. >> rick: dr. david samadi mount sinai hospital here in new york city. important news. >> thank you so much. >> jamie: the medical a-team saves lives every day here. thank you, doc. i'm jamie colby have a wonderful day. >> rick: i'm rick fulbaum, i'll see you six o'clock tonight. the editorial journal report have a great day. >> jamie: doubleheader today? we'll be there, take care. i'd race down that hill without a helmet. i took some steep risks in my teens. i'd never ride without one now. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cholesterol and my risk of heart attack. why kid myself? diet and exercise weren't lowering my cholesterol enough. now i'm eating healthier, exercising more, taking lipitor. numbers don't lie. my cholesterol's stayed down. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. it's backed by over 19 yes of research. [ femalannouncer ] lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems and women wh

samadi and dr. siegel. dr. david samadi, chief of row box at the mt. sinai medical center, i'll do a carol merrill, he's right here. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel at nyu's medical center and, author of "the inner pulse" unlock the secret code of sickness and health" and if you are carol merrill, did it date me with jay? >> jamie: i'm dating myself, strike it from the record and i'm one of those people who needs a cup of coffee in the morning to get going. a new study finds drinking two or more cups a day can lower a woman's risk of developing uterine cancer. doctor, tell us about this. who wouldn't want to try that. >> it covers 67,000 women and is a great follow-up, they have about 26 years follow-up, which is incredible and you think who would fund a study like this and it is nih and we told about the fact, coffee can reduce the risk of cancer and, coffee, how many cups do you need, start counting, 1, 2, 3, 4 cups a day, the magic number in order to get the right amount of caffeine and we understand it is note caffeine that is causing it. antioxidants

david samadi, and, you had emergency surgery yesterday. >> i was covering for someone and the good news, the patient is doing quite well and i'm happy to be here today. >> jamie: glad to hear it. >> eric: doctors, william. let's start this morning, good morning. something you feel sometimes, you feel old, tired, run down. i mean, who doesn't at times? there's a new study that shows that low b-12 can cause symptoms like weakness, depression and memory loss. sometimes gets misdiagnosed, as the ails of age. what about b-12? you hear of shots and all of this. >> this is a very big problem. b-12 is a water soluble vitamin, and we make an enzyme in our stomach that helps us absorb it and we absorb it in our intestines and as we get older we don't do it as well, a study shows 20 to 30% of those over 60 have a b-12 problem and don't know it and, it is very easy to correct. a low toxicity and you cannot take too much of it but i'm not telling you to take it. i'm telling you to make sure your doctor is checking it. i as an internist always check the b-12 levels, when it is low or borderline i use

david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel at nyu's langone medical center and author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." good morning. >> jamie: the dynamic doctor duo. dr. samadi, there is a revolutionary break through in terms of the detection of breast cancer, the british, actually, say it uses special technology. tell us about that. >> a great break through for patients with breast cancer. normally, we use mammogram, right now, to diagnose breast cancer. but, as you know, mammograms are challenging and difficult tests, because, you have to really press the breast tissue and it is painful and, emits radiation and there is some links to cancer as a result of prolonged use of mammograms, and it is also difficult to do this in younger women, because the tissue is very dense, now, there is a new technology, coming in the pipeline, which is going to be called maria, stands for a long term, but is basically based on the technology of anti-land mine explosives, these are nonmetallic

samadi, chief of robotics at mt. sinai medical center, both of whom abided by my admonition to go home early, last night. you look rested and refreshed and ready. happy new year. i'm glad, because we needed good information and a lot of people are going like this... >> eric: great new news, access to a doctor weather a click of a finger? there are medical applications, for your mobile device, becoming more popular and allow dras to answer patient questions faster with an app, and, dr. siegel, they don't have to visit you? >> you still have to visit me but, this is really exploding, 500 million smartphone users by 2015 that will be using these apps, medical apps and i have a plus side and a minus side. the minus side is you cannot fit your doctor inside the phone, in other words, if you have the information at your fingertips, eric and know your heart rate and your blood pressure and know your blood sugar, the key is, is that information being transmitted back to me? now, from my point of view, there is a great advant

