. >> 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 figur

. >> 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.

as always, joining us this morning is dr. david samadi. he's vice chairman of the department of urology and chief of robotics here at migh mount h knee. >> dr. marc siegel is here with us as well. author of the inner pulse. unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. good to have you both. if only we could unlock why somebody does this. what a week. even though you've seen trauma and a lot of patients suffering, i'm sure you were affected as well. dr. samadi, you start. how do people cope with especially with social media and television being able to see this and you feel like you're a participate at-bat? >> jamie, let me just say it was a very difficult week for america, and my heart and all of our prayers are with the family who went through this. we had fairly good news towards the end of the week and hopefully that will help everyone to cope, but we're talking about ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder. this is a real anxiety disorder that can affect a lot of us, some that were in the middle of the field and some that were just w

let's ask dr. david samadi who worked with da vinci quite often. are you concerned? >> i think this is actually not necessarily bad news. i'm glad the f.d.a. is looking into this because a lot of surgeons don't have enough experience or training and they get behind this robot and start doing a case that should only be an hour or hour and a half, they turn into a very long case. that's when they have these kind of complications. recently also a lot of gynecologists started to use robotic surgery and they are superb lap row -- laproscopic surgeons. >>brian: i'm under the impression figure to the hospital and the surgeon chooses to use a robot, he or she has had experience. what is the criteria to make sure the person knows how to use a robot? >> you may be doing five cases and you will be the sixth case or you may have done 30 cases. the truth is a lot of published data says if you have not done 300 to 500 of these cases, you are not eligible to do this. today i'm going to post a lot of information on our own facebook, david samadi, ten questions you should be asking.

. >> and dr. david samadi chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. good to see you. dr. siegle you were up in boston. we were reporting there together this week. of course, you had that tremendous sense that those bombs that exploded on boylston street and tore at our security in this nation, many remain at the hospital. you visited some of those people and they have incredible stories. >> some of focus is shifting away from the terrorists to the survivors which is

. >> and dr. david samadi chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. good to see you. dr. siegle you were up in boston. we were reporting there together this week. of course, you had that tremendous sense that those bombs that exploded on boylston street and tore at our security in this nation, many remain at the hospital. you visited some of those people and they have incredible stories. >> some of focus is shifting away from the terrorists to the survivors which is what we talk about. some of them showed great courage. some of them are worried about going into crowds. some have ringing in their ears and some are dealing with amputations. at the finish line, 25-year-old kaitlin was standing with her friend leo when is the first bomb hit. bomb blen her into the air and her right leg became severely damaged. leo took his shirt and stopped the bleeding and carried her several blocks to his car where he went down wrong way to massachusetts general hospital where she was admitted. president obama had an inspiring visit to her. fox news was allowed to see her because i'm a phys

joining us is dr. david samadi and he is in san diego. vice chairman of the department of our rolling and chief of robotics at mt. sinai. >> jamie: our doctors are smarter going to these conferences, dr. siegle is here. associate professor of medicine. author of the interpulse and unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. welcome. we want to talk about melanoma because it's the most deadly form of skin cancer. it's void ablt if you stay out of the sun. 70,000 people are affected each year. that number is on the rise and actually the age of patients are getting younger. new research on non-melanoma skin cancer people are getting surgery to treat that. doctor, i'll start with you. what the first line of treatment to least aggressive to most aggressive? >> this is very serious cancer. skin cancer is most common type of cancer. we wanted to distinguish between melanoma that we have spoken in the past and non-melanoma which i want mark to dig in more. melanoma is about 70,000 people get diagnosed with this, 10,000 people die. even thou

fox news medical a team dr. david samadi joins us. the answer is yes? >> if you've got an infection around your back pain, pain area, an antibiotic can solve the problem in many cases? >> this is a fascinating new study. if you talk to a lot orthopedic surgeons they will tell you they thought bacteria caused back pain but they were rare. now a new study says a majority of the pain is caused by bacteria. how does that happen? bacteria from your skin that causes acne or from your teeth can get into your bloodstream and they actually travel that you have this slipped disk, the space between the disk, that is where the bacteria can get in there and causes inflammation. >>steve: that's where the pain comes from. if somebody is watching now, the news is before you get surgery, maybe you should talk to your doctor about putting you on a three-month course of antibiotics? >> if you do this today a lot of doctors will brush it off. i'm sure a lot of people will be skeptical about this. if they put them on 100 days of antibiotics, and the pain -- we're talking ab

