empty. psa has saved lives over the last two decades. we know based on the cda statistics it reduced the rate of the spread of cancer. so if it does help and you need to know that. >> doctor siegel, you are a man, i'm a man, i should go every year then and tell my doctor that i want a psa test every year? >> i agree with david on this because for the simple reason that we are in the business as primary care doctors of finding out what's wrong with you out there. if you are a man over the age of 40, and i want to know what's wrapping with your prostate, i have to start somewhere. i do a digital examination but that's not enough. the psa will tell me if it's elevated there may be something wrong with your prostate. it may be inflamed, may be infected, maybe you need antibiotics, maybe it's enlarged and maybe you have prostate cancer. what it has done is it's made us make that diagnosis of prostate cancer a lot earlier.

with 2.5 million men with prostate cancer, 90% of america has said they want to know. men want to know if they have prostate cancer. the problem, if you overbiopsy, isn't the psa, the problem is if you do surgery unnecessarily isn't the psa. the psa is a tool. the us preventive service task force should be ashamed of themselves. they aren't cancer specialists, don't specialize in this, if this test goes bay the way side and insurance won't cover it and i won't be able to order it and i need to to save lives and send appropriate patience to doctors. >> the message this morning is keep on getting it. also a pretty startling warning for people who take antibiotics. the new study foundation row max suddenly increases the potential of sudden-death. are you kidding me? dr. siegel. who is this about? >> the 55 million prescriptions written every here your

zithromycin. we are overprescription it. it's a wake-up call for not overprescribing. on the other hand, the study that looked at over 350,000 men and women, the truth is that it only shows that you go from the chances of dying from this from 3 per million up to 6 per million. so even though that's double, it's still very, very rare and it only affects people who have heart disease, people with diabetes, people with high risk. so i believe that this antibiotic is very safe. i believe almost all of the time i can prescribe it safely, but it it is a reminder to me that i may be overprescribing it. >> why would they have this type of study? we have these and they scare the ellis out of you. >> sudden-death, you will all of a sudden stop breathing? please clarify. >> the truth is it's not actually new news. it's a part of a group of antibiotics that can occasionally, very rarely, cause

heart arrhythmia in very rare situations with people already at risk. >> what can happen? >> i want to echo what marc said but a little twist. this was a great study published in the new england journal of medicine. they looked at it for over 14 years, a big volume. what they are saying it can increase the risk of sudden heart attack by threefold. >> at every age? >> the 350,000 people they looked at. and we also know, we just talked about sinus infection a week ago. only 2% of them are as a result of basket tearial infection, most of them are viral 55 million prescriptions are overprescribed. we are doing it too much. talk to your doctor, especially if you are heart disease or diabetes, you want to use other medications that may be safer. >> that's so important what you just said. you should ask your doctor is it it viral or basket tearial

because viral will not respond to this, and if you have heart disease you should definitely tell your done tore. >> it's a simple question. we talked about it in the past. and your calk tore do i really need this? that simple question opens a nice communication with your doctor and may save you from some of the side effects. >> that's so important. >> what i take from this, question your doctor sometimes. >> absolutely. >> i don't want anybody to be scared. it's still safe. >> that's why i pushed for an answer because sudden-death is not something we can ignore. could a popular cancer test also detect the early signs of parkinson's? we have the latest on a surprising new study as well on this. >> and it's a major milestone for one of the world's most famous bridges. we will be live in san francisco for the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. >> she is pretty.