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, chief of row box at the mt. sinai medical center. >> and dr. marc siegel at langone medical center and the author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." good morning, docs. >> jamie: and your two chief residents, coming along, i think. we passed over the internships. let's get started... >> surgical training. >> jamie: don't battle over surgery, medicine, dermatology... all of it. okay, new research raising red flags on prostate cancer. i want to get to this. it concerns a lot of men, according to specialists, a specific drug used during the treatment may lead to stroke and heart disease. dr. samadi, what do you want to us know about this? >> when it comes to prostate cancer you can have a very early stage organ... the prostate cancer could be in the organ and the best treatment is to remove it and if the cancer has spread, whether it has gone to the bone or outside the prostate you treat it with radiation an hormones and if it has gone to the bone you give them the hormonal trea

david samadi, he's the chief of the division of robotics at new york's mt. sinai hospital and a member of the fox news medical a-team. thanks for joining us, doc. i want to emphasize protein is important but the source matters? >> true. we thought protein is essential for your body, and muscles mass and for your body workup, but now we're finding out, red meat, which is a source of protein, can increase the risk of stroke in men, 28% and women, 19%, if they take two servings of red meat a day and you have to be cautious. what i found out about the study which is important is different types of proteins, for example, chicken, reduces the risk of stroke by 17%. or fish, also, by 11%. so, the source of protein is as important as what you take. watch out for the amount of red meat you take every day in your diet. >> patti ann: and some people get their protein from powders and shakes. is that a good idea? i know protein increases your athletic performance and the muscle mass and your body mass index and so, for performance, short-term, that will help you but, lo

. >> jamie: and dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> eric: doctors, good to see you. new information for expecting parents, a noninvasive test for down's syndrome. doctors say this screening can be administered like ten weeks into the pregnancy, 99% accurate. doctor, it seems to be a terrific break through? >> this is amazing, eric. i spoke to the doctor who developed the test and, studied it in 4,000 women, and, he said there is a 99 out of 100% chance you will find it but you want to do it in mainly high risk groups, women over 40 and people with a problem, we use ultrasound to see if there is an abnormality in the heart and 50% of downs babies have that and we look at the neck and if it could be a problem it may replace the need for and invasive test, amniocentesis. >> eric: is it available now. >> absolutely. >> it is available and only costs $235, if you have insurance, currently the test we have is something called quad tests and they test the blood level of mom, for things such as proteins, acg and if you

marc siegel and dr. david samadi, we want you to weigh in. people are concerned. once you get diagnosed is there any treatment? >> there are excellent stream but it depends on what stage are diagnosed and one thing we talked about, two weekends ago was the fact that some of the low-dose cat scans can diagnose you early on, without a major risk. and, the key exactly, what you said is really a good screening, and, finding out that you have these lesions or nodules, that are not symptomatic, obviously a case like this is probably with advanced disease found and it was late and a lot of surgical treatment and surgeries, and, followed by chemotherapy and the sooner you get it the result is effective and can be cured. >> eric: what should people do if you are concerned about it. >> stop smoking. >> rule number one, stop smoking and if you are a smoker check with your physician about whether you should have a cat scan. absolutely. >> eric: all right. >> jamie: hearts and prayers. >> eric: more on joe paterno throughout the hour and next hour, also. let's now continue wit

david samadi, vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics and chief at mt. sinai. >> jamie: and you had an emergency, last night and, dr. marc siegel, from the langone medical center and, author of "the inner pulse", unlocking the secrets of health... and that what is we do here. >> eric: and women may not be the only ones who suffer the effects of menopause and doctors noticed male patients report the same symptoms as women. dr. samadi, hot flashes? >> no, it is not the same as women. it is not necessarily hot flashes. it is called male menopause and is different and is a graduate dual pace and not subtle like women and, as we get older the level of testosterone in male hormones, starts to decline and some people actually call it andro-pause, and, typically, men present with being fa teaketigu don't want to do anything, low testosterone is the same as low libido, no interest in sexual activities and become couch potatoes and they are tired and a lot of people... >> jamie: mojo, is that a technical term? >> and some people think it is the typical mid life cr

david samadi, vice chairman of the department of urology, and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> jamie: and dr. marc siegel is here, associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone medical. >> and author of "the inner pulse" the secret code of sickness and health. welcome, doctors, thanks for being here and we start on a serious note. we have lost one young, 48 years old, and i wanted to ask you, let me start with you, dr. siegel, about... we're not going to speculate or say that any part of her lifestyle contributed. until we get the answers. first of all, how long do you think it will take to really know what caused his death. >> because it is a celebrity case it slows down the process an gums up the works. if he thirst questifirst questie autopsy will show and it will rule out natural causes, there wasn't a blow to the head, a bleed to the head and wasn't a heart attack and something didn't cause her to stop breathing and look at the lungs and gross organs and liver and i'm most interested in that issue. did they find a heart attack or a bleed and i

david samadi the vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of row box at the mt. sinai medical center. >> and dr. marc siegel from the langone medical center and, author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> jamie: easy to be healthy when you are not right by or side. we'll get back on track. >> eric: the first topic has to do with your teeth an oral health and it is important for your teeth and doctors claim getting your teeth cleaned regularly could have an effect on your overall health. specifically, getting a heart attack or stroke, getting your teeth cleaned more often can protect your heart? >> a fascinating topic. we thought of teeth as more prosthesis, for the look of it, but, now more and more we are learning from cardiologists, especially from american heart association, that keeping your teeth healthy, is actually healthy for your heart and another study came out from taiwan and, said like visiting your dentist once every two years can reduce the risk of heart disease, 24% and the risk of stroke 13%. how does it work

