Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwemiCKL-vn/

Recall by: CPSC; Simplay3 

Problem: These towers tip over creating fall and injury hazards to the children using them.

Sold: About 108,450 were sold in the US and about 5512 were sold in Canada online at TheSimplay3company.com, Amazon.com, Target.com, Walmart.com, and other web sites and at Buttercup Baby Store, Fun Stuff, Midstates, and other toy stores nationwide.

Actions: Do not permit your children to play on these towers.  Contact Simplay3 at 1-866-855-0100 to receive a free set of stabilizing bases that attach to and stabilize the toddler tower.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/The-Simplay3-Company-Recalls-Toddler-Towers-Due-to-Fall-and-Injury-Hazards

#toddlertower #simplay3 #instability #falls #injuries #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwelprvMpnK/

Recall by: CPSC; Midwest Lubricants

Problem: This product is not sold in child-resistant containers.  The sodium hydroxide is caustic with a risk of chemical burns to the skin and eyes.

Sold: 3,000 containers of this lye were sold at midwestlubricants.com and amazon.com.

Actions: Immediately store this product in secure spot away from children.  Contact Midwest Lubricants at 1-833-791-7335 or via the email [email protected] to obtain a free replacement with child-resistant packaging and a new label.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Midwest-Lubricants-Recalls-Sodium-Hydroxide-Products-Due-to-Failure-to-Meet-Child-Resistant-Packaging-and-FHSA-Labeling-Requirements-Recall-Alert

#midwestlaboratories #sodiumhydroxide #childresistant #burns #recall

Recall by: CPSC; Costco

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwekLKvurZW/

Problem: These Ubio-branded batteries may overheat and ignite causing fires and burns.

Sold: About 350K power banks were sold nationwide by Costco and online at Costco.com.

Actions:  Stop using these power banks.  Return the unit to Costco stores or call Costco at 1-800-774-2678 for a refund or for more information.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Costco-Recalls-Ubio-Labs-Power-Banks-Due-to-Fire-Hazard-Caught-Fire-on-Commercial-Flight-Recall-Alert

#costco #powerbank #lithiumbattery #fire #burns #recall

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcOmTuRtOH/ 

 tattoos, nanotatoos, nanotechnology, monitor, goldJohns Hopkins bimolecular engineers have developed complex nano-tattoos that adhere to individual cells and measure function.  These flexible nano-tattoos may harbor optical and electronic sensors and are constructed in arrays using gold micro-wiring.  The microarrays are attached to a dissolvable hydrogel film with molecular glues.  The tattoos are non-toxic and remain on the cells for prolonged intervals.  These tattooed gold microcircuits will drive biomonitoring to new heights…..someday soon.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01960

#tattoos #nanotatoos #nanotechnology #monitor #gold

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcNfiINuFZ/

Bioengineers at Britain’s University of Leeds have developed soft, silicone robotic tentacles, manipulated by external magnetic fields, that will allow minimally invasive microsurgery deep within the lungs.  These tiny devices, only 2 millimeters in diameter, are capable of traveling 37% further into your airways compared with conventional surgical equipment.  The spiral devices contain strings of small magnets that not only provide propulsion but also permit surgeons to reshape the device allowing it to penetrate into even smaller bronchioles.  This device will permit sampling, removal, and even treatment of respiratory lining tumors without major surgery…..someday soon.

https://www.medgadget.com/2023/08/magnetic-tentacle-robots-for-minimally-invasive-procedures.html

#roboticsurgery #minimallyinvasive #lung #cancer #magnetic

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcMdBzsuYk/

From Boston’s Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary comes the report of an exciting Phase 1 trial using an patient’s own eye stem cells to repair a chemically burned cornea.  In this preliminary study of the so-called CALEC procedure which stands for cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation, 4 patients with burned corneas each received stem cells from their own cornea limbus following cultivation and amplification of cell numbers in tissue cultures.  The limbus is a stem cell rich zone between the corneal edge and the white sclera that normally produces enough new cells to effect repairs without assistance.  Chemically burned limbal zones do not.  Two of the patients enjoyed sufficient corneal regrowth that they required no further therapy.  The other two had sufficient corneal repair to become candidates for corneal transplants.  Studies are now underway on 15 additional patients as the next step toward offering this option to even more patients….someday soon.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg6470

