i know that i have. and that you're learning to be more of a healthy you. see you next time. time now for "sunday housecall." >> welcome. joining us as always doctor david samadi. he's also chief of robotic surgery there. >> and dr. marc siegel. professor of medicine at nyu's medical center, also author of "unlock the secret code of sickness and health". >> nice to see you. >> i want to talk about this. we have a major news story, the centers for disease control and prevention now under serious

fire following a major mishap in three of its facilities after 80 workers were reportedly exposed to anthrax. how much do you know about this and how does something like this happen? >> it's shocking new that cdc announced this week that on june 13th, a mishap happened which should have never happened. this is a very sophisticated lab in thereabout. they deal with ebola and small pox. they deal with anthrax. they have a lot of protocol and unfortunately it failed this time. one big lab sent a live anthrax to another lab. they thought it was dead, but they found out a few days after it was live and a lot of people were exposed to this. they are all being treated. nobody is getting sick at this point. it can take two months before the symptoms would start. you would ask what exactly people should be looking for. they would see painless ulcers

and lesions. more importantly, since it became aerosolized. if you inhale, you can get fever, chills, short of breath. the concern you may have is, it cannot be transmitted from one person to another person. i would not be able to get it because it has to be in the air, not contagious like that. but it's lethal, very dangerous. they're being treat sfwld another important point you raised, we don't want to alarm everybody. 80 is a lot of people. but it's not like it's spreading across the city of atlanta or something, right? >> no. and as david just mentioned and i wrote about this in my book, the biggest problem is fear here because anthrax is not contagious. it cannot spread beyond the people already exposed. the cdc has a bioterror rapid

response unit. they're trying to figure out what would happen if god for bid there is another terrorist attack. so they're studying anthrax. they have it in a spore form most likely and they wear respiratory devices. they're protected. instead of keeping it there, they decided let's try killing it with chemicals and then if it's dead, we can send it to another lab that has less of the lung production. >> sure. >> but this was the first time they ever tried that chemical out. they should never have let it out -- >> the chemicals didn't work and didn't kill it. >> didn't work. the chemical didn't work. it was still growing. we have a statement from the cdc. >> eric, why don't you -- >> this is the statement, quote, why this happened is a million-dollar question. these incidents can't happen. the safety of our employees is priority one and once this incident was realized, we moved

swiftly to protect our workers. you mentioned the 2001 incidents. they basically were unsolved, i imagine. there was a hospital worker in new york died. they thought maybe she got it from mailing or from a subway or something. >> that's exactly what the level two lab does and why -- it's important once they kill the anthrax. they're trying to figure out a way to identify anthrax. if you get a white appoint der in an envelope, how do you know it's anthrax. that's what the level two lab is trying to figure out. >> so that chemical didn't work. >> it did work for 24 hours. it did work for 24 hours. just to give credit to cdc. it wasn't completely a huge mistake. it worked for 24 hours. they clean up everything. and then one of those ended up in the incubator. a week after they find out, wait a second. many things we find, now there's live and it actually grew.

so they're making progress using chemicals to kill anthrax as opposed to radiation. now they're going to be treated with cipro and one of the questions -- >> those are antibiotics right? >> they have to take it for about two months. the public should not be panicking. they should not go out there and get piles of cipro. they are treating everybody with vaccine. >> what about their families that they're in touch with? >> again, there's no transmission from person to person. shop nobody should worry. for u.s. army and people in the lab, they can get a vaccine, six of them in about 18 months and prevent from getting anthrax. they probably be give them a boost in the next three months in order to control this. it's a very lethal drug. it killed about five people in 2001 and we just have to wait and see what happens here. >> the key here is the issue of aerosolizing it.

they make it so it can fly through the air. of those 84 people, very unlikely anyone's going to get sick here, especially since they're on antibiotics. if they got sick, the kind that you kwet in the lungs is by far the worst. >> it's contained. they have it under control. >> absolutely. >> what marc is talking about spore is the bacteria that has a shell around it and that's why it's hard -- >> stay in the environment for a long time. stays there for a long time. >> okay. dr. oz, sitting on the hot seat this past week. coming up, why he was forced to publicly apologize and what you need to know about all the medical advice you hear on television. stick around for that. [ male announcer ] are your joints ready for action?