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> jamie: you know who is here, too. dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at the langone medical center and author of "unner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health" and we made a move this sunday but you found your way to make your house call. we love it. >> here we are. serving great to see you, let's begin with -- a shocking report. i don't know if you take sleeping pills but they can lead to a higher risk of death, of course, it comes as more and more americans try to rely on sleep aids for a good night's sleep. dr. samadi it is shocking. you hear they can have such an effect. >> it was big news that came out this week, about, 10% of americans are actually taking sleeping pills. what they looked at, this was a study that was published in "the british medical journal" and look at about 10,000 people who took the medication, and, 20,000 didn't and they followed them for 2-and-a-half years and they found that if you take as little as

. >> eric: and dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center here in new york. good morning. >> jamie: you guys are used to no sleep diet. >> we followed dr. samadi's advice and changed our watches early. >> jamie: that was smart and we'll talk later about what impact not having the extra hour's sleep can have on you today. we begin with an eye-opening report which suggests america may be an overmedicated nation. now, it may not be a surprise to you, because a lot of people have taken a lot of pills, $300 billion, spent on prescription drugs last year alone, are we growing too dependent on prescription medications, maybe there are natural alternatives, out there. dr. siegel, you have top alternatives and, i think folks will be interested. >> we prescribed $47 billion pills and half the adults in the u.s. are on prescription drugs, a shocking a and i look at three top topics, one is painkillers and we have said before, there's 131 prescription s power pain killers, maybe you need therapy, exercise, acupuncture works and high

. >> eric: and dr. david samadi, chief of robotic at the mt. sinai medical center here in new york. good morning. >> jamie: good morning, to both of you, an important story we all talk about, via e-mail, the former vice president, dick cheney who had a heart transplant, he had been waiting 20 months on a trans plant list and had a left ventricular assist device for the treatment of end stage heart failure already and after being on the list, he gets the call and goes to the hospital and, he has this transplant. what is involved in that surgery? >> well, let me wish him a fast recovery, i'm happy he was able to tolerate the surgery well and it speaks about the wonders of medicine and surgery and the fact that he has been struckling with the heart disease for the last two decades, five heart attacks and, he had the ventricular device in 2010, a battery powered pump you can go on many years before going on the transplant and the pump, it takes the blood away from the real heart and sends the blood to the circulation and the battery you can wear and it is a bridge for many things, a bri

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel of langone medical center and the author of "the inner pulse" unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." good morning. >> jamie: good morning to you, great to see you. >> nice to see you. >> jamie: great topics. we'll begin with a potential medical break through, an experimental surgery for type two diabetes and it is making its way to the u.s., this is great news, some doctors overseas saying it offers a 50% chance of a cure. dr. samadi, that is beyond statistically significant. you never hear 50%. >> well, i'm glad actually, surgery gets one good score today. good for the surgeons out there. but, look, it got a lot of publicity and is a study from cleveland clinic, published in "new england journal of medicine" and one of the first studies that talks about surgery, as a cure for diabetes and we hear about surgery and, weight loss but not directly, all the way to diabetes and we'll try to figure it out. they look at 150 patie

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center and if getting healthier means to peeps and no chocolates, today, i'm out. say it ain't so. >> it is a holiday. >> a free pass today. >> happy easter and passover... serving let's start with the first topic, go to the doctor and he tells you to get tests and you feel as a patient you want them and there is a debate among doctors who say, the testing is unnecessary and a panel of medical came out with a list of routine practices and they say they are wasteful and profit-driven including x-rays and ekgs an antibiotics, and as a patient, you want the stuff, but are you guys prescribing too much? >> first of all, yes. we have 30% more tests than we need to be ordering in treatment and this is called choosing wisely and comes from the american board of internal medicine, my board and actually "consumer reports" and putting together analysts in all specialties to decide whether the tests are overdone. on the surface it is a great idea and the problem comes in in actuall

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david samadi is chief of division here in new york city and medical a-time and shares insight on the new study, conducted with the new england journal of medicine about coffee and its many benefits. >> yeah, kelly. this is actually a big study that just recently will i came out. and they're looking at huge number of participants, over 320,000 men and also, 170,000 women. they followed them for about 15 years, so, even though it's not a cause and effect. and its observation studies, one of the better ones we have and i've always been a big advocate of coffee on the program and talked about it many times and finally put the topic to rest and say that coffee is actually healthy and beneficial, and good for you. what they saw is, among the coffee drinkers, the number of death has been reduced 10% in men, 50% in women and whether it's the antioxidants that clear the free radicals or polyphenyls and things that reduce the heart disease, it's great news for people who love coffee and now, the big question, how many cups. >> kelly: i was going to ask you that, how many cups a day? >> they've

