Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/AbLb4QMLTdY   Short Shorts are quickie reports about cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries.  They’re worth knowing about this 3rd week of May, 2022.   Inhaled antibiotics may offer at least a partial solution to our current dilemma of ever-increasing antibiotic resistance.  British researchers call for the use of topical antibiotic delivery to the lungs of those with difficult-to-eradicate pneumonias in order to increase the antibiotic dosages without pummeling the rest of the body.  Such resistant bacterial infections are frequently associated with chronic obstructive lung disease and asthma.   https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00172-2/fulltext     The FDA is out with warnings to parents about the real dangers of edibles.  These THC-containing products are often packaged in cuts knockoffs of kid favorites including Capt. Crunch, Starburst Gummies, and Nerds Ropes.  Over the past 15 months, the FDA has received at least 100 reports of ch