Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/g7GPO0vDlow

The CPSC and Demdaco are recalling Demdaco Microwavable Bowl Holders.  These cotton and linen bowl holders in 27 designs will ignite and burn if left in the microwave for 3 minutes as suggested in the product instructions.  About 56,000 units were sold in the US and 369 were sold in Canada at gift shops, hardware stores, florists, drug stores and pharmacies nationwide and online at Demdaco.com, Target.com, Amazon.com and Zulily.com.  Immediately stop using these bowl holders in the microwave and return the product to the place of purchase for a refund.  You can contact Demdaco at 1-888-336-3226 or via email [email protected] for more information or a prepaid return mailer and the refund.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/DEMDACO-Recalls-Microwavable-Bowl-Holders-Due-to-Fire-Hazard

#demdaco #microwavebowlholder #fire #burns #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/F2ICLSoA8ck

The CPSC and Joey Clothing Inc. are recalling Leveret Children’s Robes.  These garments fail to meet federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear and create risks of burns.  About 15,930 of these robes were sold in the Us and 16 were sold in Canada at amazon.com, leveret.com, nordstromrack.com and zulily.com.  Stop allowing your children to wear these robes.  Cut the robe in half and send a photo of the cut robe and the garment label along with a receipt to [email protected] for a $35 refund.  If you send the photo without the receipt, you’ll only get $30.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Joey-Clothing-Recalls-Childrens-Robes-Due-to-Burn-Hazard

#joey #robe #flammable #burns #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/eb0UsN3I8zU

The CPSC and Asweets are recalling Wonder & Wise Baby Activity Walkers.  The rubber rings on the walker’s rear wheel may detach and create a strangulation hazard for infants and toddlers.  About 13,000 of these walkers were sold at 

Albee Baby, Bloomingdales, Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom, The Tot and children’s boutiques nationwide, and online at crateandbarrel.com, littlewonderandco.com, www.modernnursery.com, nordstrom.com,thetot.com and wonderandwise.com.  Don’t permit your young children to use these walkers until they are repaired.  Contact Asweets by phone at 1-833-422-2028 or via email at [email protected] to receive free replacement rear wheels.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Asweets-Recalls-Wood-Baby-Activity-Push-Walkers-Due-to-Strangulation-Hazard

#wonderandwise #walkers #wheels #strangulation #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/4OijUAAL_BA

The CPSC and Backcountry Access now recall Backcountry Access Tracker4 Avalanche Transceivers.  The toggle switch that permits the unit to search easily separates from the transceiver preventing the unit from locating a skier in an avalanche.  About 9,000 units were sold in the US and about 450 were sold in Canada at 

REI, Evo, Cripple Creek Backcountry and other specialty stores nationwide and online at amazon.com, backcountry.com, snowbigdeal.com, jagaloon.com and specialty websites.  Stop depending on this faulty transceiver and contact Backcountry Access at 1-800-670-8735 or via email at [email protected] to receive a prepaid mailer to return our unit for a free replacement transceiver.

 https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Elevate-Outdoor-Collective-Recalls-Backcountry-Access-Avalanche-Transceivers-Due-to-Risk-of-Loss-of-Emergency-Communications

#backcountry #transceiver #switch #search #recall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/-Yw1UYtJ2E8

Here is some notable healthcare-related business news for this 1st week of June, 2022

The Mayo Clinic has launched its OB Nest Program that moves at least half of a low-risk pregnant woman’s prenatal visits out of the medical offices into her home or “nest.”  Pregnancy is treated as a natural process rather than a disease.  Even so, women and their partners are trained to use provided home monitoring devices like fetal heart rate Dopplers to capture data.  They then communicate with the medical team using secure messaging, phone calls, and video visits.  Expect this care model to spread.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/obstetrics-gynecology/news/ob-nest-a-new-vision-for-prenatal-care/mac-20509442

Braidio, developer of the smartphone app My Health Concierge, has partnered with BlueSemi, maker of the multi sensor EYVA, to create a portable system that will be the heart of a preventive home health monitoring system capable of interfacing with larger telehealth ecosystems.  EYVA’s sensors will measure blood glucose, HbA1c, blood oxygen, heart rate, ECG, blood pressure, and breathing patterns over 60 second and feed the data to the My Health device for processing and uploading.  Brave new world coming.

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ai-and-iot-device-connects-concierge-platform-rpm

The UCLA spinoff SILQ Technologies is marketing a urinary catheter with a unique surface treatment that eliminates bacterial growth by more that 80%.  The anti-microbial properties arise when a thin layer of zwitterionic material is bound to the catheter’s surface with UV light.  The company plans to expand commercial use of this process to reduce biofilm bacterial growth on endoscopy and other diagnostic equipment.  The best news: this surface requires no antibiotics to inhibit bacterial growth.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202200254

There you have the latest healthcare-related business news for this 1st week of June, 2022

#OBnest #Mayo #myhealth #evya #zwitterions #ucla #silq

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/V4K0AKnztjM

Here are the quickie reports about cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries this 1st week of June, 2022.