. ♪ >> eric: time for "sunday house call," dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai center in new york. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel of langone medical center and author of "the anyoinner pulse" unlocking the secrets of sickness and health. good to see both of you. >> jamie: we'll unlock the secret, i'm excited about this one, of sugar, because a lot of us like sugar but it could make you sick and makes you fat and according to a recent study, it could make you, it says dumb, but not as smart as you might be. the big question is can a lot of sugar also cause diabetes or is that genetic? dr. samadi, make sure we get to the dumb one. >> the big question over here is if you are taking too much sugar, can you get diabetes and the answer is, absolutely not. when you take sugar your pancreas will secrete insulin and if you have a problem with getting it into your system that is called type one diabetes, where the kids, juvenile diabetes. if you make the insulin but other receptors don't work and as a result of belly fat or obesity we have spoken about, insulin is not

dr. david samady here in new york city and a member of the fox news medical a-team. first of all, doc, what is sleep apnea. >> it is basically interruption of sleep. these are the patients that they stop breathing while they are sleeping. they go to sleep and they wake up so they never really get the continuous sleep and they are always fatigued and always tire. in the past we knew it was always linked to car accidents because they fall asleep behind the wheel but also a lot of strong links to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, all of that. this is the first time that we see a link between sleep apnea and cancer. and this is really a very important news that is coming out of spain. what they looked at 5200 participants followed them for 7 years and found that if you have severe sleep apnea you have 68% increased chance of getting any kind of cancer. and this is the first time -- >> why is that? >> there are some theories behind it. because of sleep apnea you are not getting enough oxygen and the body compensates by growing blood vessels and they can actual

david samadi, vice chairman of the department of urology, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center with awesome topics this morning. great to have you here. first, there is new hope for millions of patients because federal regulators are speeding up the approval of new experimental cancer drugs. including some for breast cancer. dr. siegel, let's let you comment on this first. >> i'm very excited about this, usually it takes 12 to 15 years and i mean years for a new drug to be approved, a billion dollars and by the time it is out, it may be obsolete. but what is actually happening now is we are entering a brave new world of cancer treatment because in the past we tried to poison the cancer and as we were poisoning the cancer we poisoned our own rapidly growing cells and now we are doing something called targeted therapy and we noticed a genetic difference and devise a drug for the genetic difference for the abnormal protein and tarring it. or, we bolster our own immune system to attack the cancer, this is such exciting lines of treatment we have to get it out t

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. great to see you. let's get healthy. the first topic is important for so many folks. a startling reality affecting 1 in 8 american couples. and it is infertility and health experts now raise red flags about the diagnosis, specifically for women believe it or not in their 20s, doctor, tell us, why women in their 20s. >> actually when people are at the age of 40, 67% of them can still have children which is amazing and 45, goes town to 15%, and we are tending to overlook young women as you said, jamie and it turns out that 11% of women under the age of 30, can't conceive. they tried for a year, that is the definition, if you try for a year and are not able to have a baby then it is designated as infertility and here's the good news. for young women there is usually a reason and we can find out the reason an older women it may be the eggs are aging and they don't work as well and for young women it is often hormonal or your tubes are blocked or you have a problem wi

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, chief of robotics at the mount sinai. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel, author of "the infer pulner pul unlocking the secrets of health... >> jamie: i want to unlock some secrets. >> eric: researchers are developing the first of its kind injection they say could save the lives of people who cannot breathe. an injection, that delivers oxygen directly into the bloodstream. dr. samadi, what is it about. >> it is very very, handy. we have a lot of patients out there with airway obstructions and may have asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia or like, in the field of trauma, you may have a real obstruction and what is the first rule of medicine, eric, get access to airways and what we do is intubate the patient and the ventilation machine is going to breathe for the patient. now, what this technology is, which is really, really smart, what they've done is they've created the oxygen bubbles and, you can actually inject it into the blood, directly and, what it does, it introduces options for the patient and it will buy up some time to get the

