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Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Howard G. Smith MD, AM

Howard G. Smith MD, AM has been reporting health and wellness news for more than 35 years on radio and via podcasts. Harvard Medical School, MD; Harvard University, AM, Immunology; former Medical Editor, WBZ-AM, Boston. Website: http://www.drhowardsmith.com Email: drhowardsmith.reports@gmail.com

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00:01:30

RYOBI Electric Pressure Washers Fire Projectiles At You

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWln1VjF6X/Capacitors inside these units burst, eject parts at high speed, and create a serious projectile hazard that leads to user or bystander injuries. Affected are models RY142300 and RY142711VNM.About 764,000 pressure washers were sold in the US and about 16,000 were sold in Canada at Home Depot and Direct Tools Factory Outlet stores nationwide as well as online at homedepot.com and directtoolsoutlet.com from July 2017 through June 2024.Stop using these

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00:01:45

C.A.M.P. Nimbus Lock Carabiners Make You Fall

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWknWtjnEx/Their automatic closing mechanisms are dangerously defective and prevent the gate from closing with risks of falls, serious injuries, and death. These carabiners were sold individually and in packs including the Nimbus Lock 3 Pack, Locker Draw KS, Energy CR3 Pack, and Energy Nova Pack. About 12,600 carabiners were sold in the US and about 2,100 were sold in Canada at REI, Portland Mountain Shop, How Not 2, and other stores nationwide, as well as

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00:01:13

DT Swiss Carbon Fiber Road Wheels Shatter

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

DT Swiss Carbon Fiber Road Wheels ShatterVidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWjwKij5GQ/Defects in these wheels compromise their structural integrity and create crash and injury hazards. Affected are lot numbers with DT Swiss ID code 2740000 or higher.About 6,000 wheels were sold in the US, and about 150 were sold in Canada at independent bicycle dealers nationwide and also sold as original equipment on various bicycle brands from September 2024 through July 2025.Stop using these recalled wheels

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00:01:05

Lulive 12-Drawer Dressers Crush Children

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWi1yMDXea/These dressers are unstable if not anchored to the wall and pose a serious tip-over and entrapment hazard that can result in injury or death to children. Affected is lot number KF-X9Y.About 3,500 of these dressers were sold on Amazon between March 2025 and June 2025.Stop filling these recalled dressers immediately if they are not anchored to the wall.Place them in an area children cannot access. Contact Lulive at 1-866-610-4348 or by email at

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00:01:22

Makita Professional Cordless Grease Guns and Makita...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWiCrCiY1x/The recall is due to a laceration hazard, as the flexible grease gun hose can develop a hole and eject grease during use leading to laceration hazards. Affected are models XPG01S1, XPG01SR1, XPG01Z and hose models 191A79-9, 191A80-4, 191W58-9, and 191W59-7.About 62,927 of these products have been sold at hardware and home improvement stores and on various websites from June 2020 through January 2025.Stop using these recalled grease guns and hoses and

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00:01:05

URMYWO Baby Loungers Could Suffocate Your Baby

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/09/08

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOWgRVpDxZ8/These loungers violate mandatory standards for infant sleep products. The sides are shorter than required, the sleeping pads are too thick, and an infant can fall out or become entrapped. Affected is model UMCZC01AE.About 23,000 of these dangerous baby loungers have been sold on Amazon from January 2024 through April 2025Immediately stop using these baby loungers and contact Pomona by email at urmyworecall@yundnetwork.com or urmyworecall@outlook.com

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00:01:49

Are You Suffering From Dietary Nightmares?

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN0_LWeXrmH/The answer is yes if you can’t tolerate certain foods such as those containing lactose. Canadian sleep researchers at the University of Montreal and MacEwan University surveyed 1082 college students and found an impressive link between nightmares and diet.Data gathered included dietary information, food intolerances, allergies, personality type, measures of sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and dreams using the Nightmare

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00:02:15

A Vaccine Against Pancreatic Cancer

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN0-HNvXPcP/An already FDA-approved cancer vaccine was spectacularly effective in controlling pancreatic cancers that carry the KRAS markers. A multi-center phase 1 study, helmed by oncologists at New York’s Sloan Kettering and Texas’ MD Anderson, studied the vaccine labeled ELI-002 developed by Boston’s Elicio Therapeutics. The results demonstrated that the vaccine can trigger a vigorous killer T cell response to this KRAS marker carried by 88% of pancreatic

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00:01:11

Laughing Gas Fun Is Deadly

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN09U9v2nzK/I recently reported the troubling surge in laughing gas recreational use highlighting the damage that this nitrous oxide gas can do to your mouth and throat as it cools. This rising use of the drug is also killing more of us each year. I am sad to report that 1240 Americans lost their live sto nitrous oxide poisoning between the years 2010 and 2023.This widely-used medicinal gas safely helps to smooth the induction of general anesthesia in the

