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question you'd like took ask me, send it my way on twitter or facebook. that's it for today. thanks for joining me. until next time, i hope you're learning to be more of "a healthy you." fox news alert, one person in custody, a suspect taken into custody there at overland park. multiple shootings at a jewish community center in kansas. at least one person killed and a second in critical condition after a gunman opened fire outside the jewish community center of greater kansas city in overland park, which is near kansas city as children were auditioning for a talent competition. the shooter apparently moved to an assisted living center blocks away called village shalom. that facility has been taken off lockdown. witnesses say the shooting may
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have been racially motivated after the suspect shouted hi hitler. brian with the latest. what do you have for us? >> this happened 1:00 local time at the jewish community center. we're getting roads three people could be dead after the incident. the man or suspect has been taken by police at the valley park elementary school which is about a mile away from the village shalom assisted living. we're talking about two shootings, the same suspect. two, jewish community center and assisted living center a few miles apart. the first person shot and killed in the parking lot of jewish community center. shots rang out a mile south at
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village shalom at the assisted living center. as you said, there was an audition going on inside the community center at the time. we're getting reports when the suspect was taken into custody he was heard saying heil hitler. those are local reports. we haven't been able to confirm that ourselves. he's taken into custody. one person dead and another in critical condition. as many as three dead is what we're hearing from reports there in overland park. >> thank you very much for this update. we're going to continue to stay on top of this story as they come in. meantime we'll get you back now to sunday "housecall." >> i agree this is big news. last year i reported on a device developed by the army that took paralyzed people and made a robot device and enabled them to
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walk again. i think this will go together with that because this is allowing people that have had paralysis total muscle paralysis. they still have sensation most of them. they studied four people. one they have been studying since 2009. you know what they talked about the most, return of bladder and bowel function and return of sexual function. that is so important to these individuals. standing, voluntary movement, move your toes, voluntary movement of toes. movement of bowel and bladder is incredibly important to them. electrical stimulation. the brain uses electrical stimulation. now we're using it from something we implant in the spine. >> you know what else i read. i want to ask you this, dr. samadi. you're talking about lifestyle, return to better lifestyle. these patients were able to sweat. that's important. they couldn't go outside. if you're out in the sun and you can't sweat, that's very
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dangerous. >> what's important, i'm glad you're bringing this up. it's absolutely critical for them to feel the pain. when we're sitting, there are nerve sensations after half an hour, an hour, you feel the sensation and you move. what happens if you don't have pain sensation near the skin, you would end up getting sore. you would get lesions. >> bed sores. >> all of that. now in these patients we're seeing they are getting pain sensation. they are starting to sweat, starting to move. i want to go back to the point marc brought up, bladder activity, sexual function and bowel movement, which is a huge part of their quality of life. standing is one thing. if the bladder can send a sensation to the brain and bring it back and say time to void, now you're changing the whole quality of life. the thing we take for granted every day. >> can this lead to paralyzed people not being paralyzed? >> absolutely. i want to point out, in addition to people walking again, from a medical point of view, it will
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enable me to control blood pressure better, the amount of wounds, a lot less people dying. eric, when you're mobile everything increases your risk of blood clot, stroke, everything increases. get them up and walking and the chances of having a medical problem -- >> it has to do with people living with hepatitis c. researchers unveiled a new drug they claim has cured 90% of people who have hepatitis c. dr. siegel, what type of breakthrough is this and what does it mean? >> this is enormous. david warned me you're going to say, is this available now? yes, it is available now. these two drugs have already been approved. they are in your doctor's office now. you have to get a special doctor to order it. the fda has approved these two drugs. i'll tell you what's excite, we've fwn relying on a drug called enter ferron. you have to give it by
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injection. it takes a year to work. half the people who get it for hepatitis c don't respond, the other half have to go off. some people with chronic diseases can't take it. for the very first time we're able to take protocols that don't use it, use this drug instead. what this does, it prevents the virus from replicating, making more of itself and spreading to other cells. there was a 95 to 100% response over 12 to 24 weeks. when they took patients and studied them later, they found for the most part the virus disappeared. this is a cure. for cirrhosis or liver disease, you want to prevent this. >> how prevalent is hepatitis c. >> 15,000 deaths from liver failure and cirrhosis. as surgeons we're more scared of hepatitis c than hiv.
