Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWpCdZ4D7HM/ Specialized Bicycle Components Turbo Como SL electric bicycles have fork steering tubes that can develop a fatigue crack and fail during use. Affected: Turbo Como SL 4.0 and 5.0 electric bicycles. About 5,720 bikes were sold nationwide through authorized retailers and online at Specialized’s website from March 2021 through January 2026. Stop ridin...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWpBb06Dz2W/ Amazon Basics Camping Folding Pocket Knives fail to stay securely closed creating laceration risks. Affected: Model B0DM5BJK3H with manufacturing lot codes C25021766FJO, C25090466FJO, and C25090566FJO. About 2,840 knives were sold online at Amazon.com from August 2025 through February 2026. Stop using this knife immediately and register for the re...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWpAoP9mJ5n/ These gas ranges have delayed ignition. Affected: Models PCFG3080AF, GCFG3070BF, GCRG3060BF/BD, FCRG3051BS/BW/BB, plus additional models within serial range VF52200000 through VF54399999. About 174,800 ranges were sold in the US and  an additional 5,300 in Canada at Lowe’s, The Home Depot, and other retailers, as well as online at Frigidaire’s web...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo-yYhjmwy/ Wagner Spray Tech 900 Series Power Steamers have hoses that overheat with nozzles that expel hot water during and after use. Affected: Models 905e Auto Steamer, 915e On-Demand Power Steamer, and 925e Steam Machine Elite Steamer. About 700,000 steamers were sold in the US with an additional 8,000 in Canada at major retailers including The Home Depo...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo-FMEjKzn/ These tumblers break apart and expose button cell batteries create choking and ingestion hazards for children. If swallowed, the batteries trigger gastrointestinal burs that lead to serious infections or death. About 75,700 tumblers were sold at Kroger, Hy-Vee, Meijer, Nordstrom Rack and Winn-Dixie stores nationwide and online at Builtny.com from...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo8_B2mHPs/ These bassinets have a defective attachment mechanism that creates an opening between the sleeper frame and the mattress posing a deadly fall hazard to infants. Affected is model QX-831. About 110,400 bassinets were sold online at Amazon.com from October 2023 through December 2025. Stop using these recalled bassinets. Contact AirClub at 1-833-977-...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo79QblE5f/ These fidget toys have high-powered magnets that violate mandatory toy safety standards and pose a serious ingestion hazard. Several ingested magnets can attract one another leading to intestinal perforations, obstructions, and infections. About 9,350 of these magnetic toys were sold at Amazon.com from February 2025 through October 2025. Stop allo...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo7WuwD6CH/ These light sets have child-accessible lithium coin batteries in a remote control battery compartment creating a serious ingestion hazard that can lead to internal burns or death. About 26,000 light sets were sold at Amazon.com from March 2024 through March 2026. Stop using these recalled LED lights and place them out of reach of children. Disasse...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo58l8Fyks/ The small metal bristles detach from these brushes and pose an ingestion hazard with gastrointestinal perforations and infections.  Affected: model numbers 530-0024, 530-0024G, 530-0034, 530-0039, 530-0041, and 530-0042. About 10.2 million grill brushes were sold at Home Depot stores and online at homedepot.com from 2015 through 2026. Stop using t...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo5K1eDlF3/ These power strips lack supplementary overcurrent protection leading  fire hazard and serious injury or death from smoke inhalation and burns. About 5,543 power strips were sold online at Amazon.com from April 2024 through January 2026. Stop using the serecalled power strips. Contact Middle Way Electronics by email at CCCEIpowerstrips@outlook.com...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo4XaYDrxp/ These connectors fail due to a manufacturing defect that causes gas leakage and poses fire hazards. About 196,800 gas connectors were sold at Ace Hardware, Blake’s Inc. and Merritt’s Hardware stores from May 2025 through November 2025. Stop using these recalled gas connectors. Shut off the gas supply and contact DuraTrac at 1-866-678-8214 or by em...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo3oSnCXqc/ These kits fail due to a defect in the plastic brackets and cable ties that break or degrade, creating tip-over and entrapment hazards that can result in serious injury or death for children. About 253,500 kits were sold in the US online at Amazon.com from June 2019 through January 2026. Stop using the recalled tip restraint kits. Keep children aw...