Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Howard G. Smith, M.D. is a former radio medical editor and talk show host in the Boston Metro area. His "Medical Minute" of health and wellness news and commentary was a regular weekday feature on WBZ-AM, WRKO-AM, and WMRE-AM. His popular two-way talk show, Dr. Howard Smith OnCall, was regularly heard Sunday morning and middays on WBZ.

Dr. Smith has adopted audio and video podcasting as conduits for HEALTH NEWS YOU SHOULD USE. Based on the latest medical, health, and wellness literature these reports provide practical information you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy. Many reports have video versions, and Dr. Smith’s YouTube Channel may be found at: http://bit.ly/2rNw6XQ

Trained at Harvard Medical School and a long-time faculty member at Boston Children’s Hospital, he practiced Pediatric Otolaryngology for 40 years in Boston, Southern California, and in central Connecticut. He is now based in New York City.

If you have questions or suggestions about this content, please email the doctor at drhowardsmith.reports@gmail.com or leave him a message at 516-778-8864. His website is: www.drhowardsmith.com.

Please note that the news, views, commentary, and opinions that Dr. Smith provides are for informational purposes only. Any changes that you or members of your family contemplate making to lifestyle, diet, medications, or medical therapy should always be discussed beforehand with personal physicians who have been supervising your care.

Predicting Immunity Against CoVid

Oct 2, 2022

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/R86eH8jRlqQ

MIT bioengineers and oncologists have developed a rapid card-based test to assess a person’s levels of neutralizing antibodies that can fend off a CoVid infection. The system employs the typical lateral flow card used in current CoVid home antigen test kits.

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Pfizer To Purchase ResApp

Oct 2, 2022

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

The Australian digital health startup ResApp will become part of the Pfizer family after $116 millionUS changes hands. The ResApp mobile app analyses cough and other respirator sounds to help diagnose asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, croups, and COPD. The app might help with...

GlucoCheck Will Offer Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring

Oct 2, 2022

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/x__bMilMWNY

Inventive bioengineers at Georgia’s Kennesaw State College of Computing and Software Engineering are developing a finger probe to measure blood glucose levels without a blood draw, fingerstick, or even a microneedle in the subcutaneous tissue. Named GlucoCheck, the...

Robotic Clothing Will Help Children With Cerebral Palsy

Oct 2, 2022

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/AkpQ47lvXPg

Clothing with AI-controlled and air-driven actuators will help kids coping with cerebral palsy fine-tune their arm and leg motions. Bioengineers at UC-Riverside working with clinicians at California’s Children’s Hospital of Orange County, better known at CHOC, are...

Liquid Biopsies For Brain Cancer Surveillance

Oct 2, 2022

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/zoUGgY0ZH44

Canadian bioengineers have developed the technology for diagnosing and analyzing cancers in the brain using a 3D printed ultrasensitive nanosensor capable of detecting tumor-specific proteins in at little as 5 ul of blood using surface-enhanced Raman scattering methodology.