look at dr. samadi or myself. we're fine with a little distinguished gray. >> david, what do you think about the finding? >> i think gray hair is perfectly find. >> of course. >> a lot of this is genetics. it's premature. my father at 35 went all gray. stress is a tremendous risk factor. look at the presidents coming in, three years later they are gray. a lot has to do with the body, the defense mechanism. as we age, some of the enzymes, some vacuum cleaners around our head like catalysts. as we age those vacuum cleaners won't work as well. it's not good for hair follicles, almost bleaches hair from inside out. what if you put it back in. that's what the study in. they have something that may show up in our shampoo, medications, et cetera, and that would increase the melanin. what's interesting about this, a lot of the study comes from vitiligo. michael jackson made it famous. they started using it on the skin. it's activated. the skin got melanin and got the color back. we're hoping this will help. >> vitiligo, t

david samadi, chief of robotics at mount sinai medical center. >> kelly: mark is a siegle associate professor of medicine at the medical center and author of the inner pulse unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. >> jamie: that is what we do on sunday morning, unlock the secrets. >> may as you know is stroke awareness month. what can we do to tell people how to avoid strokes. they may be at the tipping point of having one and not even know it. >> this is serious health hazard. we have spoken about it many times. over 700,000 americans are affected by stroke but a lot of it is preventable, as a result of high blood pressure or diabetes, you can prevent this by looking at what you are being and exercising. there are many different types of strokes. the most correspond one, a blood clot will go up and blood can't get to the brain you would have a brain attack, it's like a heart attack. the sooner you get the diagnosis and get the patient to the hospital the more of the brain you are going to save. we've talked about the stroke, "f" stands for facial weakness. we ask them to smile, wea

joining us is dr. david samadi, vice president and chief of robotics at mt. sinai. >> jamie: mark siegle has been very busy joining us live from dallas. he is associate professor at nyu and an author. this week, very similar to last year, doc, you got on the bike with very special heroes and with former president george w. bush. tell us about it? >> good morning. i'm here in dallas this morning, but for the last three days i am privileged to be on the ranch with former president george bush. the ride is actually on his ranch. he has very tough trails there. we made it through. it was raining and muddy. you saw the set up the wooded areas. i am happy to say outside of a couple of charlie horses and dr. samadi says my psa went up but it's great. >> for the third annual warrior 100-k bike ride president bush selected 15 warriors to ride his trails. the message for those warriors and for veterans everywhere is for exercise to help them improve the quality of life to make you feel better about yourself. this message extends to all of us. >> we have some pretty tou

dr. david samadi is here to weigh in. such a sad story. obviously when parents see that, or anybody sees that, they want to help this little girl. what is the rule in place? she is 10 and can't on the adult list? >> the cutting age is 12 years old. and the upper end is 60 sometimes 65. this is a genetic disease. she has had it for years, cystic fibrosis. the condition is getting worse. she has been waiting for years to get a transplant but the only way she will be able to get that is all the adults will either say no or if there is an extra one it will go to her. historically i can tell you on a surgical basis it was always very difficult to take a 200-pound lung from a man or woman to give it to a child. but now surgically we have advanced, technology has changed, we are able to take part of the lung and give it to her. it is unfortunate because of two years she is not making the list. and they should change that. >>gretchen: the one problem is that pediatric lungs are rare. in other words, another child would have to die and be on the do

joining us this morning, dr. david samadi. chief of robotics at mt. sinai medical center. >> jamie: mark siegle associate oppress of medicine. he is author of the book, the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness. we're going to unlock a lot of secrets this morning. good to see you. first, a major breakthrough in dealing with the treatment of diabetes, a medicine that may be able to stabilize insulin levels without the daily

joining us this morning, dr. david samadi. chief of robotics at mt. sinai medical center. >> jamie: mark siegle associate oppress of medicine. he is author of the book, the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness. we're going to unlock a lot of secrets this morning. good to see you. first, a major breakthrough in dealing with the treatment of diabetes, a medicine that may be able to stabilize insulin levels without the daily injections. doctor, this is amazing for diabetics. what does this mean and what does it portend? >> can you imagine treating yourself without any injections. we desperately some kind of cure in order to control diabetes. in this particular thing over the last year we have covered talking pancreatic, transplant pacemakers. they have come up with beta preponderance tied that would insulin for juvenile diabetes that is going to change the whole field. this particular one is of interest to me because they are talking about nano particles. it's the smallest particles that become like a network. you inject it under the skin.