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, and chief of robotic at the mount si my medical center. >> and associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone's medical center and, is author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. dr. marc siegel. doctors, good morning. >> jamie: great to see you. >> eric: our thoughts and prayers are with all of those in aurora, colorado with the residents and victims' families and i'm sure i speak for everyone across the country and the doctors are weighing in on the aftermath of the horrible shootings. as medical teams cared for the dozens of victims at hospitals across the denver area. how do hospitals and medical centers react to these type of emergency situations? and what kind of treatment they're victims now receiving? dr. samadi, it must be a h

sinai medical center, good morning, dr. david samadi. the first topic, fallout over guidelines urging pediatricians to test all children for their cholesterol, regardless of weight or family history and medical experts are raising questions about that. should you test your child or not? dr. siegel? >> well, let me wade into it this way, 10% of kids hoof high cholesterol and 1/3 are overweight or obese and studies over the past few years have shown they are building up fatty streaks in their arteries, feeding the heart beginning at very, very young ages and there was another study that showed that overweight kids with high cholesterol build up plaque in their carotid arteries and this is a huge problem and i think knowledge is power but, you know, guidelines make me nervous. the war back and forth about when it should be done and to whom is really the question. i think any overweight child, any child with a family history of high cholesterol, any child that we think could have a risk factor for high cholesterol, should be checked at a ver

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center, doctors, thanks for joining us and we begin with a startling new statistic, dramatic, stating american adults are living with two or more chronic conditions. and, research actually shows people 45 and older are especially at risk. doct dr. samadi, what is going on with this. >> this study came out of cdc this week, and looked at 9 chronic illnesses, heart disease, stroke, cancer and the list is long and they noticed now in america, the population over 45, they have at least two of those chronic illnesses and the numbers have gone from 16%, in the last decade, now to 21%. and, what is more important is the -- over the age of 65, the number has gone from 37% to now 45% and what it really means is, is that half of the population over 65, they have two chronic diseases or more and that is not really good news for us and the answer is, why exactly does it happen? and some of it has to do with the wear and tear of the fact that people are living longer. and modern medi

david samadi vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. both doctors are here. >> jamie: let's get rolling, we were concerned when we heard west nile virus was back, a deadly disease, it is carried by mosquitoes and the centers for disease control say it is spreading faster than in any other year. doesn't the states already affected including texas, have declared a state of emergency, nearly 400 cases reported there. more than two dozen people have died from it. dr. siegel how concerned should the rest of us be? i have written about this in my book "false alarm" and i think it is a health scare, we have close to a thousand cases this year and remember, how many cases of flu do we have, a half a million, 30,000 people dying in the united states and people will worry about west vile and you know what happens? west nile virus, by the way is spread by the culex mosquito, the southern house mosquito and less than 1% of those mosquitoes in areas where west nile are actually have this west nile and if you get bit by west nil

david samadi, vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> jamie: wait, you get a second opinion, dr. marc siegel of the nyu langone medical center and author of "the inner pulse, unlocking the secrets of sickness and health." >> eric: good morning, doctors, have you heard the study about lung cancer and finds cases of lung cancer are on the rise and are increasing mostly among people

dr. david samadi, vice president of urology at mounted sinai medical center. ready to go. >> there was a break. a major one in the fight against breast cancer this week. scientists found four major classes of the disease and hope l it will lead to more effective treatment. how promising is this? >> this is appraisal a breakthrough. we are talking about the cancer genome network. we are looking at cancer differently. it's all about genetics. we are looking at dna, which is programming to tell cells how to behave. they public about the nature what is going wrong with the genetic programming. they discovered with breast cancer and tomorrow prostate cancer awareness month and move on to breast cancer awareness. >> jamie: i mean women and men should be more aware. >> what this those there are four different types of breast cancer. we know one is

dr. david samadi is here, vice chairman of urology, from the mount sinai medical center. good morning. so good to see you today. hope you had a good holiday. let's get healthy. okay. >> welcome back. >> jamie: thank you. first we want to talk about the health concerns for former president george h.w. bush. he was hospitalized this week. he is 88 years old. they say it's from complications of bronchitis. she in stable condition at a houston hospital. getting great, great care. but a lot of people, not just the older americans suffered from respiratory illest in. what do we -- illness. what do we need to know? >> common disease but bronchitis is in two forms. acute form, storm-term after the flu and may take two or three weeks. a lot of times it's viral. we make a mistake as physicians to write the prescriptions. that is only good for bacterial, which is only 10% of the time. most of the time that will resolve on its own. if it goes on for longer than three months to two years that is a chronic bronchitis. that is really formation of the tubing in the lungs, bronchial. you

fox news medical a team dr. david samadi joins us this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> we are hearing from his older brother that he suffered from some sort of personality disorder. others are saying he was reclusive. he was quiet. what does that tell you about him. >> more and more information is coming about the shooter. there is a discussion that perhaps he had some sort of as berger's or even was diagnosed with autism. now, it's very important to -- i just want to get this out, we are not saying that autism causes this kind of behavior. the fact that he was a loaner, he was not involved in any social interaction. can't keep a real conversation. when they talk to a lot of his friends they found out he was always by heimself. he wasn't engaging in any games. so the behavior was not really normal. >> not that of a typical 20-year-old? >> exactly right. now we are seeing more and more of these people coming to movie theaters and coming to schools and go on rampage and start killing people there is a developmental problem with their brai