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DWo2wPfDkbZ/ These bed rails have a defective design that leads to entrapment and suffocation. Affected: Models LVA2009SLV; LVA2097SLV; and LVA1024. About 122,000 bed rails were sold at medical supply stores and online retailers including Amazon from September 2019 through December 2025. Stop using these recalled bed rails. Contact Vive Health at 1-800-487-380...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVuBYj2D6DD/ Scientists are developing bacteria that can actually eat cancerous tumors from the inside out, a futuristic approach that targets areas traditional therapies can’t reach. This development comes from bioengineeers at Canada’s University of Waterloo and is published in ACS Synthetic Biology .  Their approach utilizes an bioengineered Clostridium bac...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVuAhnLjW-p/ Cutting out sugar very early in life—even before birth—may lower risks of heart disease decades later. That’s the finding of a multicenter collaborative study published in British Medical Journal. The study used a unique “natural experiment” from postwar Britain to show that limiting sugar in the first 1,000 days of life is linked to significantly...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVt_oDBiVAO/ Adding a laser procedure dramatically improves the results of immunotherapy for one of the deadliest brain cancers. Neuro-oncologists at USC report this development in the journal Nature Communications.  In this Phase 1/2 clinical trial, 45 patients with recurrent astrocytoma were randomized to receive either laser interstitial thermal therapy (LI...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVt2hCPjO0D/ Worrying about getting older seems to actually speed up how fast your body ages. That’s a key finding from social scientists and epidemiologists at New York University School of Global Public Health, and published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology . The study demonstrates that anxiety about aging with fears about future health are linked to...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVt1yyHGp9p/ Proton pump inhibitors, a popular class of heartburn drugs, may quietly disrupt essential nutrients in the body leading to anemia and bone loss. Environmental and medical researchers from Brazil report their findings in the journal ACS Omega . Their work suggests that long-term use of proton pump inhibitors like omeprazole, pantoprazole, and esome...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVt1F3DjlXV/ The shingles vaccine does more than prevent the painful rash from a herpes zoster infection. It seems to actually slow biological aging. That’s the key finding from gerontology investigators at USC, the University of Southern California, published in the The Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. The study finds...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVt0gRjj4uX/ A treatment for clinical depression that typically lasts six weeks could be compressed into just five days with comparable results. Psychiatrists at the UCLA Health Sciences report this advancement in the Journal of Affective Disorders . This development is an accelerated form of transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS. The study included 175 pa...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtz5K6AKlf/ A multipurpose vaccine in a nasal spray could someday protect against life-threatening viruses including flu, pneumonia, even CoVid as well as multiple allergies. It works by boosting your lungs’ immune defenses rather than targeting a specific virus or allergen. That’s a fascinating development from microbiologists and immunologists at Stanford M...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtzNftjy0Z/ A new oxygen-delivering gel called BioGel helps prevent amputations in diabetics with otherwise non-healing wounds. It solves one of the biggest challenges in healing: lack of oxygen deep in tissue. Researchers at the University of California Riverside report in Communications Materials that a novel battery-powered gel that supports both local oxy...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtyglGifHF/ Exercise during chemotherapy significantly improves quality of life for women with breast cancer—according to a new meta-analysis from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity . The key finding: patients who stayed physically active during treatment felt better not just physically, but emotionall...

Made Fresh Salad Cream Cheeses And Tofu Spread contain listeria contamination. 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 stillbirth. Affected product has an expiration date of February 27, 2026. These recalled cream cheese products were distrib...

Elite Treats Chicken Chips for Dogs have Salmonella contamination. Salmonella can cause serious gastrointestinal and systemic infections in pets and in humans. Affected: lot #24045 with an expiration date of April 2027. This contaminated dog food was sold through Florida Hardware, LLC to feed stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Stop feeding this pet food to you...