Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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The FDA and Lake Champlain Chocolates are recalling a variety of products including: 

Hazelnut, Fruit & Nut, Almond, Granola Five Star Bars

Organic Milk Chocolate Bar with Sea Salt & Almonds

Milk Chocolate Almond Bark

Chocolates of Vermont Green Mountain

Any or all of these products may contain plastic pieces as foreign bodies.  They may trigger a choking hazard.  These items may be found in gift boxes, gift baskets, and gift packages and have been sold nationwide.  If you have these products, do not consume them.  You should contact the company via email.  The address is: [email protected]

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/potential-foreign-object-recall-lake-champlain-chocolates-issues-voluntary-recall-selected-milk

#chocolates #lakechamplain #foreignbodies

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/bdtAN-Daz3Y

The FDA and Lake Champlain Chocolates are recalling a variety of products including: 

Hazelnut, Fruit & Nut, Almond, Granola Five Star Bars

Organic Milk Chocolate Bar with Sea Salt & Almonds

Milk Chocolate Almond Bark

Chocolates of Vermont Green Mountain

Any or all of these products may contain plastic pieces as foreign bodies.  They may trigger a choking hazard.  These items may be found in gift boxes, gift baskets, and gift packages and have been sold nationwide.  If you have these products, do not consume them.  You should contact the company via email.  The address is: [email protected]

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/potential-foreign-object-recall-lake-champlain-chocolates-issues-voluntary-recall-selected-milk

#chocolates #lakechamplain #foreignbodies

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/xS2lRzuIEAU

The CPSC and Scalpa are recalling Scalpa Numb Maximum Strength Topical Anesthetic Cream.  This product contains the pharmaceutical lidocaine, also known as Xylocaine, and this agent must be sold in child-resistant packaging.  Scalpa has not provided that mandated safety measure. This cream has been sold on amazon.com and scalpashop.com.   If you have this product, store it in a safe location out of reach of children.  Contact Scalpa by calling 1-855-424-7828 to obtain a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/scalpa-recalls-scalpa-numb-maximum-strength-topical-anesthetic-cream-due-to-failure-to

#anestheticcream #scalpa #lidocaine #xylocaine

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/xS2lRzuIEAU

The CPSC and Scalpa are recalling Scalpa Numb Maximum Strength Topical Anesthetic Cream.  This product contains the pharmaceutical lidocaine, also known as Xylocaine, and this agent must be sold in child-resistant packaging.  Scalpa has not provided that mandated safety measure. This cream has been sold on amazon.com and scalpashop.com.   If you have this product, store it in a safe location out of reach of children.  Contact Scalpa by calling 1-855-424-7828 to obtain a refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/scalpa-recalls-scalpa-numb-maximum-strength-topical-anesthetic-cream-due-to-failure-to

#anestheticcream #scalpa #lidocaine #xylocaine

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/C2iZvBoeqQs

The CPSC and Rapala USA have recalled  the Rapala Rechargeable Fillet Knives.  The battery may overheat and catch fire if non-Rapala chargers are used to recharge the battery. This product has been sold at Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Fleet Farm, and other sporting goods stores nationwide. If you own one of these knives, stop using it.  Remove the battery.  If your knife’s battery does not have a white ETL label on it, contact Rapala USA at 1-800-878-4451 to receive a free replacement battery and a pre-paid envelope to return the defective battery for safe disposal.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/rapala-usa-recalls-rechargeable-fillet-knives-due-to-fire-hazard

#filletknife #rapala #battery #fire

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/C2iZvBoeqQs

The CPSC and Rapala USA have recalled  the Rapala Rechargeable Fillet Knives.  The battery may overheat and catch fire if non-Rapala chargers are used to recharge the battery. This product has been sold at Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Fleet Farm, and other sporting goods stores nationwide. If you own one of these knives, stop using it.  Remove the battery.  If your knife’s battery does not have a white ETL label on it, contact Rapala USA at 1-800-878-4451 to receive a free replacement battery and a pre-paid envelope to return the defective battery for safe disposal.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/rapala-usa-recalls-rechargeable-fillet-knives-due-to-fire-hazard

#filletknife #rapala #battery #fire

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7vGADu0EgL4

Post-traumatic stress can be a challenge to manage, but repeated IV ketamine infusions appear to be effective.  Psychiatrists at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital and Med School report this finding from their randomized, controlled study of 30 patients with chronic PTSD.

The experimental group received 6 infusions of ketamine at 0.5 mg/kg over 14 days while the controls received midazolam at 0.045 mg/kg.  When the data were tabulated, those that received the ketamine were 3 times more likely to enjoy a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms.  The ketamine responders’s response persisted for nearly one month.

More studies are underway, but this is a hopeful avenue of therapy.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050596

#ptsd #ketamine #psychiatry

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7vGADu0EgL4

Post-traumatic stress can be a challenge to manage, but repeated IV ketamine infusions appear to be effective.  Psychiatrists at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital and Med School report this finding from their randomized, controlled study of 30 patients with chronic PTSD.

The experimental group received 6 infusions of ketamine at 0.5 mg/kg over 14 days while the controls received midazolam at 0.045 mg/kg.  When the data were tabulated, those that received the ketamine were 3 times more likely to enjoy a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms.  The ketamine responders’s response persisted for nearly one month.

More studies are underway, but this is a hopeful avenue of therapy.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050596

#ptsd #ketamine #psychiatry

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rRY3emWBAEo

If you weather Covid-19 infection, there is a 99.3% chance that you will avoid a second infection.  A collaborative study by investigators at Cornell and Qatar Universities reviewed data from 43,044 CoVid patients.

Only 0.7% of this group developed another CoVid-positive PCR test.  Only 41% of that tiny group had convincing clinical evidence of a second infection. And these re-infections were less severe than the initial ones.

Immunologic testing of this group indicated persistent CoVid immunity for at least 7 months.

As more of us attain this immunity from surviving natural infections and, more importantly, via vaccination, there will be fewer new coronavirus infections and less circulating virus in our communities.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249731v1.full.pdf

#covid #reinfection #immunity

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rRY3emWBAEo

If you weather Covid-19 infection, there is a 99.3% chance that you will avoid a second infection.  A collaborative study by investigators at Cornell and Qatar Universities reviewed data from 43,044 CoVid patients.

Only 0.7% of this group developed another CoVid-positive PCR test.  Only 41% of that tiny group had convincing clinical evidence of a second infection. And these re-infections were less severe than the initial ones.

Immunologic testing of this group indicated persistent CoVid immunity for at least 7 months.

As more of us attain this immunity from surviving natural infections and, more importantly, via vaccination, there will be fewer new coronavirus infections and less circulating virus in our communities.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249731v1.full.pdf

#covid #reinfection #immunity