dr. david samadi, thank you very much. please don't be mad at me about the bmi thing. >> you're great. arthel: give me a number. that's all i need. >> i will post the information. no problem. always good to see you. >> jon? jon: a woman who advertised her services as an escort on craig's list winds up dead, shot and killed after she took money from a man and then would not have sex with him. he admitted shooting her saying he wanted his money back. guess what, the jury acquitted him of murder charges. our legal panel weighs in on this case next. >>> we are also awaiting president obama. he is expected to speak any minute now in california. we're told he will address some of these concerns about the nsa spying on ordinary americans. that's coming up. arthel: listen to this. we have new information on the acquittal of a texas man who shot an escort after she would not have sex with him. ezekiel gill gert was acquitted of murder charges. a jury finding he was justified in the shooting after 23-year-old craig's list escort who

david samadi is a member of the fax news medical a-team, and starting next month, he will be the new chair of urology at the lennox hill hospital, very rest juice. >> thank you. and also before we start, i want to congratulate my boss, roger ailes, i just learned about the prestigious award that he got. very proud to be part of this institution and have a visionary boss like him. congratulations for doing what you do every day. martha: we all congratulate roger. a great accolade for him. in terms of this little girl, what does she face now? what road -- what possible sort of traps are there in the road for her? >> you know, as a doctor, we wait for these kind of medical miracles all the time, and this family.derful day for her and they fought through this. of course, the six-hour surgery that she went through, we still have to wait for the recovery, she's in the icu. we still have to wait to see what's going to happen, if there's a risk of bleeding or infection, you can have collapsed lungs. she is in a perfect place, the hospital for children in pennsylvania is actually where my bro

david samadi thank you. >> he will be here tomorrow. >> we have very exciting topics. >> great to be here with you. >> i'm kelly wright. that will do it for us. "the journal editorial report" is coming up next. make sure you stick around and watch and have great day, everybody. >> happy father's day. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ . >>> this week on "the journal editorial report" charges of big brother abound in the wake of the nsa surveillance leaks, but in the era of irs targeting, government run health care and exploding federal regulations, should data mining be your biggest worry? will shutting the program down diminish our terror fighting abilities? a new front in the battle over free speech on campus, new just released federal guidelines endanger faculty and stude

david samadi who's the new chair of urology at lennox hill hospital and professor of urology at hofstra lij school of medicine. >> we'll get there. and i never saw him so happy about it. congratulations. >> great opportunity. >> it must be the heat. i mean, the heat is just unbelievable out there in some parts of our country. 124 degrees or so. in death valley. and las vegas authorities saying there that the heat may have killed at least one man inside his home. they say it's nearly 120 degrees today throughout the southwest and those temperatures, look at that red. not going down at all anytime soon. so dr. siegel, what advice do you have on what we need to do? it's more than just staying in air-conditioning. >> you know something? our weather people report about all of the extreme weather we get, tornadoes, hurricanes, but it's actually heat that kills more people than any of these other combined. we lose 1,000 people a year to heat. and the ones i especially want to focus on are our children because we lose 30 babies or young children a year by people leaving them in cars. and becaus

