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The Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bulldog, Machir, BBRKINand Awesome are recalling Bulldog Magnum Biometric Pistol Vaults, Magnum Biometric Pistol Vaults with Shelf, Magnum Biometric Top Load Pistol Vaults, Machir Biometric Personal Safes, BBRKIN Biometric Gun Safe model number QCJJ0, and Awesome Biometric Gun Safes due to a biometric lock defect that allows anyone to open these safes leading to injuries and deaths.

About 33,500 Bulldog safes were sold at Bass Pro Shops, Walmart and firearm stores nationwide and online at www.Amazon.com,  About 24,820 Machir safes were sold in the US at Walmart stores and online at walmart.com and machir.com.  About 2200 BBRKIN safes were sold on Amazon.com.   About 60,000 Awesafes were sold at Walmart stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com and Walmart.com.

Stop relying on the biometric feature, disable it on the Machir safes, remove the batteries, and only secure these safes using a key.  Contact Bulldog at 1-888-799-8001 or via email at [email protected] to obtain a repair kit or a free replacement safe.  Contact Machir at 1-888-505-5195 or via email at [email protected] to receive a free replacement safe after you email a photo of the disabled biometric reader.  Contact BBRKIN via email at [email protected] to receive a repair kit or a free replacement safe after you email a photo of the disabled biometric reader.  Contact Awesafe via email at [email protected] to receive instructions on disabling the biometric feature and to receive a free replacement safe after you email a photo of the disabled biometric reader.

(The computer recorded this story as Dr. Smith has laryngitis.)

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Bulldog-Cases-Recalls-Biometric-Gun-Safes-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard-and-Risk-of-Death

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Machir-Recalls-Biometric-Personal-Safes-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard-and-Risk-of-Death

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Biometric-Gun-Safes-Recalled-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard-and-Risk-of-Death-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-by-BBRKIN

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Biometric-Gun-Safes-Recalled-Due-to-Serious-Injury-Hazard-and-Risk-of-Death-Imported-by-Awesafe

#bulldog #machir #BBRKIN #awesafe #gun #personal #safe #biometric #recall

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission, Biloban, and Magik & Kover are recalling Spring Spirit, Biloban, and Magik & Kover Pack and Play Mattresses.  These crib mattresses do not meet federal safety standards for thickness and labeling.  They create suffocation hazards for infants.

About 20,000 of the Spirit and Biloban mattresses were sold in the US and about 1200 of the Magik & Kover were sold on Amazon.com.

Stop allowing your infant to sleep or play on these mattresses and contact Biloban via email at [email protected] or Magik & Kover by email at [email protected] in order to get a free refund or more information.

(The computer recorded this story as Dr. Smith has laryngitis.)

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Spring-Spirit-and-Biloban-Pack-and-Play-Mattresses-Recalled-Due-to-Suffocation-Hazard-to-Infants-Violations-of-the-Federal-Safety-Regulation-for-Crib-Mattresses-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-by-Biloban-Recall-Alert

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Magik-Kover-Pack-and-Play-Mattresses-Recalled-Due-to-Suffocation-Hazard-for-Infants-Violations-of-the-Federal-Safety-Regulation-for-Crib-Mattresses-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-by-Magik-Kover-Recall-Alert

#biloban #springspirit #magikandkover #crib #mattress #thickness #labeling #suffocation #recall

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Best of: Sep 1991

Dr. Smith speaks with Charles Hennekens MD, DrPH, formerly the Chief of Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Professor of Medicine and currently Research Professor of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.  They discuss whether alcohol use is good or bad for your heart and your health.

#heart #alcohol #tobacco #hennekens #alcoholism #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:

 https://www.instagram.com/p/C3qcwFJL88H/

Best of: Oct 1991

Dr. Smith speaks with a caller to WBZ Radio about throat dryness and a “lump in the throat.”

#throat #dryness #globus #humidification #guaifenesin #mucinex #wbznewsradio

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C3qbvzfx5DW/

Best of: March 2019

If a parent constantly corrects an infant, that child’s brain becomes more sensitive to angry vocalizations.  Investigators at Britain’s University of Manchester studied 40 six month old infants and their mothers utilizing the novel neuroimaging technique of Near Infrared Spectroscopy.  This permits the study of a baby’s brain activation by maternal vocalizations without the noise of MRI. Infants as young as 6 months can differentiate happy and unhappy vocal rhythms.  The researchers found that those babies whose mothers repeatedly corrected them developed nerve networks that preferentially respond to angry vocalizations. This study underscores the exquisite sensitivity of infant humans.  Parents need to monitor their own and each other’s interactions with their children and realize how much their behavior imprints their offspring in both negative as well as positive ways.   Good parenting is creating a safe, happy environment for your child by constructing boundaries in a playful and positive manner. 