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>> why? >> blood transmission, needle stick, there's no vaccine for it it. you want to be very careful. can lead to cirrhosis, scarring of the liver, more important cancer of the liver, which is a deadly position to be in. having this kind of medication, oral medication that's going to help, it's really going to change the way we would practice liver cancer, et cetera. the number of liver transplants in the future will go down. in this study published in new england journal of medicine, patients given, 90% cure. >> that's amazing. >> where are we going? is it going to slow down transmission from one patient to another? we don't know yet. is it going to reduce liver cancers, we still need information. >> what about money, it's expensive? >> $1,000 a day. >> does insurance cover it? >> that's one of the things we
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always worry about. we don't get into politics on this show but i have to tell you, i'm not sure insurance will cover it. baby boomers are the target generation for this. i'll tell you why, before this was available in 1992, a lot of people got it from blood transfusions and did not know they have it and still don't know they have it. get tested for hepatitis c, that's the thing. >> the majority of the patient may have hepatitis c and don't have symptoms. that's what you want to know. by the time it's chronic and cirrhosis, it's too late. >> all right. sounds good. we see commercials all over. now a new warning for men taking drugs for ed. why doctors say erectile dysfunction may increase your risk for a deadly form of cancer. stay with us. gunderman group.
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a new health alert now about some of those very popular drugs for erectile dysfunction. doctors are now warning they can a new health alert now about some of those very popular drugs for erectile dysfunction. doctors are now warning they can raise a man's risk for developing a deadly form of skin cancer. dr. samadi. a lot of people are taking these meds these days. >> this started to come into my practice. a lot of patients started to ask me if i'm taking viagra am i at a high risk for skin cancer? this is an observational study. you have to be very careful about the way we interpret this. it was published in "jama," 26,000 men. they looked at it since 2000. they found the ones taking viagra have a higher risk of getting skin cancer. i will tell you that this study is not complete, and we still have to wait for further investigation. similar studies three years ago coming out of germany using viagra as a treatment for melanoma and skin cancer, completely opposite effect,
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saying that skin cancer can cause inflammation, inflammation leaves to boost your immune system and viagra can fight the inflammation and can cure the skin cancer, completely conflicting studies. i would tell people not to panic. perhaps in our practice we should pay attention to patient with history of melanoma and not give them this kind of medication and be careful about it. does it cause -- does viagra cause skin cancer and also levitra and cialis, the answer is no. we need further study. >> dr. siegel, these drugs are not all the same. people see the commercials, see cialis and viagra, they are different. >> first of all, this one studying viagra. the other two, cialis and levitra are longer acting. every week we come on here, and people might say, this is one of our trademarks here, this is not double blinded, randomized prospective trial, which is the best kind of science. you gave one group viagra and another group who
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didn't and saw who developed melanoma. >> we can say multi-vitamins are great for you and another week multi-vitamins are bad for you, tamiflu is good for you, bad for you, same thing with viagra. you can't practice medicine that way and can't deliver science that way so here's what i say. we already know baby boomers are at increased risk for melanoma because we burned ourselves when we were kids, because we didn't know about sunscreen, so when i see a baby boomer in the office, i check their ears, i check their neck, i check their scalp, i check their face especially, i look for signs of irregularity and we've talked about melanoma on the show, irregular borders, different colors, raised, larger than 6 millimeters, look for several different signs of melanoma. i want people to screen for melanoma. i do not want them to stop prescribing viagra as a result of this. >> shouldn't you get a body check coming into summer? >> you should do that. these medications are not always the answer and look -- look at the obesity, diabetes,
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high blood pressure, some of the risks, lack of sleep, alcohol intake. you should exhaust taking care of those before you go straight to viagra and other thing, and the other thing is really how important is sex in your life? i would tell you as a urologist, this is serious, there are a lot of health benefits to having sex. you're cognitive skills and cardiac and immune system, so it's a big part of this, and i would encourage people. now a lot of people say i get a prescription for three times a week so my wife will follow, two to three times a week and if more, god bless you. there's absolutely health benefits to having regular sexual function. >> i celebrated my 11th anniversary yesterday and i'm taking the prescription home apparently. >> the final thing, i would say, it's a reminder for physicians to think twice before prescribing any medication but before you say don't do it you need better science than this. >> great advice. thanks so much. you know when you listen to music and you're driving your
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car, ever put those little -- ever put those things in your ear, the ear buds. >> can you share them? >> can you share them. >> coming up the doctors will give us the answer whether we really should be sharing them. you see college kids and teens doing that sometimes. you think that's a good idea? "sunday house call" back in a flash. ♪ i know a thing about an ira ♪ and i got the tools ♪ to do it my way ♪ i got a lock on equities ♪ that's why i'm type e ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ i can do it all from my mobile phone ♪ ♪ that's why i'm tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ if i need some help i'm not alone ♪ ♪ we're all tyyyyype eeeee, ♪ ♪ we've got a place that we call home ♪ ♪ we're all type e ♪
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and ba n and back now with the doctors and our segment, should i worry? our weekly segment about everything that worries us. this week's topic comes from a brand new study that warns about the sharing of these ear buds, you know the little thingys you put in your ears when you listen to music or talk on the phone because they say they are covered with a bacteria. >> ew. >> like sharing straws or drinking out of soda cans. should you share ear buds?