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david samadi is chair of urology, professor of urology at the hofstra north share lij school of medicine and a member of our fox medical a-team. good to see you, doc. >> >> nice to see you. arthel: briefly, tell me what the virus is, mainly, why is the world health organization concerned and how contagious is it? >> well, i think it's a good move, and the fact that they're looking into it, i think it's absolutely the right choice. but i want people to know that this is right now, it's not epidemic. and also who knows this. they're meeting on an emergency basis because sometimes this virus, just like sars in 2002, they can change their face. they can mutate. and all of a sudden we're going to have an epidemic. what really came up recently in the journal of -- [inaudible] in 55 of these patients, they're understanding more about this disease and the virus. and what they have something called a speedometer, it's a measure of finding out whether a virus is becoming epidemic or not. if the number is less than one, we are safe. if it's over one, then we have, we're getting close to epidemic. w

joining us, dr. david samadi and dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at nyu's lango medical center. doctors, good morning. your colleagues in san francisco must have been and are very busy today. marc, what do they deal with? how do they treat these patients? what's the first priority? >> right on the scene they have to triage. the way they've been triaging in california lately, something called s.t.a.r.t. a program they're using. they first will decide the people that can walk they set aside. those people are probably okay. in this case there were spinal injuries. you saw on the scene people that had injured spines they put on boards. they tape them, literally, their head to the board because they don't want any movement with a spinal injury whatsoever. can they breathe? do they need an airway to help them breathe? is there any bleeding going on? what is their mental status? those are the first things you think about. you know what happens in a situation like this? people get injured and they don't even kno

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dr. david samadi, a mel per of the fox news medical a-team. before we get started, are you suffering from heat rage? do i snead to know anything? >> no, i'm okay. jenna: you look cool and in control. >> there is no anger. jenna: is heat rage a real condition? >> it is. there is published data from years ago, the summertime the level of violence is much higher and people get angry and cranky. part of it heat directly affects the brain. you're not sleeping as well because a lot of people may not have access to air-conditioning. lack of sleep and effect and tired of being pushed away. also in new york the traffic and everything else it ads up. jenna: it is overwhelming in a big city but really anywhere day after day with the really high temperatures. on a more serious note we talk to our viewers about the concerns one can have when you're out in loft hot weather. it is easy to have it wash over us as it goes in day after day. how serious is the heat with when it comes to real health conditions? >> it is quite serious. looks like the whole country

." >> dr. samadi is here, too. david samadi, chairman of neurology at lennox hill hospital and chief of robotic surgery. i'll go first. eric's doing great. i'm doing great. you might have the stomach virus definitely going around. hundreds of people have been sick across more than a dozen states. it's spreading, too. we wanted to ask you, dr. samadi, where is this coming from? it does seem in the nice weather you wouldn't expect so many people to be down with the flu or a virus. >> this is really nothing new. almost every other month we're coming up with listeria. we just had hepatitis a in the restaurants. now we see the psych lo spocycl. it's coming, jamie, from food, contaminated food and water. >> how do you know when you go to a restaurant or you buy something in the grocery store, maybe it even lives in your own refrigerator too long, y

dr. david samadi is here. chairman of urology at lenknox hill hospital. chief of robotics as well. great to have you both here. first thing we wanted to talk about, there's a new warning. experts are looking into the danger of overdiagnosis and the treatment of cancer, suggesting that a change in the definition of cancer, they might want to do that in the hopes that patients with nonlife threatening diseases would avoid being overdiagnosed and subject to needless radiation and testing and treatment. i wanted to start with you, dr. sama samadi. >> actually this article came out of jama. we've had a lot of discussion about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. the truth is look at some of the facts. screening we know in the last two or three decades has reduced the number offal mortality. when you screen and overdiagnosis, of course, if you look for them, you're going to find them. the truth is -- >> that doesn't make any sense to me. >> if you start screening for cancer, you're going to find more and more of these diseases. then the question is, which one really are life threatening and

dr. david samadi, fox news medical a team, is here to help us figure out what to do. there was a big scare that went across the country. the first thing you're talking about is vegetables. what should we do. >> this comes up all the time. cantaloupes, about a year ago thousands of people got affected. these are avoidable problems. nine million people are affected. when it comes to food and vegetables, a lot of any mall feces, farmers may not be washing their hands, most of the stuff we're talking about is salmonella and e. coli. what you have to do, really wash your fruits and srepbl tabls thoroughly. -- vegetables though -- thoroughly. when it comes to cantaloupes, you need to wash them, dry them up. that is the way you get rid of bacteria. most people take a knife and already the bacteria gets in. >>gretchen: even with at orange, scrub the outside before you peel it. let's talk about eggs. >> same thing. the shells outside could be contaminated. salmonella is a big deal. make sure you wash it. nobody thinks of washing their eggs. also wash your hands afterwards. cer

