Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/BwkOnXPH5iA A full 60% of patients treated for various cancers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas have developed long CoVid symptoms. Compare that to the national average for long CoVid as of December 2022 which, according to the CDC, is about 15%. The researchers surveyed 312 cancer patients and also found that female cancer patients had a higher incidence than males...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/C8ZsNqt8hkM A giant Australian study of nearly half million children ages 4 to 6 years shows that those conceived using in-vitro fertilization techniques enjoy developmental and educational outcomes statistically equal to those of children naturally conceived. This is comforting news indeed for the parents of some 8 million children worldwide who have been brought into th...

Complete narratives and references may be found at: https://www.drhowardsmith.com/feb-2nd-week-health-news-23 Vidcast: https://youtu.be/8xieI4V9lDU ========================== Health REPORT Highlights: Making Teens More attentive Preventing Whooping Cough in Newborns Future therapy for low sex drive A pediatric heart valve that can grow with a child ========================== #ivf #development #cog...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/z8eAE8M0ZRM The FDA and the Edgewell Personal Care Company have expanded the recall of the Banana Boat Hair & Scalp Sunscreen Spray SPF 30 by adding an additional batch to those in the recall announced in July of 2022. This product contains the human carcinogen benzene in the propellent used to deliver the sunscreen. The 4 lot codes involved are: 20016AF, 20084BF, 211...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/rhxuKj6dwmQ The FDA and Joy Joy’s Bakery are recalling Ube Spanish Bread, Ube Ensaymada, and Ube Rolls. These baked goods contain undeclared wheat. Those with wheat sensitivities, gluten allergies, or celiac disease could become seriously ill should they consume these baked goods. These products were sold at Joy Joy’s Bakery in Lakewood, Washington and Fubonn Supermarket...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2FTtt1cB6ng The FDA and Sovos Brands Intermediate, Inc. are recalling Rao’s Made for Home Slow Simmered Soup, Chicken & Gnocchi. It turns out that the Chicken and Gnocchi cans actually contain Vegetable Minestrone soup which contains egg. Those with egg allergies could develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions should they consume this soup. Only soup wit...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/lzdFa4PCMoo The FDA and Daiso California LLC announce the recall of Matsunaga Mini Shiruko Sand Biscuits. These pastries have undeclared soy ingredients and were sold in Daiso stores in California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. If you purchased these biscuits, return them to any Daiso store for a full refund. For additional information, contact Dais...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/WlRxs0mrSf0 The FDA and Two Rivers Coffee are recalling single serve hot cocoa pods sold in Two Rivers Coffee, Brooklyn Bean, and Pingo variety packs. These pods are contaminated with peanut allergen. Those with peanut allergies could develop serious and life-threatening allergic reactions. Affected are all pods manufactured before January 23, 2023. If you bought any of t...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/2o9l4pQ95EQ Use of 3D bioprinting can produce faux-human skin with remarkably similar anatomic features to the real thing. That’s a relief to rabbits who traditionally had their eyes and ears subjected to pre-marketing tests of cosmetics destined for human use. A new Brazilian study compared the characteristics of bioprinted and manually-reconstructed skin. Evaluated were...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/7P4GJ-yNLMc As precision oncologic therapy advances, we are learning that many cancers respond only to a combination of chemotherapeutic agents. MIT, Harvard, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators in collaboration with the MIT spinoffs Ceptur Therapeutics and Window Therapeutics have developed unique nanoparticles shaped like bottle-brushes. These carrier molecul...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/WkD2-OCxmnY Three different nasal sprays, two by American university collaborators and the other by Canadian researchers, show promise new weapons against CoVid. One American entry developed by Northwestern, UWashington, and Washington University-St. Louis utilizes a computer-designed and optimized protein to coat the spikes of virtually any CoVid variant or sub variant a...