. >> and dr. david samadi. >> good morning,. >> great to see you. >> welcome to sunday. an amazing topic this m rning. a look at one of the most remarkable medical breaks through of this past year. we'll begin with a smart pill. this thing is science fiction. a sand-grain, penny microchip like you pop in your mouth as a pill and it records the times the drugs you take, when you take them. doctor siegel it sounds like star trek. a tiny pill that tracks what you do? >> the size of a grain of sand. i think it's a game-changer. the way it works is -- it's fda approved. basically it goes into your stomachs in a pill. and we'll be able to add to almost all medication. it's activated by storm system system -- stomach acid and a receiver will tell you did you take the medication, where in your body is the medication you took? what's your heart rate? what's your respiratory rate? is it interacting with other medications? it allows me to see if a patient took the medication. people think i'm being punitive. i said i took it but i didn't. people that lie about it, i'm more concerne

. >> and dr. david samadi. mount sinai medical center in new york city. >> good morning. >> a major warning as this year's flu season is already off to an early and very deadly start. thousands of people and more than half of the country have been infected just in the first few weeks of this winter season. what's going on? >> i want to tell people what flu is. a package, a tiny package of genetic material covered with an envelope. the envelope has proteins. h protein helps the virus get into your cell. the n protein helps the virus get into another cell. h3n2 is the version we're dealing with and it's bad. in 2003 it led to the deaths of over 40,000 people, a similar variety. we also know and the cdc said it tends to give you an early flu season, which we're seeing. it could take time at the end of this month or early part of next month -- we haven't seen the peak. we saw over 2,000 hospitalizations last week. we talked about this yesterday on the air. we've seen 15,000 recorded cases but probably more than 50,

dr. david samadi is here to help us. what foods help us feel less frazzled? the more stressed you are, the more of a certain kind of hormone goes into your system. that is not a good thing. >> we don't know about stress; right? of course for men this is a big thing because we don't take care of ourselves. women are much better. so this is a great formula. starting with breakfast, lunch and then we have some -- for breakfast -- >>steve: oatmeal. >> oatmeal is the best thing. a lot of vitamin b, magnesium. it is calming for your nerves. you're going to get fiber also. >>brian: what about this? >> chia seeds on salmon. it has a lot of fiber. magnesium and vitamin b is great for nerves. with salmon you get omega 3 fatty acids, great for your heart. at least three times a week is perfect for you. >>brian: what about almonds? >> i've talked about coffee. almond have a lot of antiokay -- antioxidants. >>brian: almond butter would be good? >> i don't have time for the butter. we've talked about strawberries and berries, you can't have enough of them. it has a lot of

joining me now is dr. david samadi. complicated issue. this invention would actually send you as the physician some sort of alert on your phone if one of your patients is not taking their medication? >> yes. gretchen this was approved actually last year in july by f.d.a. it's called a smart pill. basically it has a sensor, a pill that the patient takes, it has a sensor. there is a patch on the patient. actually what it does, it gets activated as you take your medications with saliva and takes all that information and sends it to either my smart phone or anywhere we want to program it. it's important because one of the biggest issues we have in medicine is the compliance. is the patient taking their medications? when itdoms diabetes, high blood pressure, which this pill can do and give us that information which is really effective, but when it comes to psychiatric patients, they could be harm to themselves, to the society and to others. so that makes it even more important using this kind of technology. i like the technology. it's not 100%

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of the neurology and the chief of robotics at mount sigh near. >> eric: and dr. marc siegel who is the author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. doctors, good morning. >> good morning. >> as always. >> eric: we'll first start with a brand new warning for men. listen up. a new study says that those who have a high intake of calcium supplements could have a greater risk of cardiovascular death. dr. samadi, what does that mean if you take calcium. it affects your heart? >> yes. this is actually a study that came out of jam ma thia this we. they looked at over 300,000 participants and patients over 12 years. they're finding out th finding t calcium increases the risk of cardiovascular death and disease in men. now, it could be very confusing for a lot of people that are watching because for years, we said take your calcium, it's good for prevention of osteoporosis, great for bone health. it's even great for diabetes or high blood pressure, and now we're saying wait a second, don't take too much. > >> eric

david samadi of the medical a team. if you feel any of these, get help starting with severe head pain, the worst headache of your life. >> this is very serious. a lot of people may have a migraine headache and it goes away. but if you have a throbbing headache like a belt around your head, you've got to see somebody. we were talking about a case where someone in my family ended up getting an m.r.i. and they found a tumor in the head. there is no room in the brain. it could be an aneurysm or a mass. don't dismiss that. severe headache that doesn't go away, go to the emergency room and make sure they investigate it. >>gretchen: what about a throbbing tooth? people say it is a little uncomfortable, i'll let it go for awhile. >> see your doctor. everything starts with the teeth being very sensitive when you drink something hot or cold. that's probably a crack in the enamel. then bacteria can get in and you can form an abscess. that is a big deal. by seeing a doctor early on you can save your tooth. and make sure you go in a

