Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi_UJvt2vM/These bottles have lids that forcefully eject when opened if food, carbonated beverages, or perishable drinks like juice or milk that generate gas have been stored inside. This leads to serious impact and laceration risks. Two bottle  owners have suffered permanent vision loss after being struck in the eye by  these ejected lids.  Affected is model number 83-662.About 850,000 of these stainless steel water bottles have been sold exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide and online at Walmart.com since 2017.Immediately stop using these recalled water bottles and return them to any Walmart store for a full refund. Alternatively, you can call Walmart at 1-800-925-6278 to arrange the refund.  If you need more information, can call Walmart or visit walmart.com/help or corporate.walmart.com/recalls.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Walmart-Recalls-Ozark-Trail-64-oz-Water-Bottles-Due-to-Serious-Impact-and-Laceration-Hazards#walmart #ozarktrail #waterbottle #lids #proj

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi-YWVuRFP/These mattresses violate the mandatory federal standard for crib mattresses because they exceed the allowable thickness and have deadly gaps between the mattress and side wall that create an entrapment hazard.  These violations can lead to suffocation or death if an infant’s face becomes trapped between the mattress and a play yard wall. Affected is model m-sy2.About 21,500 mattresses were sold online through Amazon between December 2024 and June 2025.Immediately stop permitting your children to sleep on these recalled mattresses. To receive a full refund, cut the mattress in half, place it in a trash bin, and send a photo of the destroyed and disposed product to Kbabyea at Kbabyearecall@outlook.com. For additional information or assistance, email the company using the same email.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Creekliybear-Play-Yard-Mattresses-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Entrapment-Hazard-Violates-Mandatory-Standard-for-Crib-Mattres

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi9lUKJjFr/If not anchored to a wall, these loaded dressers are unstable, tip-over, entrap,  injure, and, in some cases, kill children. Affected is model number ASNG105About 6,600 recalled dressers were sold exclusively on Amazon from April 2024 through May 2025.Immediately stop loading and using these recalled dressers until they are securely anchored to a wall.  Unanchored dressers should be moved to an area out of children’s reach. To qualify for a full refund, follow the disposal instructions provided by WLIVE at wlive.com and submit a photo of the discarded dresser to wliveproductrecall@wlivehome.com. For more information, contact WLIVE at 1-833-367-7572 or via the email wliveproductrecall@wlivehome.com.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/WLIVE-Fabric-Dressers-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Tip-Over-and-Entrapment-Hazards-Violations-of-Federal-Standard-for-Clothing-Storage-Units-Sold-on-Amazon-by-WLIVE#wlive #dresser #tipover #entrapment #injury

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi2sZZvpLi/This group of recalled ramps cannot safely handle the weight limits printed on their labels. The ramps bend and break during use creating injury risks. This recall includes the Traveller 3,000 lb. 12” x 90” Aluminum Sheet Arched Ramp, the Traveller 1,800 lb. 77” Straight Ramp, and the Traveller 1,500 lb. 12” x 84” Aluminum Sheet Arched Ramp.About 18,000 ramps were sold nationwide at Tractor Supply Company stores and online at tractorsupply.com from October 2024 through July 2025.Stop using these recalled ramps. Return them to any Tractor Supply store for a full refund. Alternatively, you may email a photo of the product clearly marked “Recalled” in permanent paint along with your contact information to customersolutions@tractorsupply.com. For more information, contact Tractor Supply at 1-877-718-6750.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Tractor-Supply-Recalls-Traveller-Aluminum-Loading-Ramps-Due-to-Fall-Hazard#tractorsupply #traveller #ramps #collapse #injuries #

