Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIpUemBVmS/ The mattress can become displaced, trapping a baby between the sleeping pad and the bottom of the product and creating a suffocation hazard. The latching and locking mechanism can also fail, causing the sleeper to collapse. Affected: Model PAPA03001AI. About 248 units were sold online at Amazon.com and papablic.com from April 2025 through July 202...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIovC8PTpe/ The glass within these cups tends to break during use releasing foreign bodies and leading to lip and mouth laceration as well as ingestion risks. About 600 of these defective cups were sold nationwide. If you own one of these affected cups, stop using it immediately and register on the company's recall website  http://www.lovingthyselfrocks.c...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIoCWqvAW0/ These fake leather children's coin purses contain excessive levels of phthalates. These chemicals have been shown to create hormonal problems in preclinical studies. Affected: model 2595301. About 2,100 purses were sold at Primark stores in the Northeast, Florida, Maryland, and Illinois from March through June 2026.  If you own these recalled...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfInZrONk5T/ These high chairs, designed to become a table-and-chair set, lack a passive restraint system, allowing a child to slip through the opening between the feeding tray and seat.  About 3,332 high chairs were sold at Walmart and Target stores nationwide and online at Costway.com from May 2023 through July 2026.  If you own one of these high chairs, sto...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIm1khp8kN/ Children can access the button-cell batteries. If they do and they swallow these batteries, internal gastrointestinal burns can occur.  About 6,533 of these toys were sold on Amazon.com from March 2025 through August 2026.  If you own these toys, take them away from your children.  You will be asked to email a photograph showing the product proper...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfImLZeM4yN/ Certain manufacturing batches of these RSX luminaires with adjustable tilt-arm mountings have mounting joints that fail and allow the fixture to fall. Affected: batches AASP, AARP, AAWB, and AAWSC adjustable tilt-arm mountings manufactured between August 2019 and April 2026. About 11,532 units were sold nationwide through commercial distributors....

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIlAVMJuo1/ These thermal laminators overheat and create fire hazards. Affected: model TL1302Z. About 53,634 laminators were sold on Amazon.com from June 2024 through September 2026.  If you own this recalled laminator, stop using it and unplug it immediately. Contact 3M at 1-800-772-4337 for recall information. You will have to complete the online recall reg...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIkb-2hQd1/ 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. Affected: Frozen, vacuum-sealed 8-ounce packages with  lot D080-148 and a best-before date of November 27, 2027. The salmon was sold in Ne...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIjsKoO0QO/ Those with an allergy to sesame could develop a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction should they consume this product. Affected: 16-ounce packageswith best-by dates from September 10 through November 3, 2026. The rolls were sold at WinCo stores in:  California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.  If you have a sesame al...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIjJGVJ0Xd/ 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.  Affected: lot 085261, with a best-by date of March 26, 2028. The product was sold at Lidl stores in: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jer...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DfIic1_MMjH/ Affected: 2-pound clear plastic bags with pack dates 26-160, 26-173, 26-196, 26-224, or 26-258. The affected was sold tat stores in 22 states.  Affected states: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washingt...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De42GJWuOcn/ Can your brain process language and fabricate prediction when you’re unconscious? Answers come from neuroscientists at Baylor College of Medicine in studies published in the journal Nature. The scientists studied patients undergoing epilepsy surgery and recorded electrical activity from hundreds of individual neurons in the hippocampus, a brain re...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De41YichHAF/ The answer comes from clinical physiologists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet. They followed 427 men and women born in 1958, tracking their physical performance from age 16 through age 63.  Their data show that aerobic fitness and muscular endurance generally peaks between ages 26 and 36. By age 35, physical performance begins a gradual decline....

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De40dj0MqTg/ This possibility is even more likely if you are a bird. So report Penn State  biomedical physiologists reporting their studies of 12 guinea fowl in the journal Royal Society Proceedings B . In the experiments, half of the birds carried small weights on one leg during development while the other half did not. At 16 weeks, researchers measured how m...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4zuLEP5v8/ Taiwanese researchers now report to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes that injections of the peptide CBL-514 significantly shrink deposits of body fat. The compound works by selectively causing fat cells to self-destruct. In phase two clinical trials, participants receiving the CBL-514 experience an average reduction of about 12%...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4y7mcuN6a/ Japanese endocrinologists at Kyoto University publish this surprising effect they observed in mouse studies in the journal Diabetes . When both diabetic and normal mice are fed olive oil 15 minutes before glucose, their initial blood sugar rise is significantly smaller than when they receive the carbohydrates first. The olive oil slows stomach emp...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4yQMihPdL/ Hungarian social scientists studied smartphone habits in 225 adults ages 18 to 35. About one-third of the participants were classified as heavy-process users, spending much of their time phone scrolling and consuming content rather than communicating in the real world. Their study was published in the journal Acta Psychologica .  Their data show t...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4xFdkMwTH/ The calorie count listed on food labels doesn’t tell the entire story? Biodesign researchers at Arizona State University now publish in the journal PLOS One their mathematical model showing how the bacteria in your gastrointestinal system help determine how much energy your body actually absorbs from food.  Their model, called DAMM standing for Di...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4wFKju0rl/ Could the compound that gives vanilla its familiar flavor help heal wounds that refuse to heal? Biomedical nanoengineers at Australia’s Flinders University now publish a review article in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics cataloging the beneficial properties of vanillin, vanilla’s signature compound. They describe its potential antibacter...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4vctouRlC/ Imagine this! A tiny device injectable through a needle and powered wirelessly offers a new approach for managing chronic pain and movement disorders. All this without the batteries, connecting wires, or surgically implanted hardware used in current pain control systems. This technology was developed by NYU bioengineers and Cleveland Clinic  gastr...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4uwd5h7na/ Persistent loneliness costs you up to nearly 6 years of healthy life. This from new research by Tulane University epidemiologists working with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the journal Nature. The researchers analyzed health information from nearly 277,500 adults between the ages of 40 and 69. They examined how...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4t7HphAMK/ Yale orthopedic researchers now report in the journal Bioactive Materials that the epilepsy drug lacosamide, LCM for short and branded as Vimpat, injected periodically into a joint, reduces the pain of osteoarthritis and shifts cartilage cell activity toward repair rather than destruction.  The Yale team finds that LCM inhibits a protein called Na...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4s8wJBjxj/ Stanford biologists have developed a molecule that converts a protein responsible for stimulating lymphoma growth into a trigger for cancer-cell death. Their mouse studies are now published in the journal Cell . Their research focuses on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Many of these cancers flourish und...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4sEr8M8P1/ Experiments in mice supported these findings. Animals receiving an antibiotic while consuming sucrose developed substantially larger populations of toxic intestinal bacteria than controls. The researchers suggest that dietary sugar gives harmful bacteria additional fuel to grow while antibiotics weaken the competition. The precise mechanism still...

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/De4rD0RuUG_/ All of our knee cartilages deteriorate with age and injury due to an increase in the destructive enzyme 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase or 15-PGDH. Now, Stanford University biologists and orthopedic surgeons demonstrate that blocking this enzyme stops this process and even restores already damaged cartilage. Their studies, published in the...