. >> jamie: andled is david samadi. chief of robots at mount sinai malmedical center. great to have you here. er where i go people talk about this segment. there is new hope for those that are visually impaired. the fda approved a brand-new item? >> right now we are use foorg a condition called retinitis pigmentosa where the lighted cells in their eyes in the retina are not working. it's congenital. you get it when you are born. sites have been -- scientists have been trying to figure a way around it but they are icing camera technology. they are using the camera. department of energy has been involved in this since 2002. it's called argus. they have gone through three prototypes and argus one, two and three and they put a video camera on a pair of glasses. video camera sends impulses to a computer chip that sends these impulses on to the eye where electrodes are implanted on the retina. this is the hard part. the electrodes converted into signals that the brain understands. that has required all the research. how does the eye do that. how does the eye converts them. t

joining us, dr. david samadi, department of urology. >> and dr. marc siegel, nyu lang the medical center and author of the inner pulse, unlock the secret code of sickness and healthy. good morning. >> good morning. >> that's what we do here, unlock it. get you going for the week. >> we start with a incredible study this week. when you go to the doctor, you want to have all sorts of tests and bring it on, whatever they have. but this study says the common tests and treatments we get may not be necessary. this surprising. >> it is and it's not. it's a continuation of what we talked about a year ago. under the auspices of internal medicine foundation, they decided is 135 tests and procedures may not be necessary. the list is long, no antibiotic for sinusitis. no c-section before 39 weeks. it goes on. no body scan because of radiation. we don't need to get into the tests. of course what we're learning is the whole concept of choose wisely is more is not better. i know marc will talk about how the healthcare system in this country, we're spending more,

. >> jamie: also with us, dr. david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of neurology. doctors, good morning to boast you. great to see you. >> jamie: i will point out we're all wearing blue because march is colon cancer awareness month. we were all thinking about it this morning. it's the third leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women in the u.s. in fact, it's estimated that in 2013 about 51,000 people will die from colon cancer, so dr. siegel, we know a bit about it. we he know we should get checked. what else do we need to know? >> let's start with the fact that we should get checked. that's one cancer we can really check and know what we're finding. we have over 100,000 cases of colon cancer per year and 40,000 erectile cancer. over 80% of this can be prevented if you screen with a simple colonoscopy over the age of 50 routinely. earlier if you have a family history or certain risk factors. why do i want to screen your colon? it's not for colon cancer. it's to look for polyps. they're prett cursor for colon cancer and they're found in 30 to 50% of ame

joining us this morning is dr. david samadi. >> and dark mar dr. marc siegele author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. >> eric: good morning, docs. >> good to see you. >> jamie: everyboderic scared e. >> eric: here's what we know about the new super bug. 42 states are reporting that they have at least one patient who surface from the super bug. it's most common in the northeast. they say it's increased from 1 to 4% over the last ten years and kills up to half the patients who get it in their blood stream. so dr. samadi, what is the super bug, how many are there, and what do we do to protect ourselves from becoming a victim? >> the last segment, sentence that you mentioned, the hal fact that people die from it and we have zero antibiotic treatment to treat this, that's what the cdc calls it a super bug or nightmare bug. what it really is, they call it a cre, and the name of it is car carbopeneum. just so you know, compared to the rest of the antibiotics, is a martin luther king lar bomb. it's a -- it's a nuclear b

here with details is fox news medical a team doctor, dr. david spwad did i. good morning. -- spwad samadi. it's called v i ritrol. they are figuring out how it helps us. >> got a lot of media publicity. it was one of the biggest antioxidants. so many doctors jumped on the band wagon saying how it's great from you. obviously it comes from red wine and it is the skin of grape. it was thought this antioxidant can help with you diabetes, heart disease, et cetera. the news today is coming out of harvard medical school, tells us it is not a great antioxidant and now they are finding out the real mechanism. there is something called the longevity gene. this gene is the secret. it activates an enzyme called sirt-1. now we know the gene and we know the enzyme, companies like glaxo smith are jumping on this trying to come up with a concentrated extract medication. it can help with d.n.a. repair so when you go to sleep, seven hours of sleep, that's when all the d.n.a. repair happens. all the diseases we have from diabetes to heart disease have to do with inflammation. t