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi2GTQsHOt/These steamers leak steam or spew boiling water during use creating burn hazards. Affected is model number DF-958.About 23,000 units were sold nationwide exclusively on the Home Shopping Network from November 2024 through April 2025.Stop using these recalled steamers. To receive your refund, unplug the steamer and cut the power cord near its connection to the device, and take a photo of the damage. Submit the  photo along with you contact details should be submitted at thedeale.com/pages/casaclean-safety-recall.  If you need more information, contact Deale International at 1-877-880-6137.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Deale-International-Recalls-CasaClean-Handheld-Steamers-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-Sold-on-HSN#deale #steamer #leakage #burns #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi1N6otONW/The lithium-ion batteries in these portable chargers overheat and burn while charging creating serious fire and burn hazards. Affected is model IST-09991/W05.About 8,520 power banks were sold in the United States and 6,400 units were sold in Canada all at vending machines and retail stores in airports as well as online at iStore.co between February 2023 and May 2025.Stop using these recalled power banks. To receive a refund, visit the company’s recall website istore.co/pages/battery-recall and submit two photos: one showing the front of the power bank marked “Recalled” with the date written in permanent marker, and the second showing the model number printed on the back. A receipt is not required. Then safely dispose of the power bank at a local hazardous waste recycling center. For more information, contact iStore at 1-800-268-4049 or via the email recall@istore.co.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/iStore-Magnetic-Wireless-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMi0IRbtFtn/Their USB modules, located in the arm of the chair, overheat, spark, and create fire risks.About 9,030 chairs were sold in the US and 6 were sold in Canada at Crate Kids and major retailers such as Amazon, Target, Babylist, Pottery Barn Kids, Wayfair, and Babyletto’s own website between May 2023 and February 2025. Stop using these recalled chairs and visit babylettorecall.com to register your product.  Then follow the included installation instructions to receive a free repair kit. After completing the repair, dispose of the original USB module in regular household trash.  For more information, contact Babyletto at 1-866-621-9483 or via the email kiwi.recall@babyletto.com.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Bexco-Enterprises-Recalls-Kiwi-Electronic-Recliner-and-Swivel-Gliders-with-USB-Port-Due-to-Overheating-Hazard#Babyletto #recliners #gliders #usb #overheating #fires #burns #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMizC1PJ2DY/VIVI 36-volt lithium-ion batteries sold with VIVI brand electric bicycles overheat creating fire and burn hazards. Affected are battery models C26, MT20, Z3, M026SH, H6, H7, MT26H, 26LGB, M026TGB, MT26G, FM20, F20, S3, Z1, and Z2.About 24,000 batteries were sold with e-bikes in the United States by Amazon, Walmart, eBay, the VIVI website, Wish, Sears, Wayfair, and AliExpress between December 2020 and November 2023.Immediately stop riding these e-bikes and charging their batteries.   Contact VIVI at 1-800-375-6103 or visi viviebikes.com/pages/recall to obtain a free replacement battery and charger by emailing proof that the battery has been properly disposed of at a local household hazardous waste collection center to vivirecall@163.com.https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/VIVI-E-Bikes-Lithium-ion-Batteries-Sold-with-VIVI-E-Bikes-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-Sold-by-VIVI#vivi #ebike #battery #lithiumion #overheating #fire #

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMip_ZnuR9I/These pools have compression straps running around the outside and over the vertical support legs that provide a foothold for children to climb up into the pools.  This design flaw has contributed to nine tragic drowning deaths of young children between 2007 and 2022.   The affected brands and models include Bestway’s Power Steel and Steel Pro, Intex’s Metal Frame, Prism Frame, Ultra Frame, and Ultra XTR models, as well as Polygroup’s Summer Waves, Summer Escapes, Funsicle, Sand n Sun, and Blue Wave.About five million pools sold in the US and about 266,000 were sold in Canada at Walmart, Target, Sears, Lowe’s, Kmart, Toys “R” Us, Sam’s Club, The Home Depot, Big Lots, Costco, and BJ’s, as well as online through Amazon, Wayfair, and manufacturer websites.  All sales since 2002.If you own one of these pools, immediately contact Bestway, Intex, or Polygroup to receive a free repair kit. The kit includes a rope that secures the pool’s structural integrity, replacin

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYejqzMmN6/I Inhaling nitrous oxide from pressurized canisters, commonly called doing “whippets” or “ballooning,” filling balloons with the gas, can damage your mouth, voice box, and respiratory tract. A case report from the University of Virginia in the New England Journal of Medicine documents the nasty side of laughing gas use.A 23-year-old man presented to doctors there with a 2 day history of painful swallowing and hoarseness just following use of a “whippet” canister. Examination revealed swelling, redness, and peeling mouth and throat linings and a nasty ulceration on his right vocal cord. The cause of these injuries: frostbite.  Nitrous oxide, stored in pressurized liquid form, rapidly cools when released and converted to a gas. Inhaling it directly from a canister can expose your mouth and throat to extreme cold with partial or complete freezing and tissue damage similar to what you’d get from frostbite.The patient in question received oral and topical painkille