A new Swiss perfusion technique keeps donor livers alive and well for up to 3 days while they await transplantation into recipients.  In the past, the liver would only tolerate a 12 hour maximum residence outside the human body.  The additional time allows transportation for longer distances as well as the laboratory and tissue testing necessary to assume a good match and long-term function.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01354-7

From NY’s Rockefeller University comes the news that a new synthetic antibiotic called cilagicin capably neutralizes even the nastiest, drug resistant bacteria including MRSA and C. difficile.  The drug is based on a computer prediction regarding the type of molecule a bacterium would create to protect itself from its more aggressive cousins.  Cilagicin works effectively by combining 2 molecules that together irreversibly weaken bacterial cells walls.  Existing antibiotics have only one such molecule.  The drug works in mice and is non-toxic to humans.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn4213

A spoon full of sugar……. You know the rest.  MIT bioengineers and Harvard gastroenterologists have a better way to make the medicines go down for those with difficulties swallowing, say after a stroke, or an aversion to pills and capsules as do most kids.  Their better mousetrap is a gel-based drug delivery platform using gels composed of plant-based oils including sesame oil.  The gels can be produced with different viscosities and flavors.  Clinical studies are slated to begin soon.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm8478

The FDA has announced the first drug approved for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis.  The drug is dupilumab and its better known as Dupixent.  Its now approved for use in adults and teens 12 years and over weighing at least 88 pounds.  Eosinophilic esophagitis is a chronic inflammation that triggers swallowing problems with food trapping on the way down to the stomach.  Dupixent is about 60% effective in reducing the eosinophils populating the esophagus and driving this disorder.  No word yet on insurance coverage.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-treatment-eosinophilic-esophagitis-chronic-immune-disorder

There you have the latest health reveals for the 1st week of June, 2022.  When additional information about these developments becomes available, I’ll pass it on to you.

#liver #transplantation #perfusion #bacteria #antibiotic #drugresistant #ai #swallowing #gels #stroke #plantoil #esophagitis #eosinophil #dupi

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/XVzwyLbLfiQ

Exploding cigars are an old prank, but e-cigarette explosions aren’t funny and can be devastating to an increasing number of teens.  University of Utah surgeons combed the case records for 9 children’s hospitals looking for e-cigarette-related injuries during the years 2016 through 2019.

A total of 15 children 13 to 18 years were injured.  Ten required hospital admission and 3 landed in the ICU.  The catalog of injuries included facial burns, loss of teeth, thigh and groin burns, hand burns, eye injuries, and even a jaw fracture. Forty percent required surgery.

Nationally, FEMA reported 195 e-cigarette fires and explosions between 2009 and 2016, and 29% of the victims suffered severe injuries.

Why do e-cigarettes explode? They often contain often cheap lithium-ion batteries to power their heaters.  When these batteries get banged around, they can explode and the e-cigarette becomes a flaming rocket.

So add this explosion danger to lung damage and cancer generation making 3 good reasons for your teens and for you not to use these e-cigarettes.

https://www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S0022-4804(22)00095-6/fulltext

https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/electronic_cigarettes.pdf

#ecigarette #explosions #batteries #lithiumion #cancer #emphysema

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rzwFSA0Q4D8

Persons who experience a CoVid relapse after taking a 5 day course of the Pfizer protease cocktail Paxlovid all carry high viral loads for 9 to 16 days after beginning the drug.  Researchers at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s and Mass. General Hospitals followed 7 participants who redeveloped CoVid after apparently successful Paxlovid therapy.

All 7 participants experienced symptom improvement and negative home CoVid tests after their 5 days on Paxlovid.  Then, an average of 4 days after stopping the drug regimen, symptoms returned accompanied by a significant viral load that was present for another 5 to 12 days.  The recovered virus was sequenced in 6 of 7 participants and no resistance-associated mutations were detected.

If you develop CoVid and receive Paxlovid, be prepared to continue your home testing for at least 2 to 3 weeks after beginning the drug.   We don’t know as yet for certain but we do suspect that there are symptom-free recurrences during which virus spread is possible and even likely.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.24.22275326v1.full.pdf+html

#CoVid #paxlovid #recurrence #hometesting

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZvRgZ8D8K1c

Women who elect to freeze their eggs in their 20s or early 30s are more than twice as likely to later become pregnant and more than 3.5 times more likely to deliver a baby when compared with women who use IVF techniques.  NYU gynecologists studied 543 patients who froze their eggs and compared their pregnancy success with controls who began using IVF at age 40 or later.

Women who froze eggs under age 38 and thawed 20 or more mature eggs enjoyed the highest live birth rate of 70%.  This rate was lowered to 58% when women who froze eggs as late as 44 were included.  In contrast, IVF for women at age 40 yielded only a 30% pregnancy rate and only a 20% live birth rate.

The bottom line: women who want children a bit later in life should plan ahead and freeze their eggs.

https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(22)00254-0/fulltext

#pregnancy #ivf #eggfreezing

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/HNGIVFcO8-U

Morning exercise is best for women and evening exercise works best for men.  These the conclusions of collaborative studies by exercise physiologists at New York’s Skidmore College, the Arizona State University, and the California State University.

The researchers analyzed 30 women and 20 men in their early to mid-forties over a 12 week period.  The data gathered included body fat, abdominal fat, blood pressure, respiratory exchange, muscle strength, endurance, and exercise time of day.

For women, morning exercise reduced both abdominal fat and blood pressure.  For men, it was the evening exercise that powered desirable fat oxidation and blood pressure reduction.  For those women focused on improving their strength, exercising in the evening proved best.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.893783/full

#gender #exercise #abdominalfat #bloodpressure #strength