let's bring in dr. david samadi, chief of the division of robotics at the mt. sinai center. i bet robotics is on the cutting edge of operating on ovarian cancer. why isn't women getting what they need? >> these are scary statistics. there was a meeting in los angeles and a doctor from ucla presented this data. they positive followed about 13,000 patients 1999 through 2006. they are finding out 80% of the women of ovarian cancer are not getting appropriate treatment. a lot of it is because most surgeons and doctors are not seeing a lot of these patients. we know that the ovarian cancer, first treatment is the best treatment. we'll get a little more in to it but what they are saying in the hands of experienced surgeons, there are survival benefits. if you are diagnosed and you go to your gynecologist you are going to hurt yourself by being in the hands of the wrong doctor. >> jamie: so you want to go to oncologist a cancer special-i. many women don't know what to look for and that is why they call it one of silent killers. how do women know it's not a back ache or something el

dr. david samadi is here, the advicvicechairman of the departf urology at cedars mount sinai. shall we begin? we have been talking about the serious new warning about a popular antibiotic. we probably all have it in our medicine cabinet. the fda is saying zithromax can call potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm in some patients. if you have a sore throat, that's not what you're looking for. what should we do? >> i'm not ready to leave the antibiotic yet. i want to explain first the use of the antibiotic. a lot of people will be motivated by fear now and run away from it. we actually have a lot of great medical uses for it because it stays in the system for a while. the trick about zithromax is when you give it, it stays around for a few days. if you could take it for five days and get ten days worth of bang for your buck out of it. that's really valuable, and it's useful for sinus infections, bronchitis, not so much for ear infections. for gonorrhea its useful. the problem is it's so popular because you only have to take it for five days that people are overusing it. we've

here to tell us about them is medical a team dr. david samadi. there are certain things you should have. >> top of the list is the blood pressure. a lot of people don't know the definition of blood pressure. if you go to your doctor's office and they check your blood pressure and it's high, you don't have high blood pressure. 140 over 90 three times, that's the real definition of high blood pressure. you want to make sure you maintain your blood pressure below that number. somewhere in the range of 120, 130 to over 70 or 80 would be that's very important for prevention of stroke. >>steve: let's see my numbers. and the winner is? my blood pressure right now is, doctor? >> 120 over 70. i just checked your blood pressure and it was fantastic. this is ideal number a lot of people want to shoot for. >>steve: for people who are at the drug store, can they sit down in that chair and put their arm in that, does that thing work? >> they're fairly accurate. you want to know about it. if the first number is wrong, repeat it on another occasion. if you're ex

dr. david samadi is here next with that. >> then, a lesson on how not to rob a store. what this guy is up to, coming up. ♪ an arrest has been made in connection with with the killing of a colorado prison chief. this woman allegedly bought the weapon that was used to kill tom clements. she is charged with giving the man accused of the murder evan eeble. he was killed in a gun fight days after the murder. what's in a name. car battery company that got millions from taxpayers making some changes. a 123 systems changing its name to b 456 systems. a 123 awarded 249-million-dollar grant from the obama administration in 2009 and already received 133 of it when it filed for bankruptcy. it was later bought by a chinese firm. and he is being hailed a bridge builder for the nypd. chief philip banks the iii just named the chief of the department. that's the agency's top breaking uniform position. chief banks is previously the head of community affairs. speaker for the hailed apprentice program. congratulations. pattie ann? >> ainsley some new developments in the fight against ca

david samadi, vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics at mount sinai medical center. >> good morning. >> jamie: and dr. marc siegel is here as well. from nyu medical center and author of "inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." we are starting with an important topic. autism. it affects so many kids. one in 88. that is an amazing statistic, compared to a new years ago. people now have a much better understanding of it. the centers for disease control estimate a staggering the number i gave you one in 88 have it so including one in 54 boys. apparently boys more at risk. so dr. samadi, what have we learned in the last couple of years? >> we have come a long way. we are doing this topic because april is autumn awareness month. we are starting to think that this autism is

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let's ask dr. david samadi. is it right to say ptsd after one incident? >> absolutely. we have to be very careful. as we come out of this and the recovery starts, that's when you're going to see a lot of people being affected by this. the key word was emotional, psychological and there are a lot of behavioral symptoms that will come. ptsd is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. a lot of times people associate it to war. but you may have sandy storm, a hurricane. >>brian: you talk about the phases we should look for. >> the first phase is that they remember, they recall. there are flashbacks, the sight of the blood, kids bleeding, et cetera. the second one is making sure they become isolated. they don't want to deal with anybody. they don't want to interact with anybody. the last phase is the arousal, anger, frustrations. all of a sudden they are burst into like anger. they can't interact with anybody. the sooner you interfere with this, the sooner you get help and interact with other families and recognize that you have a problem, the better we can take care of this.