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYd0kbMb1M/Two-thirds of us in the United States drink coffee every day and three-quarters of us drink it at least once a week.  Coffee and the caffeine it contains can be a problem for a number of medications prescribed by your medical team or bought by you on your own.Most common are cold and flu drugs.  Coffee’s caffeine turbocharges the effects of the decongestant pseudoephedrine, branded as Sudafed, or systemically-absorbed decongestant nasal sprays such as Afrin.  That will give you the jitters, headaches, restlessness, insomnia, an elevated heart rate, temperature bump, and a even a higher blood sugar.The caffeine in coffee, chemically similar to the amphetamines in ADHD - hyperactivity suppressing medications, raises your heart rate and keep you from getting to sleep.Then too, drinking coffee within an hour of taking the thyroid drug levothyroxine, branded as Synthroid,  or the anti-osteoporosis medications biphosphonate drugs Fosamax, Actonel, or Boniva reduces

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYclQUtf3d/The bioengineering wizards at MIT’s Yang Center for Bionics have developed the most advanced prosthesis for above-knee amputees.  Termed the osseointegrated mechanoneural prosthesis or OMP, it combines a sophisticated bionic knee with a titanium implant in the femur and connections into the wearer’s thigh muscles and nervous system permitting thought control of the units motions.The clinical trial participants using the OMP walked faster, climbed stairs more readily, and were able to avoid obstacles better than those using more conventional prostheses. Users also reported that their limb felt like a part of their body due to improved sensory feedback.This prosthesis represents a new level of integration between human and machine.  Fitting with this prosthesis requires special surgical considerations at the time of amputation.Further refinements and clinical trials lie ahead, and the developers expect this cutting edge prosthesis will be widely available in abo

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYbs7tJz7Q/A new so-called “tetra-functional” diet compound has added power and its effects match the weight loss result of bariatric surgery. Chemists at Boston’s Tufts University have engineered a next-generation compound that mimics the action of four different gut hormones involved in appetite control, metabolism, and energy use.  They are GLP-1, GIP, glucagon, and the uncommonly mimicked PYY.This novel chimeric peptide could deliver up to 30% body weight loss.  That effect exceeds the effects of our current crop of weight loss drugs semaglutide and tirzepatide, marketed as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro.  Semaglutide mimics only GLP1 while tirzepatide mimics both GLP1 and GIP.This compound is newly discovered and not yet ready for clinical application.  When it is, this powerful agent will be an invaluable help for those suffering from excess weight and weight-induced health problems including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.  The hope is that it will quickly mov

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYbAAEvCa2/The trend in the US and elsewhere around the globe is for children to enter puberty at earlier ages.  Researchers are searching for an explanation, and the sweet and sweetened foods that preteens consume may hold at least a partial answer.  It turns out that, for boys, the artificial sweetener sucralose, found in Splenda and many foods and drinks, increases the risk of so-called precocious puberty.   For girls, glycyrrhizin, found in licorice, herbal teas, and other drinks as well as sucralose and natural sugars all increase a preteen girl’s likelihood of earlier puberty.  Chinese researchers presented studies supporting these conclusions recently to the Endocrine Society’s 2025 annual meeting.  Their research included data from 1,407 teens.  The early puberty diagnosis was based on medical exams, hormone levels, and scans   The teens' sweetener and sweets intake was quantitated via validated questionnaires and urine tests. These findings, if confirmed, co

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYaR0etDWt/Up to 12% of women are allergic to male fluids released during intimacy leading not only to painful and embarrassing rashes and itching but more often to systemic symptoms.  A meta-analysis by OB-GYN investigators at Brooklyn’s University Hospital at Downstate analysed 53 studies with women aged 18 to 45 and an average age of 29.A full 60% of the women reported generalized systemic symptoms including widespread itch and rashes, cough, shortness of breath, heart racing, blood pressure drops, dizziness, fainting, facial swelling, nasal congestion, and gastrointestinal symptoms.  The other 40% reported more localized skin reactions.  A small number of cases progressed from local to systemic.This phenomenon, known to doctors as Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity, is not new having been first described in 1967.  It is not due to sperm but rather causes by the fluids suspending them.  Localized versions are often misdiagnosed as infections.  This hypersensitivity, whil