A Implantable Neural Chip Detects and Treats Seizures Vidcast: https://youtu.be/nPICqxAiVnM Teams of Swiss bioengineers have developed NeuralTree, a tiny ultralow power and energy efficient machine learning microprocessor that can be paired with a 256 channel high resolution sensing array. This implantable combo capably recognizes the electrical fingerprints that foreshadow a seizure and issues ti...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/YzwQGQEejkg Smoking before and during a pregnancy increases by 5 fold the risk that an infant will die suddenly over the months following birth. Rutgers University’s SIDS Center of New Jersey studied over one-half million white mother-child pairs and over 83,000 black mother-child pairs cataloging maternal smoking stats and the incidence of SIDS. The data shows that smoki...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/BNDUkyaGks8 Use of electronic cigarettes, compared with those containing tobacco, produces significantly more lung inflammation. This from a preliminary University of Pennsylvania study using PET imaging, that is positron emission tomography, with a novel radioactive tracer to quantitate pulmonary levels of the inflammatory enzyme nitric oxide synthetase. The investigator...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/nJPnFO3MCsE The next time you buy glitter, face paint, hair gel, nail polish, perfume, and lip gloss for your children, think poison. That’s the message from the Columbia School of Public Health. Researchers there surveyed 207 parents of 312 children 12 years or younger regarding their use of these products. A full 70% of the children used these play cosmetics with greate...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/vI_upzEONZQ The long CoVid definition, continuing symptoms for more than a month after an acute case of CoVid, was the one used by George Washington University researchers as they assessed 982 university students and 356 staff. Breaking down the numbers, 39% of students and 34% of staff developed long CoVid symptoms. Only 26% of those vaccinated and boosted were affected...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Tk1xJO_vRd8 When milk is added to coffee, it may well put a damper on destructive inflammation that turbocharged immune cells create. Food science researchers at the University of Copenhagen are investigating this possibility as they study the synergy between the anti-inflammatory agents polyphenols and protein-containing foods. Their experiments show that the anti-inflam...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/dn8vLyuR3sQ The FDA and the Almondy company are recalling Almondy Chocolate cake with Daim. A metal object has been found in cakes from batch #L2140 with a Best Before Date of NOV.18.2023. These cakes were only sold at IKEA stores. Don’t consume these cakes and return the product to the IKEA store where you made the purchase. For more information or an alternative way to...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/beg61R9bj0o The FDA and Snack Innovations, Inc. now recall certain lots of Drizzilicious Mini Rice Cake Bites and Drizzled Popcorn. These products have undeclared peanut antigens. Those with peanut allergies could develop life-threatening allergic reactions should they ingest these snacks. If you bought any of these products, do not consume them until you call Snack Innov...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/ZtwgD9zEBHo The CPSC and the Properly Tied company are recalling Properly Tied Children’s Lounge Pants. These garments fail to meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear. About 1,960 were sold at Sweet Threads, Britches and Bows, May May’s, The Carousel, Bundle of Joy, Dragonflies, Tugboat and the Bird, Lora Belle Baby, Peach Tree Kids, Hannah B's and ch...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/f7i5WDUCNbc The CPSC and the ZLINE company have extended their December, 2022 recall of the ZLINE 30 and 36 inch gas ranges to include their 48 inch gas ranges. The ovens on these ranges emit carbon monoxide at dangerous levels with risk of serious injury and death. About 30,000 of all these ranges including 2,000 48 inchers were sold at Best Buy, Lowe’s, The Home Depot,...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/OCHDha__p90 An adhesive dressing populated with hydrogel-anchored microneedles promises to revolutionize the on-site treatment of hemorrhaging wounds. UCLA bioengineers will be publishing this remarkable discovery in the May, 2023 edition of the Bioactive Materials journal. The tiny prongs jump-start blood clotting and quickly squelch the flow of blood. Testing the micron...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/g7fZjuKlmYc The Danish biotechnology company AdaptVac is developing a CoVid vaccine based on technology different than the mRNA tech used for the Moderna and Pfizer vaxes, the adenovirus vector J&J and AstraZeneca vaxes, and the protein-based Novavax offering. The AdaptVac vaccine, labeled ABNCoV2 uses a viral capsid-like particle derived from an E. coli bacteriophage...

We know that dogs can detect lung cancer, but the latest evidence from Paris suggests a diagnostic role for ants. Sorbonne animal behaviorists are reporting that ants can readily differentiate tumor-bearing mice from healthy ones by detecting tell-tale volatile organic compounds in urine. Ants lack noses but do have olfactory sensory receptors on their antennae. In the French experiments, half a g...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/F3saHuBYeEg Two separate studies give us a glimpse into the future of cardiac ultrasound, better known as echocardiography.  From UC-San Diego’s department of nanoengineering comes a wearable ultrasound imaging system that permits continuous visual assessment of the heart’s function in real time. The probe is exceedingly flexible permitting it to be gently bent, wrap...