Chen Zhao, Georgia Chronaki, Ingo Schiessl, Ming Wai Wan, Kathryn M. Abel. Is infant neural sensitivity to vocal emotion associated with mother-infant relational experience? PLOS ONE, 2019; 14 (2): e0212205 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212205

#anger #infant #parentalcorrections #happy #helicopterparenting

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Best of: April 2020

Food families associated with dementia include processed meats, starches, and sugary, fatty snacks.  Epidemiologists at France's University of Bordeaux and Harvard Medical School studied 627 participants analyzing their dietary habits and the incidence of dementia over a 12 year follow up period.   Those developing dementia consumed diets centered around animal-based foods including many nitrite-containing processed meats.  They frequently co-consumed starchy breads, pasta, and rice, snack foods including pastries, and high fat dairy items such as yogurts and cheese.  Those free of dementia consumed diets centered on plant-based products emphasizing healthier fruits and vegetables and a high degree of food variety.   Relatively meat-less moderation is the key.   

https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/early/2020/04/21/WNL.0000000000009399.full.pdf  

#dementia #meat #plants #moderation

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Best of: May 2020

Low vitamin D levels may link to a woman’s inability to conceive.  A recently published Chinese study analyzed 154 women treated at a fertility center looking at vitamin D levels and the presence of toxic immune cells in their uterine linings.   Low vitamin D levels correlated with numbers of killer lymphocytes and scavenging macrophages in the endometrial linings of women unable to become and remain pregnant.  Vitamin D supplementation appears to reduce the populations of these immune cells present.   Women experiencing infertility should have their vitamin D levels checked.  If levels are low, normalization via food supplements or sunlight exposure may well improve the chances of a blessed event.   

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aji.13243?af=R   

#infertility #vitamind #macrophages #killerlymphocytes  

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Best of: Nov 2020

Consistently satisfying sleep may reduce your chances of dying from a worn out heart by 42%.  Epidemiologists at Tulane University followed a huge UK population of 408,802 patients over a 10 year period looking for correlations between sleep patterns and the development of congestive heart failure.   Over those 10 years, 5221 developed heart failure.  This disease incidence was 34% lower in those with no daytime sleepiness, 17% lower in those without insomnia, 12% lower for those sleeping 7 to 8 hours a day, and 8% reduced for early risers.   Congestive heart failure can be deadlier than cancer.  Its only cure is a heart transplant.  Protect your ticker by sleeping soundly and exercising consistently.    

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050792   

#sleep #heartfailure  

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Best of: March 2022

Creativity CAN be taught to children, and professors of English at the Ohio State University now report a better method.  The traditional approach called divergent thinking that focuses on problem-solving and working memory expansion hasn’t cut it.  Instead the OSU profs recommend the narrative method successfully used by novelists.   This narrative method uses 2 techniques.  The first is to encourage children to create new worlds in their minds.  This meshes with their love of other worldly video games.  The other is perspective-shifting that encourages the child to pretend they are someone else and create a story from another’s point of view.   Studies have shown that young children are naturally more creative than adults.  Their creativity appears to be blunted by our formal educational systems that emphasizes rigid logic and rote fact memorization.  We as parents and grandparents must oppose that tendency by playing creativity coaches during the precious early years we have with our children.  Use the narrative techniques to do just that.   

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.14763   

#creativity #divergent #narrative #storytelling  

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Best of: March 2022

Drinking 2 to 3 cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, fewer dangerous heart rhythms, and more healthy years of life.  These conclusions come from a series of studies to be presented at the upcoming American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Sessions.   Two to three cups of coffee a day were the sweet spot of consumption for a 10-15% lower risk of developing coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrthymias, and death.  Coffee drinking even helps those who already have heart disease with a lower risk of dying. Then too, coffee drinkers with atrial fibrillation did not experience coffee-driven exacerbations of that problem with a daily cup of coffee but rather a 20% lower risk of death.  The benefits of coffee were associated with consumption of either brewed or instant coffee.   These studies show that heart benefits have a U-shaped relationship to coffee drinking.  This emphasizes that, as with most interventions, moderation is the best policy.    

https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Articles/2022/03/25/17/36/Coffee-a-Day-May-Benefit-the-Heart-acc-2022  

#coffee #heartdisease #atrialfibrillation #death