#cornea #chemicalburns  #cornealtransplantation #limbus #stemcells #ophthalmology

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcLTpDrGPD/

For the first time, the Nobel Prize winning CRISPR gene editing technology has successfully inactivated an HIV-like virus from primate cells.  Temple University microbiologists employed a single dose of an injectable gene editing therapy known as EBT-101, developed by Excision Biotherapeutics Inc., to successfully and permanently neutralize the HIV-like Simian Immunodeficiency Virus in rhesus monkeys.  The gene editing agent was well distributed throughout the test animals bodies.  After these exciting preclinical results, the agent is already being adapted for humans to attack the HIV virus……someday soon.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41434-023-00410-4

#geneediting #crispr #hiv #aids #monkeys #ebt

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcKMUXsF2R/

Permitting infants to view tv, phone, pad, or computer screens over their first year of life leads to markedly faulty communication and problem-solving skills.  Japanese child development researchers report this finding following their study of 7,097 children.

Of the group 48.5% watched less than an hour a day and served as controls, 29.5% watched 1-2 hours/day, 17.9% watched 2-4 hours/day, and 4.1% watched 4 or more hours/day.  Developmental analyses at 2 years revealed that those infants watching 1-2 hrs/day compared with less than 1 hour had a 61% higher risk of communication delays.  That risk doubled (2.04) for those watching 2-4 hrs, and was almost 5-fold higher (4.78) for those watching 4 hrs or more a day.  Problem solving was also impaired by 2 years with a 40% higher risk for those watching 2-4 hrs/day and a nearly 3-fold (2.67) risk for those watching 4 hrs or more.

While it is tempting to use video as an electronic nanny, think twice about permitting your baby to gaze at the screen hour after hour.

http://tiny.cc/145avz

#infants #parenting #screentime #smartphones #digitpads #computer #development #communication #problemsolving

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcJH3Xtu2_/

Those contracting a CoVid infection are 1.5 to 2 times more likely than flu patients to develop a new case of persisting hypertension.  Investigators at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied 45,398 CoVid patients and 13,864 influenza patients infected between 2020 and 2022.

The analysis revealed that a CoVid infection requiring hospitalization made it 31% more likely that high blood pressure would develop in comparison to an influenza infection also requiring hospital care.  Outpatients with CoVid were 4 times more likely than flu patients to become hypertensive.  Development of CoVid-related hypertension was more common in those over 40, in black adults, and in those with pre-existing lung, heart, or kidney disease.

So…..If you develop CoVid, be certain to keep an eye on your blood pressure and seek treatment if it is elevated.  Timely intervention could prevent a heart attack or a stroke.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.21174

#CoVid #hypertension #hospitalization #outpatient #heaertattack #stroke #lung #kidney

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CwcH30nvWFJ/

Playing organized American football was associated with a 61% greater risk of eventually developing Parkinson’s Disease.  Neurologic disease investigators at Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers surveyed 1875 men for diagnoses of Parkinson’s and tabulated their participation in football or other sports looking at duration, level, and age of first play.

Of the group, 85% were diagnosed with Parkinson’s, 39% played football for a mean duration of 4.4 years.  Any play increased the odds of Parkinson’s by 61%, longer duration of play increased risk by 12% but a higher level of play increased the odds nearly 3-fold (2.93).

BU neurologists were the first to recognize CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in professional football players.  They now present this evidence that repeated head trauma on the gridiron may also lead to Parkinson’s Disease.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808207

#football #parkinsons #cte #headtrauma #encephalopathy #bostonuniversity #neurology