>> back now with sunday house call. the potential breakthrough in diagnosing parkinsan's disease. getting a colonoscopy think can provide an early diagnosis. what's the connection? >> parkinsan's disease is a very, very common disease, right after alzheimer's. it usually hits around the age of 50. it comes in very gradual but it's a progressive disease. it's a disease that overtime it can only get worse and worse. the signature of parkinson's is tremor at rest. when somebody is sitting in the same spot, that's when they start to have the tremor. as they start walking the tremor actually goes away. it's usually on one side of the body, they have rigid muss he is, they don't move as much,

they speak slowly and with time there could be dementia. the diagnosis of it is very difficult. we check tore dopamine levels and they may have some proteins in their brain. those are detailed stuff they do. the treatment is obviously to give the dopamine back. now for the first time through a colon scope, they have found some proteins, but if they find them, it's a tumor marker or a screening process to find out if they are going to get parkinson's within two to five years. now what is also interesting is they went back and found the patients that have parkinson's and did a colonoscopy on them and found the same proteins in them and didn't find them in normal people or healthy ones. through the colonoscopy, we know we are getting them starting 50, maybe moving forward they will get a biopsy and find out if the protein is there because if we

fine it early we can intervene and delay the process. >> when you go for a colonoscopy, and everyone in my view should get one, should you ask your doctor, by the way, doc, take a snippet to see if i have this marker for parkinson's? >> eric, we aren't there yet. but this is a small study but it reminds people the organs of the body are tied together. by the time somebody comes to my office and i'm diagnosing them with parkinson's with the rigidity that david was talking about or tremor or unsteady gait, a long time has passed. the exciting thing here is the protein is found both in the brain of parkinson's patients and now in the colon. if you find it before they develop the disease, they may find a way to block it before it develops. so this is the wave of the future. this is what we are trying to do in medicine in general right now. see if you have the genetics for it, see if you develop the abnormal proteins for it.

if you find it if the colon, it's wild but it may be the same protein you find in the brain. >> what should you do when you see your doctor? >> it's too soon to ask your doctor to check your doctor for your this protein but it's not too soon to ask your doctor if they are reading up on it. >> where was it done? >> in chicago at rush university, the study. >> we will follow up on that. taking your viewer e-mail. this one came from patricia in pennsylvania. and patricia wants to know, doc, i've been suffering with fibromyalgia and raynauds disease for years. are there any treatments on the horizon to help deal with the many symptoms of these medical issues present? >> fibromyalgia is very difficult to take care of. the patients go from doctor to

doctor to find the problem. what it is, it is really a pain across your body, in the giants, not the muscle, in the tendons, soft tissues and there's no good treatment. we find x-rays, physical exams are normal so it's a clinical diagnosis. if you have this kind of pain for three months, if you have sleeping disorders, causes fatigue, they have a lot of met boll lick syndromes, and depression that comes with it. so these patience -- >> you mean clinical diagnosis that your doctor has to be a student of to look at you and examine you because blood work may not show this? >> exactly right. and the question is what to do with it. chronically we've been giving them antidepressants and anti-convulsants and nothing really works. there's a new device and study in a small number. patients. one of the things about house call i like is we are bringing exciting news. this is great medical news in the literature that people are going to learn from this. now it causes some magnetic

changes in the brain that can actually reduce the pain. they have to do it every day for about a month. preliminary study shows that this works. with raynauds, it's capillaries at the tip of the fingers. the when the weather gets cold they feel numb. we see this a lot in patients. wear gloves and no smoking and given viagra given at times can help. >> i don't know if patricia is going to be going to get viagra from her doctor, but she is suffering. what else can you tell her to do today? >> the first thing you have to do is know what this is. with fibromyalgia it's hard to define. but it's a lot of fatigue. it's tend are points in your neck and shoulders and your back, in your giants. it can be brought on by -- and pain. it can be brought on by stress. it can be brought on by a car accident, believe it or not, an infection, and bam, you are not getting better and you suddenly

have this. it's something called fobro fog where you can't concentrate. it has a lot to do with lack of exercise and stress. >> 23 you figure out you may have it and you go to your doctor and you have described all those things, the lack of sleep, under stress, fingers are cold, can your doctor do anything for you? >> believe it or not the answer i'm going to give today is very mundane, it's actually more sleep, more exercise. it's actually decreasing stress. you have to do that if you have guy bro -- guy bra. it. it's a lifestyle alteration. 15% have this problem in the fingers and cold brings on blue fingers and it's literally the arteries in the finger constrict. we have medication wes can use there. but the thing we have to do is figure out ways to get those