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>> no topic is off limits on this show. you should not share ear buds, and i'll tell you why. by the way, that applies to these things we wear. >> the ifbs. >> a guy will give me one of these but i would rather bring my own. >> the thing in your ear, the producer can talk to you. >> you don't know where this thing has been before. >> the producer can talk to you. >> coated with bacteria, and when they are in this warm moist place inside there, it gets more and more bacteria, and studies have shown this multiply astronomically inside ear. >> wow. >> and that includes bugs like mrsa, superbugs grow in there but what they haven't shown yet is passing this back and forth leads to ear infection. it hasn't been proven yet but i don't want that infection. if you saw below the microscope you wouldn't believe what you see and the headsets, apparently those transfer lice. >> lice? >> lice. >> you're a real pick me up, dr. siegel. >> you can't get away -- you can't get away from it by going to these, but if you use these wipe them off with alcohol swabs
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so do not share them. >> dr. samadi, you come packing there with alcohol. >> after you scared all of america. >> i want to use one on mine actually. >> this is very simple. >> this is what you're supposed to be doing. before you use any of these, whether you're putting it in your ears -- doctors, we always exchange stethoscopes. >> have a lot of makeup on mine. >> you're a parent. you should tell your teenagers this. you know what the kids do these days. share music. the ear canal is hot and humid. we have to be careful how we see that. a lot of bacteria, mrsa, it can stick on here. meantime every time he comes he asks for the same one jamie colby. the risk of infection, seriously, is very low.
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unless you are on chemotherapy, transplantations, you have low immune -- compromised, risk of getting infection are very low, but what we want people to know is you can pass on some of these bacterias. if there's open sore -- >> sterilize them and don't share. >> yes. >> i think i hear better now too. >> i think i hear better, now, too. >> you have a cut you can get an infection. >> if you have an opening, you have cut your ear or smith like that. >> you want to be careful. >> i think i know the answer to this question because i like a little bag of doritos but what effect does junk food have on your brain? could it rewire it in the surprise, findings from a new study on how all the doughnuts and cheeseburgers -- that is not my thing -- the effect is more than just your weight. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out.
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well, i yo in >> if you were feeling less motivated than encouragal it could be junk food. rewiring your brain can make you lazy. researchers can prove that. eating chips, cookies, cupcakes and more, will make you gain weight but it has a negative effect on your behavior. are we talking about backing arrest from the chips aisle? >> no, they are saying that you are what you eat, that is correct, but in this study, it is a grad study, some had junk food and some healthy. if you take a lot of the junk food, you are going to gain weight and you can become lazy. it is the food that makes you obese and laid. that is the first finding. you should cut down on fat, sugar, and carbohydrates.
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that is what is high in sugar and it slows you down and starts to take the -- you should take the fruits and vegetable. >> always go with moderation. there could be a football game it is okay to take some or even try viagra once in a while, it is fine, but, you know, moderation is okay. in general, taking too much of this is not so good. >> does it -- the rats, the rats in the study, does it rewire their brains? >> they took the fat out and they gave the ats cornmeal and fish, healthy, or something full of processed food or carbohydrates and those rats got fat but they laid around. we already know the reason for this. it is chemicals in the brain that you need and you get them from exercise and from eating
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the right foods. the brain makes hose and that is what copes you healthy. when you eat the fast food your brake stops make the happy hormones and starts craving the bad stuff and when you start to crave the bad stuff you lay around. you need dopamine to be active. you lay around, you are going to get fat or ice is -- obese. it is not just the rats. >> it feels like the more you eat the more you want. is it addictive? >> excellent point. there is part of the brain, the reward center, that is used to it and you build a higher threshold. breaking the cycle, getting into the right lifestyle, that is the way to go. certain foods could be healthy but make you tired. for example, everyone knows about turkey which is a great food but it has tons of a
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chemical including hummus, bananas and certain fish, which can calm your muscle down and make you tired. so take these in moderation. >> if you go to the fancy diet books you will find a million explanations but the nutritionists will it will, a lot of different colors, fruit and vegetables and a lost fiber and fruit and vegetables. >> is there really any junk food that is not so bad for you? >> celery is not a junk food. >> that's not a junk food. >> a chocolate cookie. >> a chocolate cookie at 4:00.
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>> a cookie a day. >> it has been fun to be here. that does it for us. >> thanks for watching sunday "house calls." >> she resigned from cbs news after getting most of her reports on the air and the push back she got from the obama administration and what cbs does to her best stories. >> they would never run. or it dies the death of a thousand cuts if it is something they don't like or want it will be changed, survived, and shortened, it is a shadow of its former self. that is not a good operating environment. >> the correspondent on why cbs changed position when president obama took office and
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