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYZfCgvjNU/The use of LED lights significantly improved acne with a nearly 50% reduction of unsightly skin lesions.  Dermatology researchers from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital report this result following their meta-analysis of 6 studies covering 216 participants with ages ranging from 12 to 50 years.Compared with controls, those using LED lights for one to three months enjoyed a 45% reduction of inflammatory lesions, a 48% drop in non-inflammatory lesions, and a 46% improvement in general appearance as assessed by professional observers.  Red and blue wavelengths as well as combinations of these two were most effective.  There were no adverse reactions to this light exposure.These devices are widely available online with prices ranging from 150$ for face masks to 250$ for more extensive light arrays.  For safety’s sake, these devices should be used as directed by your dermatologist.  They make an effective medication-free alternative for acne management.https:/

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYYGQHJoa9/Those consistently eating healthy plant-based foods were half as likely to fall victim to cardiac disease as those on a typical western diet.  Johns Hopkins epidemiologists reviewed data from 7,708 respondents, mean age 45 years, replying to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.  The participants were divided into 4 groups according to their reported consumption of health plant-based foods, and their susceptibility to cardiac disease was quantified by measurement of their circulating cardiac troponins and n-termination natiuretic peptides.The results showed that the risk having of elevated circulating cardiac biomarkers, a sign of cardiac disease, was 49%% lower for those eating the most healthy plant-based diets compared with those consuming the least.  The healthiest plant-based foods included fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, and olive or canola oils.  On the other hand, those eating the worst diets containing red meat, fried foods, a

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DMYXNKuvaTI/Adolescent vapers taking the drug varenicline, branded as Chantix, were 8 times more likely to abandon the practice compared with those receiving behavioral counseling and a quit-vaping text program.  This the finding from a study by Harvard’s Mass General Hospital psychiatrists studying addiction in young adults.Their trial included 261 adolescents 16 to 25 receiving either the test drug, a placebo drug, or conventional counseling over a 3 month period.   When the data were tabulated, 51% of those on varenicline had completely stopped vaping, compared with 14% in the placebo group, and about 6% receiving counseling.  The effect was lasting with more than half of the Chantix group remaining vape-free 6 months after stopping therapy.With 1.6 million American middle and high school kids vaping in 2024 according to the CDC, an effective medication to help drive vaping cessation is more than welcome.  Chantix is a prescription drug, so parents do speak with your c

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DME-WujN8qd/Certain individually wrapped packs inside recalled cartons of peanut butter crackers are mislabeled as the Cheese variety even though they contain peanut butter. The outer cartons are correctly labeled, but these individual packets pose a risk to individuals with a peanut allergy.Affected are the 8-count, 20-count, and 40-count cartons of RITZ Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches, as well as the 20-count RITZ Filled Cracker Sandwich Variety Pack with “Best When Used By” dates ranging from November 1, 2025 to January 22, 2026.Those with a peanut allergy should not eat these products.  Discard the affected cartons. To request a refund or get more information, contact Mondelēz Global LLC at 1-844-366-1171.https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/mondelez-global-llc-conducts-us-voluntary-recall-four-carton-sizes-ritz-peanut-butter-cracker#ritz #peanutbutter #crackers #cheese #allergy #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DME9wFQsmtn/This recall affects 12-ounce pouches with sell-by dates of May 7, 2026 and May 28, 2026, as well as 8-count boxes of 1.5-ounce packs with a sell-by date of May 5, 2026.These recalled almonds were sold by Meijer stores in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.Stop consuming these recalled almonds and return them to the customer service desk at any Meijer store for a full refund. For questions, contact Meijer’s customer service at 1-800-543-3704.https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/meijer-issues-recall-frederiks-dark-chocolate-almonds-due-presence-undeclared-cashews#frederiks #almonds #cashews #allergy #recall