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dr. richard besser is abc news' chief medical correspondent. i'll ask him how close we are to curing chronic stephanapolous. deadly giant snails have been found in houston. quick, saunter for your lives. this is the colbert report. ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! tephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i've got to tell you, this, this, ladies and gentlemen, tonight right now these people in this room, i don't know where to begin. i don't know where to begin on how to thank these people. tonight the people in this room are not just an audience. please, please, sit down. sit down. i almost can't control them. they're not an audience. they're a movement. and folks, thank you for that opening because i've got to tell you tonight i am angry. and for once that doesn't make me happy. and i think you know why. >> the scandal-tainted former south carolina governor mark sanford won back his old seat in congress tuesd
dr. richard besser is abc news' chief medical correspondent. i'll ask him how close we are to curing chronic stephanapolous. deadly giant snails have been found in houston. quick, saunter for your lives. this is the colbert report. ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to the report. good to have you with us. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! tephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i've got to tell you, this, this, ladies...
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dr. richard besser. >> reporter: a medical mystery.spiratory virus known as mers. 49 have been sickened. 27, more than half, have died. no cure. no vaccine. the symptoms come on like the flu, fever, chills, muscle aches and then get rapidly more serious. breathing becomes difficult. so far every person with mers has traveled from the middle east or caught it from someone did, but the fear is it could take off like sars, the deadly virus that went global ten years ago. one case of sars in a hong kong hotel in 2003 infected 12 other hotel guests who flew out of hong kong. within 9 months, there were more than 8,000 cases over the world. more than 7,000 died. now i'm ready to work. to keep the new virus from taking off, the only line of defense is containment in special wards like this one i saw in hong kong. this is pretty incredible. a futuristic isolation ward where everything is engineered to keep a virus from spreading. we can only hope it works. dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. >>> well, here's a jarring wake-up call for anyo
dr. richard besser. >> reporter: a medical mystery.spiratory virus known as mers. 49 have been sickened. 27, more than half, have died. no cure. no vaccine. the symptoms come on like the flu, fever, chills, muscle aches and then get rapidly more serious. breathing becomes difficult. so far every person with mers has traveled from the middle east or caught it from someone did, but the fear is it could take off like sars, the deadly virus that went global ten years ago. one case of sars in...
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dr. richard besser. >> rer a medical mystery, a respiratory virus known as mers. 49 have been sickened, and no vaccine. the symptoms come on like the flu -- fever, chills, muscle aches -- and then get rapidly more serious. breathing becomes difficult. so far every person with mers has either traveled to the middle or caught it from the fear is it could take off. liksars, the deadly respiratory virus that went sa hotel in 2003 infected 12 other hotel guests who flew out of hong kong. within ni months, there were the worldo core di >> now i'm ready to work. >> reporter: to keep the new virus from taking off, the only line of defense is containment. in special wards like this one i saw in hong kong. >> this is pretty incredible. >> reporter: a futuristic isolation ward where everything is engineered to keep a virus from spreading. we can only hope it works. dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. >>> sev passeng in a minivan w kle las night truxton between syracuse and binghamton. unhitched from its cab. it crossed a median and then phey looking into whether severhunde a state footba coach joe
dr. richard besser. >> rer a medical mystery, a respiratory virus known as mers. 49 have been sickened, and no vaccine. the symptoms come on like the flu -- fever, chills, muscle aches -- and then get rapidly more serious. breathing becomes difficult. so far every person with mers has either traveled to the middle or caught it from the fear is it could take off. liksars, the deadly respiratory virus that went sa hotel in 2003 infected 12 other hotel guests who flew out of hong kong....
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dr. richard besser is here. ll me the truth, doctor." you want to get it. we're going to play a game here. and the audience are going to try to answer the questions. first up, is the question -- cue the music. >> i love that. >> is it worth the price you pay -- you get what you pay for when it comes to sunscreens? true or false? yes or no? >> the real answer is no. yeah. "consumer reports" did a study. they found that the target and the walmart brand were the best and the cheapest. >> spf lower than 15. is there any point to sunscreen lower than spf 15? yes or no? half and half. he was emphatic. >> he's correct. anything below 15 -- there we go. anything below 15 has to have a warning label now to say it does not protect you from cancer. that's the change. anything above 15 doesn't provide additional protection. between 15 and 50 is the way to go. >> a couple more questions to go. i wonder about this. is there any truth to a water-proof sunscreen? can it really be water-proof? yes or no? half and half. >> i see l
dr. richard besser is here. ll me the truth, doctor." you want to get it. we're going to play a game here. and the audience are going to try to answer the questions. first up, is the question -- cue the music. >> i love that. >> is it worth the price you pay -- you get what you pay for when it comes to sunscreens? true or false? yes or no? >> the real answer is no. yeah. "consumer reports" did a study. they found that the target and the walmart brand were the...
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dr. richard besser has the story. >> reporter: after more than 40 years on the market, the fda says it iswing triclosan, a popular antibacterial chemical found in everything from soap to body washes, to toothpaste, could be doing you more harm than good. it comes amid growing questions from scientists and consumer groups about the safety of the chemical. after recent animal studies suggested triclosan could increase the risk of hormone problems such as infertility or early puberty. the soap and detergent industry called those overblown. >> the fact is triclosan is safe has an extensive track record, human health and environmental safety. >> reporter: while the fda says animal studies, quote, don't always predict effects in humans, this morning some consumer advocates are questioning why triclosan is still being used. especially because the fda says it has no evidence soaps made with triclosan, quote, provide any benefit over washing with regular soap and water. >> richard, cut through the debate for us. >> i'm concerned whenever we're exposed to a chemical where there's no proven benefit.
dr. richard besser has the story. >> reporter: after more than 40 years on the market, the fda says it iswing triclosan, a popular antibacterial chemical found in everything from soap to body washes, to toothpaste, could be doing you more harm than good. it comes amid growing questions from scientists and consumer groups about the safety of the chemical. after recent animal studies suggested triclosan could increase the risk of hormone problems such as infertility or early puberty. the...
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dr. richard besser is here to tell us about it apparently using cameras. >> this is really incredible. for coupling struggling with fertility test tube babies, in vitro fertilization is the way to go. success rate not high, 42% for women under 35. using simple photography in england looking to try to pick out which of these developing embryos are the healthiest they were able to raise that to 61% which is a dramatic increase. >> that is. although you say it is a small study, ivf can be very expensive, though, for families. this could encourage more families to try it. >> well, you know, i hope instead of encouraging more to try it, it helps couples -- there's an incredible emotional toll when you go through a round of in vitro fertilization and to not result in a healthy baby, here if you're still selecting the couples who are right for this, but you're raising their rates this much higher, i mean, in terms of cost and just that family, it's a dramatic improvement. >> so this could -- this new development if it's replicated could be huge. >> i think it could be huge but it does need to
dr. richard besser is here to tell us about it apparently using cameras. >> this is really incredible. for coupling struggling with fertility test tube babies, in vitro fertilization is the way to go. success rate not high, 42% for women under 35. using simple photography in england looking to try to pick out which of these developing embryos are the healthiest they were able to raise that to 61% which is a dramatic increase. >> that is. although you say it is a small study, ivf can...