samadi, it is fascinating.o they do it, over the telephone. >> you notice how i got all the subjects with the technology. michael j. fox made the disease very popular in the media. parkinson's disease is the most common degenerative disease, of the central nervous system and everyone knows it as the tremor they have when they sit still and when they walk it gets better and it usually starts on one side of the body and overtime causes rigidity and they have a stooped posture and guess what? it affect their voice and they have a soft spoken and monotonous kind of voice and they are coming up with a computer software, the way you speak to your... they have a data bank, the computer can decide whether you have parkinson's or not. so it is amazing, you can actually call in through remote without going to a doctor, call and speak for three minutes and the computer says you have early parkinson's or not. why is it important? most of the diagnosis today is clinical. we look at the patient and their symptoms, but, now w

samadi who has the treatment, and we are e.r. doctors but we have to get the surgeons in and, there is tear gas exposure as well and they have to clear it off of their skin and wash their eyes and get the clothing off. >> eric: they are professionals and our hats off to the emergency crews. >> jamie: we are hearing the recovery for some could be permanent. more medical news, though, we are following for you. the fda approving a new weight loss drug called qsymia. the second diet pill approved in less than a month. two weeks ago a drug was approved for the same purpose. do the drugs work and what are the risks? dr. siegel, mental there helepa you will tell us diet an exercise but for other people, do these work. >> i will tell people, diet and lifestyle change... >> jamie: i knew it. >> people with diabetes and risk of stroke and heart disease, a lot of the reason is there is obesity, 1 out of 3 adults in the united states, already obese. we have to do something and i'm already describing a drug, federman, part of qsymia and i use

samadi, how do guys and women, how do us guys do with stress more effectively? >> we have had the discussion before and you always wanted to know what does stress do to our bodies? all the things that you mentioned are really the external forces, that affect our body. how do we fight this and there is a defense mechanism we have spoken about in the past and how do you maker body stronger? and, sleep, for example, is one over those things, because all of the repair in the body happens while you sleep and taking antioxidant and clearing free radicals are the way you defend against stress. now, having said that, the stress affects your entire body, and affects your hormones, and, some of the hormones you have talked about between, you know, fight or flee, epinephrines where it makes your hands sweat and heart rate goes up, it affects heart disease and your heart rate will go up and your cortisone level goes up and breaks down your immune system and the first thing is recognize that you are stressed out. that is the first thing and denying it is a big problem and fi

david samadi. the first topic, fallout over guidelines urging pediatricians to test all children for their cholesterol, regardless of weight or family history and medical experts are raising questions about that. should you test your child or not? dr. siegel? >> well, let me wade into it this way, 10% of kids hoof high cholesterol and 1/3 are overweight or obese and studies over the past few years have shown they are building up fatty streaks in their arteries, feeding the heart beginning at very, very young ages and there was another study that showed that overweight kids with high cholesterol build up plaque in their carotid arteries and this is a huge problem and i think knowledge is power but, you know, guidelines make me nervous. the war back and forth about when it should be done and to whom is really the question. i think any overweight child, any child with a family history of high cholesterol, any child that we think could have a risk factor for high cholesterol, should be checked at a ver

david samadi, the vice chairman of the department of urology, and chief of robotic at the mount si myical center. >> and associate professor of medicine at the nyu langone's medical center and, is author of the inner pulse, unlocking the secret code of sickness and health. dr. marc siegel. doctors, good morning. >> jamie: great to see you. >> eric: our thoughts and prayers are with all of those in aurora, colorado with the residents and victims' families and i'm sure i speak for everyone across the country and the doctors are weighing in on the aftermath of the horrible shootings. as medical teams cared for the dozens of victims at hospitals across the denver area. how do hospitals and medical centers react to these type of emergency situations? and what kind of treatment they're victims now receiving? dr. samadi, it must be a huge challenge to the medal establishment. >> it is, eric and what happens, is, life is going normal in the hospital, tuntil you get the level-one trauma call, before becoming a urologist i did two years of general surgery and the trauma and i have some experien

samadi and i have.frankly, i don't want to brag, but i look carefully at the drugs i prescribe and decide what their uses are and sometimes they are off-label but i look at the basic research on the drug and i don't rely on drug company information and you want your doctor to do that. your doctor should do independent reading and independent research before they decide what they will do and shouldn't rely on drug companies. >> eric: so go to your doctor tomorrow and they prescribe something, what do you say. >> that is the question, no one is a better doctor for you, eric than yourself. you have to take care of yourself and because you get a prescription you have to ask them, what is this and what are the side effects? does it have interaction with other medications? it is a serious business, paxil is anti-depressant for adults and promote it for kids and wellbutrin is another anti-depressant and they use it for treatment of obesity, and erectile dysfunction and they have the other one, avandia, for dia

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samadi, what is it about. >> it is very very, handy. lot of patients out there with airway obstructions and may have asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia or like, in the field of trauma, you may have a real obstruction and what is the first rule of medicine, eric, get acceo

samadi, good to see you. >> jamie: good morning, i'm particularly excited about the first topic you broughtecause so many people know one who has alzheimer's, they really love and care about and for the first time, researchers discovered a gene that may actually protect folks against the degenerative brain disease. dr. siegel, this is exciting, isn't it? >> its so important because we thought for a long time, a protein, beta amyloid which builds in the brain of

david samadi.he first topic, fallout over guidelines urging pediatricians to test all children for their cholesterol, regardless of weight or family history and medical experts are raising questions about that. should you test your child or not? dr. siegel? >> well, let me wade into it this way, 10% of kids hoof high cholesterol and 1/3 are overweight or obese and studies over the past few years have shown they are building up fatty streaks in their arteries, feeding the heart beginning at very, very young ages and there was another study that showed that overweight kids with high cholesterol build up plaque in their carotid arteries and this is a huge problem and i think knowledge is power but, you know, guidelines make me nervous. the war back and forth about when it should be done and to whom is really the question. i think any overweight child, any child with a family history of high cholesterol, any child that we think could have a risk factor for high cholesterol, should be checked at a very