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it was a tough you know it was a tough week for one television doctor, dr. oz. he was getting grilled in front of a senate panel and forced to apologize over his krclaims tha certain weight loss products are miracles. >> he basically said that he's a cheer leader for his audience. he says, i got to help these people. i think, and david and i take this very seriously, you have to stay within your expertise. he's a cardiovascular surgeon. when he starts talking about weight loss products, he's getting into the weeds there. a lot of nigh transition iss have told me they don't see a lot of evidence for these particular items. >> like what? >> one we talked about on the show here. we don't think it works. also he says green tea extract.

it's got an ktive kem in it. it's not been shown to work. here's the thing, we have an extra responsibility as physicians on tv. we're not just reporters, we're not just guests. we are responsible to educate the public accurately on medical information. if we go and make speculations, even if we could be right, we're doing a disservice. i think and we have both said, exercise, mediterranean diet we promote on the show. >> lifestyle. >> lifestyle alteration, not these magic pills you can get over the counter. if you have other medical problems, it can make problems worse. >> if i may jump in, eric, because you know, the two of you, you leave monday through friday, you're going to go in practice. you're in the operating room. dr. oz, he does surgery once a month or something, a little bit limited because he has the prshs of doing a daily talk show.

also, it is an entertainment program. you have producers saying, this is what's popular. >> i know him actually quite well. we used to practice together years ago. i think he's sincere about what he's trying to tell people out there. he sees obesity as a major risk factor. as a cardiac surgeon, he really wants to make a big difference. i think he got into trouble when he let his passion get ahead of him and when you start talking about here's the magic pill, revolutionary fat buster, you have this extract and we know that none of them have really good study to back it up, we know they're not magic pills. and my problem is that sometimes the patients, they really listen and they follow. and when they don't get the results, it's kind of creating a false hope. i think, deep inside, he really wants to make a difference. it's the underscrutiny of the

producers and for the rating. really nobody tells me what to say and what to do. >> nobody could do that anyway, dr. samadi. >> that's what i love about it. >> talk about research, you dashed some of these exact diet claims in a show we did in march. >> you're absolutely right. i made it very clear that there's no research to back it up. there's no long-term data and that's a problem. one more thing. fda, and it's time for fda to get involved, if it's not going to be regulated, then we're going to have mark siegel's anti-aging and we're going to have -- maybe come up with some magic pill. that's what it is. i think that he got into the circle of this whole -- >> the biggest problem here is that it's over the counter. no one is looking at this. if i decide i want to put

someone on a form of speed, i'm watching carefully. i don't like doing that. i like the lifestyle we talk about. but if i do it, i'm monitoring it. people have gotten into trouble with green tea extract. we've had dr. oz on fox and friends many times. he's very informed and usually excellent at articulating things. >> let me just say one thing, there is no magic pill. there is no magic secret. these are only -- even if they work, they would be short term. short of exercise, diet, you cannot be lazy about this. >> you got to exercise, diet. no more -- >> exercise is a magic pill. >> watch what you eat. if you >> we've said it for years. >> we've talked about it. you know what happens, your hunger goes down. start exercising first thing in the morning.

the bike, walking, running, first thing in the morning. >> he got involved in a little bit of hollywood and he should have stopped. that comes with this kind of tv stuff. as a doctor, you're responsible to really be honest, do the good research. and i've said it many times, if something doesn't work, i will tell you right out there. that's the beauty of "sunday housecall." i think marc agrees with that. >> we have to do both sides of it and be fair and balanced. >> we're not saying dr. oz is a witch doctor or something. >> no, most of the time -- >> what is that less what -- >> more leptin. >> i know it can be a scary sight. have you ever had blood in your urine? what does it mean? it's our should i worry segment today. what it means if you find blood in your urine. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of.