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00:01:40

Halting Knee Osteoarthritis Without Medications Or...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN08cgWau2f/What’s the trick? A small modification in your walking gait could delay any need for knee replacement surgery for years. So say University of Utah bioengineers and musculoskeletal researchers after studying a select group of 68 patients with knee arthritis in a year-long placebo-controlled trial.Their Lancet Rheumotology study revealed that a slight change in the foot angle while walking reduced both the pain and destructive changes of

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00:01:37

Ultra-Sensitive Rapid Disease Detection

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN07cQI3q01/Gold nanoparticles, coated with specific antibodies to viruses, bacteria, or virtually any disease-causing agent, now form the basis of a diagnostic system 100,000 times more sensitive than current technologies and capable of delivering a result in about 15 minutes. Molecular bioengineers at Arizona State University have developed the reagents and the detection device they’ve named the NasRED, which stands for Nanoparticle-Supported Rapid Electronic

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00:01:14

Novel Approach To Transplant Immunosuppression

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN06krQ2q-f/Immunologists at the Medical University of South Carolina have found a way to direct the body’s immune system to censor itself permitting transplanted human organs to flourish with medicinal immunosuppression. Their study appeared recently in Frontiers in Immunology.The investigators genetically engineered so-called regulatory T cells, Treg lymphocytes, to selectively destroy those B lymphocytes programmed to produce the antibodies that attack

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00:02:02

Bacteria As Trojan Horses To Kill Tumor Cells

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN05tuXXix_/In the search for ever more effective and selective ways to fight cancer, researchers at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in collaboration with those at Rockefeller University have bioengineered a bacterium that selectively ferries a cell-killing virus into cancer cells. They call this system CAPPSID which stands for Coordinated Activity of Prokaryote and Picornavirus for Safe Intracellular Delivery.The prokaryote in

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00:03:08

Are you aware Of The Ticking Time Bomb That Is High...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN04xTN2nvK/Blah, blah blah you’re thinking. Yea, yea, yea Dr. Smith I’ve heard this all before. PLEASE don’t click off and give me a couple minutes to help you save your own life or the lives of those you love.An astounding 77% of Americans do not know that blood pressures greater than 130/80 are a significant risk for heart attack and stroke as well as dementia, kidney failure, and blindness. One in 4 still think the numbers are the old cutoffs 140/90. So

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00:01:30

CoVid Infections Age Your Blood Vessels

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN038nZ3AWE/Even a mild case of CoVid will age your vital arteries 5 years. This from a study by French cardiologists recently published in the European Heart Journal. The cardiovascular researchers studied data from 2090 individuals in 16 countries from late 2020 through early 2022. Arterial aging was estimated by measuring the degree of vessel stiffness using pulse wave propagation measurements. The negative effects of a CoVid infection were more

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00:01:43

Clear-type E-Cigarettes Rot Your Heart Faster

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/26

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DN023UfWjJq/So-called “clear e-cigarettes that contain synthetic cooling agents trigger greater blood pressure and heart rate increases than menthol flavored e-cigarettes. Yale and Boston University researchers issue this warning following their study of 200 young adult vapers and non-vapers. They analyzed 3 groups: 23 clear-ecig vapers; 111 non-clear vapers; and 73 non-vapers. Their paper appears in the Journal of the American Heart Association.These “clear”

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00:00:59

Fromi USA Brie Royal Faucon Cheese Is Listeria...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/23

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNrzfRnaKSG/This bacteria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems. It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. Affected is Lot Number 615.About 12 cases of this cheese was sold at Cheese Plate Brooklyn – Park Slope and Cheese Plate Brooklyn – Carroll Gardens between July 24 and August 13, 2025.Return this cheese to the place of purchase for a full refund. For

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00:01:35

Middlefield Original Cheese Co-Op’s Products Have...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/23

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNrymjdWsfn/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. The affected items include 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese with Lot Code 251661; Copia Collective 100% Grass-Fed Pepper Jack Cheese with Lot Code 251661; Horseradish Flavored Cheese with Lot Code 2524061; Monterey Jack Cheese with Lot Code

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00:01:37

Sand Bar, Arctic Shores, Best Yet, Great American,...

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/22

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNq6jI3M-Yh/These frozen shrimp are contaminated with the radionuclide Cesium-137. Cesium-137 is a man-made radioisotope, and long-term, repeated low-dose exposure may increase the risk of cancer. Affected products include raw and cooked frozen shrimp with lot numbers including 087305, 095944, 111154, 095946, 109562, 109540, 109541, 109542, 125143, 130632, 128267, 134010, and 128275. The frozen shrimp were sold in Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts,

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00:01:15

Remington Hair Dryers Electrocute

Dr. Howard Smith Reports ·

2025/08/22

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DNq54scp_T2/These hair dryers lack an immersion protection device thereby creating a risk of death or serious injury from electrocution or shock if the hair dryers fall into water while plugged in. Affected is model number D3190DCDNAbout 56,300 hairdryers were sold in the US at Walmart Marketplace, Target Marketplace, and Amazon from March 2024.Immediately unplug and stop using these dangerous hair dryers. To receive a full refund, submit a photo of the hair

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