david samadi, chief of robotic surgery at lennox hospital. doctors, welcome. great to have you here. there was a new warning that come out from the american heart association this weekend. a lot of people are now confused. what it said was that women are actually at higher risk of having a stroke tha men. so doctor siegal, why would that be true? and is it? >> i want women out there to listen carefully to this. this is extremely important. this is the american heart association and the american stroke association. and the reason is that women get strokes more than 50% of people who get strokes are women. more men get them than women. it's the number three cause of death among women. number four cause among men. so why women? specific reasons. women when pregnant are at higher risks of stroke, especially with flood pressure. if you are on birth control pills, it will increase your risk. if you go on birth control pills, get your blood pressure checked first because blood pressure and birth control, bad combination. if you are a high blood pressure and on birth

david samadi, chief of robotic surgery at lennox hospital. doctors, welcome.o have you here. there was a new warning that come out from the american heart association this weekend. a lot of people are now

david samadi and chief of robotic surgery there. >> dr. marc siegel joins us, as well.r code of sickness and health." great to have both of you here. >> we begin with the report, have you heard athis, shocking announcement from tom brokaw. he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma an incurable cancer

david samadi and chief of robotic surgery there. >> dr. marc siegel joins us, as well. "unlocking the inner code of sickness and health." great to have both of you here. >> we begin with the report, have you heard athis, shocking announcement from tom brokaw. he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma an incurable cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow. dr. samadi, what is it and how do you diagnose it? >> about 1% of our cancers are multiple myeloma and 10,000 people die from this. it starts from bone marrow. a lot of people don't know what bone marrow is. a soft part in the middle of the bone and i think the simple way to understand it, think of of it as a federal reserve bank. in the bank you have a lot of different currencies. you have yen and euro and when you start printing out a lot of dollar, what happens is the value of the other one the other currencies go down. that's exactly what happens in the bone marrow. you start producing a lot of plasma cells. these are cells that are supposed to make these soldiers to defend us, but they're going out of sync

david samadi is chairman of urologies at lennox hill hospital.ed to women, specific risks women may face. what stands out to you about these guidelines? >> i've always said that you can't treat even the same way, and there are things about men that are completely different than women -- jenna: we know that'she case, don't we, doctor? >> exactly right. the way we treat cancer, for example, we've done a great job, and the numbers are coming down, which is great. when it comes to heart disease -- i'm happy that you're wearing the red color, it's a big awareness. we've done a good job. but when it comes to voc, we're lagging -- stroke, we're lagging behind. this is the third leading cause of death among women, and we're focusing on the risk factors. pregnancy is a big risk factor. we're finding out about birth control pills that can increase the risk of, you know, clotting and stroke and other things. so the american heart association what their doing is saying, look, stay focused, take care of your blood pressure. quit smoking. if you are a smoker,

david samadi. we have another member here, dr. siegel with us. and to explain why this is happening and why in the caribbean, doctor. >> the new david samadi robotic institute comes at a time when medical tourism sin creasingly popular. close to a million americans per year already seek health care outside of the u.s. the caribbean is the new hot spot, known for high quality, increasingly low-cost procedures. in some cases patients can save up to 75% of what they would pay here in the states. of course you can't beat the beautiful surroundings. the dominican republic has long been a tourist destination for inexpensive plastic surgery, dental procedures. you can add to that the state-of-the-art da vinci robot which is like an avatar where the surgeon uses precision robotic arms to perform dell democrat procedures. >> going to change the lives of many, many people out there and to be part of the first robotic institute in the caribbean is a huge blessing and for the humanitarian part, it is a greatest step and for us to be part of this, we're very

david samadi about whether the labels would help consumers make healthy choices.rted missing in texas after traveling the world. where the police found the body they believe to be that of leanne bearden. >> >> california in the grip of a record-setting drought, preparing for a visit to the president. the lack of water there is affecting people all across the country. jon: a tragic development in a case we've been telling you a lot about. a colorado woman reported missing in texas nearly a month ago. police now believe they have found leanne bearden's body. casey stiegel live in dallas with that. >> reporter: jon, there are a couple of interesting twists here. let's bring you up to speed. the 33-year-old vanished back on january the 17th after she went on a walk not far from her in-law as home in san antonio suburb of garden ridge, texas. leanne bearden had just returned home to the states. she had been crisscrossing the world for the last 22 months with her husband and chronicling their adventures in a blog. yesterday afternoon a man down there called police and s