fingers warm because that can be a huge problem with raynauds. >> instead of the patient going from doctor to doctor you want to bring all the doctors under one roof, multi-disciplinary, medical doctors, mental health units, and they talk to each other to take care of this kind of patient. >> the patient has to be a good consumer and get as many answers at one time. patricia, thank you for writing. i know the doctors are willing to answer these questions on our program. so if you have a question for the doctors, it's easy, just send on e-mail to house call, one word at foxnews.com. thanks, patricia, for sending that question. >> e-mails are important. people are jogging and know it's a way to stay physical fit. but now they say it can add years to your life. we will explain. >> and a storm threatening the southeastern us. look how big it is.

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>> that's a clip. it's a fictional medical show. programs like it make for great entertainment but some people base their actual medical information on these shows. dr. seeing goal, i believe everybody marcus wellby said. should we rely on what we hear on the fictional shows? >> yes and no. i've been writing a column for seven years looking for tv accuracy and i love to analyze "house." the first thing you mentioned, you mentioned marcus wellby. he's cantankerous, irritable, and reminds people your own doctor may be that way but even if they are, they may be giving

you the right information. so don't write them off because they are a little brusk. the second thing is he has a drug problem. that reminds you doctors are real people too. and they can bring up diagnoses people don't think of. people can advocate for themselves and gives a lot of information. and i noticed over the eight years it got better and better. but what is wrong with the show is that the drama takes over and a lot of times you are left feeling that this rare disease could really be happening to you, and it probably won't be. i have one i wrote about where somebody swallowed a toothpick and couldn't find it on any scan and made holes in every organ and then i looked up tooth picks and found out they could be found on an mri. they probably knew that but didn't want to say it because it took away the drama. now they brought up the idea of what real robotic surgery was and he informed the public.

>> in that case it was helpful. >> i happen to like this. i think a little drama, it brought us to our operating room, it actually shows what the medical field is about. what they do is they take a case and they come up with a different diagnosis. and the whole series is about trying to solve it. i think a lot of times people may have never known what it's like to be in the hospital or the operating room and now they get to see it and see what our life is like. of course, it's entertainment and you have to take the advice that when you watch it with a grain of salt and talk to the real doctor. but overall i think it's fun. it's entertainment. >> you know what is wrong with doctor house? he's done. he's off the air. that's one of the best, most interesting series, and even doctors who watched it thought it was accurate. they all have medical consultants on these showing. >> it may not happen the way they say it will happen but at the end of the show he falls through the floor of a burning building. and i tell you if that happens to you out there, you better watch out. >> it was such a great series.

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>> jamie: in you are looking at a few more years on your life -- and who isn't? researchers are suggesting have you to lace up your running shoes and take regular, gentle jogs a few times a week. doctor, no? but for everybody else? >> finally, we can say hajogging is good for you. this is from copen haigan heart study. they realized that if you are jogging for an hour and-a-half to two hours a week, you can increase your life expectancy by 6 years and reduce death 44%. it increases good cholesterol, hdl, increases oxygen intake and insulin sensitivity against diabetes. it's a great thing. hopefully, the weather will be nice and you can go out and do

it. >> jamie: endorfins, too? >> and dope mean, the good hormones in the brain. it decreases inflammation throughout the body and the body's attempts to clot. it is really, really good for you exercise. what is really exciting, we are talking 1 to 2 1/2 hours a week. everybody out there can do that. that's 15, 20 minutes a day on a treadmill. if you can't jog, even walking is good for you. you have to do something. >> have you to do exercise. >> the question that comes up, mark, you have to learn how it jog. some people really over-do it and they can damage the joints. the kneesism you know, that's a great point t. speaks to another point, which is that exercise is addictive. don't try to do too much and give up and say, i can't run a marathon like our senior producer, right i. jay's going to live to 125, based on this