research immunologists at Australia’s University of Melbourne report this result after analyzing the immune responses to CoVid vaccination in a mouse model.  This more rapid, stronger antibody responses could...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHWouikv4B-/ University of Maryland virologists, in conjunction with staff at the Vaxart company, now report that a newly developed oral norovirus vaccine candidate is safe and effective.  This vaccine in tablet form, VXA-G1.1-NN, delivers a nonreplicating adenoviral vector that carriers the norovirus G1.1 major capsid protein VP1.  The vaccine underwent ph...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWnueHvHxv/ The World Health Organization and the UK’s Francis Crick Institute sponsored an international meeting of influenza virologists to select those strains of the flu virus to be included in the 2025-2026 Influenza vaccines.   This vital conclave, usually held in the US on an annual basis, was just canceled by the our current go...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHWnH5EMJ4m/ Microplastics, the microscopic and nano-sized plastic particles that are invading our bodies, lend a hand to bacteria attempting to evade our most powerful antibiotics.  Boston University bioengineers studied this phenomenon using E. coli, the bacteria that often cause serious and sometimes deadly food poisoning, The investigators show that, wh...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DHWmcgnMxf3/ Two-thirds of children wearing peanut skin patches were safely desensitized to this common kid allergen.  Pediatric allergists at the University of Colorado followed 298 children 4 to 11 years of age in their phase 3 study of so-called epicutaneous  immunotherapy. The Viaskin Peanut Patch delivers 250 ug of peanut protein,...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHJpEFNOP0m/ These slot car kits contain loose, high-powered magnets that pose ingestion hazards to children. When ingested, the magnets attract each other in the gastrointestinal tract leading to intestinal perforations, blockages, infections, and even death. Fully assembled models are not affected by this recall. About 55,000 kits were sold nationwide at...