Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/WcL5hqXlq-Q   Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic.  They’re worth knowing about now during the 4th week of March, 2022.   The FDA and Pfizer have just issued a flash recall for the blood pressure drug Accuretic, the brand for a quinapril/hydrochlorthazide combo.  The drug contains unacceptable levels of a nitrosamine which may be carcinogenic.  If you take this drug, call your pharmacy to see if your lot is affected and to get a replacement.   https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USFDA/bulletins/31018cd     Hope for an anti-CoVid antibody that capably neutralizes past and future variants and sub-variants is increased by two teams of researchers.  One team in Alabama and Texas, and the other in Switzerland, France, and Belgium.   Both teams identified antibodies from recovered CoVid patients directed against the a part of the coronavirus spike that rarely varies yet is critical for viral replication.  While the usual a