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kidney, bladder. that's what we look at. it could be some sort of kidney infection or a bladder infection, both in men and women. or it could be a kidney stone or bladder stone. as a cancer doctor that i worry about, it's either kidney cancer or bladder bladder. of course you want to know that because then we can crean it up. for kidney stone, what we use to find out. noncontrast cat scan, to find out if there's a kidney stone. we need to go through the gamut of urine tests and x-rays. a lot of times it may be nothing. it could be just from vigorous exercise you may see this. >> when you go see -- when you're a patient, as part of the blood, urine samples, they test

for blood? >> this is exactly what i was going to get to first, eric. that an internist should be checking urine, not only blood on everyone. we often forget that. we should not forget that. if there's blood in the urine, what do i do about it? >> he calls me. >> well, i may. here's when i call him, here's when i don't. if it's vigorous exercise and it goes away, i might not call him. if it's a bladder infection and i can clear it with antibiotics, and i prove to myself over months that it ain't coming back, i might not call him. if you ate beets the night before and turns your urine red and i check it and i don't find red blood cells in it, i might not call him. but if it persists, i worry about kidney stones, kidney, bladder cancer, anything that persists in medicine that you're not used to seeing, you start calling in specialists like david here. >> what about cranberry juice? >> that's for urinary infection. cranberry juice does actually

help urinary infection. >> does it keep it at bay if you regularly drink it? >> a lot of fluids to wash out the system. it's not like antibiotics, not the same thing, but some studies have shown some effect. >> cranberry, you know, again, it's one of those things that there's no major science behind this. it's more of like a diuretic, we give it to the patient to wash out any kind of gravel or anything like that. let me say one other thing. in men, we see also blood in the urine. that could be because of the enlarged prostate. a lot of times as we get older, the prostate can get larger, and the bladder has to work harder and you'll have blood. that's why men get bladder stones, because they don't empty their urine, and the urine can stay there and become a bladder stone. >> women can sometimes feel a urinary tract infection coming on, and they drink more fluid, cranberry juice, diuretics can prevent it from actual hi happening.

>> what about aspirin? >> if you have aspirin or coumadin, you start seeing blood in your urine, you could say it's the aspirin or coumadin. but again, you can't say it's only the aspirin. >> no matter what you got, or afraid you're going to get, they cover it. if you have questions for your doctors, e-mail them now housecall@foxnews.com. and they'll answer some of those on the air. don't worry, all e-mail addresses and names will be kept confidential. and the best part, they won't send you a bill. >> they help clean your system, they cleanse you they say. but are those so-called detox programs all they're cracked up to be? we kind of touched on that. and do some remedies work better than others? we'll ask the doctors and talk more about that coming up next. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here!

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are living in areas of high pollution if give them broccoli sprouts and tested the urine and they produceed more carcinogens. they were getting rid of the bad stuff. when you talk about dex -- detox i think of drinks more water, getting massage, drinking more tea and coffee, pruett and vegetables, eating right, exercising a lot, sweating, maybe going for one of the massages with the herbal scrubs but that is it. if you overdo this, not the broccoli, you end up with the liquid diets or fad diets and upset what is going on in your colin. it is not good. >> i don't know where he gets a massage in china but this is about 50 miles from shanghai.

the pollution is horrendous. what i like is there is science behind it. it was published in the clinical cancer prevention and they looked at 300 patients and some took this broccoli sprout and some didn't. what they found after they checked the urine and blood they found out there 60 percent more benzene and also 23 percent excretion of ackalynine. there is truth to this detox and a last detox you read you have to be careful. you have to fast and you have to go on the fruit juice and vegetable juice for many days the you will go through a lot of roller coaster highs with blood sugar and you will lose at the beginning and gain it after. this, i think, there is truth to it. >> sugar is a terrible to in.

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