dr. david samadi is the chair of lenox hospital's urology department and professor of urology. fox news medical a-teamer. that's why we are asking you about this. the reason i didn't want to tell people is i thought if i teased it they would stick around and it is that for, dr. samadi. sugar is almost as bad as salt, it turns out. it is in things we don't even know. first tell us about the study. >> this is a very for one. it was published in new england jurn afl medicine. comes from seattle. they looked at about 2,000 pr advertise pants and followed them for long enough period that nice thing about the study is they looked at both diabetics and nondiabetics and had a control group and were able to see that among diabetics, you have an increase of 41%, increased risk of dementia and alzheimer's. will some connection between being diabetic and leading to this kind of alzheimer's. this is not a foreign topic to you. every week we are doing this. we talked about anemia and dementia. we talk about high blood pressure and dementia. now diabetes. >> not just diabetes, though. even pe

joining us this morning is dr. david samadi. >> dr. marc siegel who normally doesn't but i think today has got something with him. he may be doing an on camera procedure. associate professor of new york's langone medical center. doctors, we don't just tell people about stuff. they're actually going to show them later. that's a tease. why not? it has to do with heart disease. it's the number one killer in the u.s. for men and women said to be a hidden illness for women who often don't recognize the signs. every year people die without knowing they even had a heart history. earlier this week or last week president george w. bush underwent a heart procedure found on routine exam. they placed a stent to open a blocked artery. since it's sort of a surgical procedure, we'll start with you, dr. samadi. how many people in america have this procedure? >> about half a million americans are now getting this kind of procedure. it's called cardiac stent. what has happened over here is that in 2006, they found out he has a low risk for heart attack.

let's bring in dr. david samadi, chair of urology at lennox hill hospital. great to see you. >> nice to see you. alisyn: the numbers are staggering, one in five americans will die from obesity, previously thought it was just 5%. what happened? >> obviously, this is not good news. we've been talking about this for a long time. before we get into all of these numbers and details, i really want you and the audience to really understand what obesity is about. so cosmetically, obviously, everyone would see the fat around the belly, but what really happens inside the body is a totally different thing. you have the fat that can sit around the kidney, and it pushes the kidney so now you cannot get rid of all the sodium in the body. what happens? you're already a physician by now. that's when the blood pressure starts to go up. so people end up with high blood pressure. obesity in the fat can affect the muscles, so now all of a sudden the insulin doesn't work. what happens? diabetes. so now you have high blood pressure, diabetes. same amount of fat can sit around the

it's how much you weigh for your given height on a scale. >> dr. samadi, can you google it and find that scale so i can do it at home? >> i'm going to post-it on my own facebook. there's a formula for it. the truth is we are not -- we're failing the war against obesity. if you look at what we've spoken about in the last year or so, we talk about portion control. watch what you're eating. cut the fat. it's not working. this news is really not so great for us. we thought it was 5%. it's 18%. nobody dies from obesity directly. on a death certificate they don't put death from obesity. they put myocardial infarction or heart attack or stroke. the fat around the organs that we care about, fat around the kidneys, completely changes your sodium metabolism. you get high blood pressure because your hormones are out of whack. you get resistance to insulin. what happens when your insulin is not working? your pancreas is exhausted. you get diabetes. the fat around the liver. the portal vein. that's a gateway to the liver. it's supposed to filter all of our chol

joining us now is fox news dr. david samadi. the chair of urology at lenox hill hospital and professor of urology at the hofstra north shore long island school of medicine. good to see you. we get another stud write out here that talks about the benefits of women making sure they eat plenty of fish to ghetto make a fatty 3 acids to do some sort of prevention for alleviate rheumatoid arthritis. >> it is very interesting because i think omega 3 patty acids is become the celebrity of all these herbs. every week we are getting news about this. for the longest time, omega 3 fatty acid, great for the heart, reduces inflammation and reduce it is risk of heart attacks. that's fairly established. we, in my field of prostate cancer, we thought it will help you to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. we are finding out too much of owe make 3 fatty acid is not great for prostate cancer. will has been a lot of publicity about this in the past month or so. talking about rheumatoid arthritis. the base of arthritis is all infloridamation. what o