cancer research center. we re also working with a doctor who is the lead on this from the chemical census institute and dr. charley johns son from penn physics. all of us together are working to see if we can figure out the best way to identify a scent, an odor that can help us, predict who already has cancer, even before this sort of standard screening test would be useful. jon: we have some video now of dogs and women obviously in a training session. but as i understand it, you wouldn t actually have potential cancer patients in their doctor s office with your lab bro door, labrador, would you? oh, no. we do all of this in a laboratory setting. what we re doing is collecting some of the cancer samples from patients as a result of our collaboration with dr. tani. then we re collecting blood samples as well. so we re training the dogs
on that and what they will be doing in our study initially will be identifying blood samples from patients with cancer versus patients that don t have cancer, patients that have other diseases that aren t cancer. so that s really the goal. jon: it is my understanding you re going to be targeting especially ovarian cancer which is typically pretty hard to detect. the dogs would be able to do it when machines, blood tests, that kind of thing would not? i think what happens there isn t a early screening test for cancer. so what we re trying to do is have the dogs help us identify what that specific odor signature is. then we ll go to those machines and see if they can t match up what that is. we know doctors are more sensitive than most machines. and because they re thinking about this and putting things together, they can pick out odors among a lot of other contaminants. so if they can help us figure out what the machines eventually will then lock in on we can work together and
medicine says there are 135 medical procedures that physicians claim are almost always unnecessary and could do more harm than good. which tests are being overused? let s talk to dr. mark siegle. he s a member of our fox news medical a team of the good morning to you. good morning, steve. steve: this is important stuff because you go to the doctor and you figure he knows what tests to order, but sometimes they go crazy. steve, listen, we actually order twice as many tests as most other countries. our health care cost in this country are almost twice what they are in most other industrialized countries. i ll tell you why. i had a couple come to me this past week saying scan everything. i want the whole body scanned. i want to make sure i don t have cancer. sounds reasonable, right? except that that kind of testing is what americans do wrong. they say, we want it all. we want to know. it s expensive, it doesn t always give you the right antiyou worry unnecessarily. that s what we h
the other day saying i want a pet scan of my entire body so i know i don t have cancer. that may sound great. do you have any idea what that costs? thousands of dollars. if patients don t pay for it, they don t care. bill: going to all the cost here now. what are we going to do about that? what happens? well i think that if we don t do it this way we re going to be faced with more and more regulations, more and more bureaucracy and less choices for either the physician or the patient. less choices mean unhappy doctors and unhappy patients. we have got to amend this law and get it to include more payment out-of-pocket. bill: i have a feeling we ll be debating this law for the next several decades. read more about it at foxnews.com. dr. marc siegel s piece is online. great to see you. bill: thank you, doc. here is martha. martha: stuff to think about here. back to the ship of horrors. she was crying and stuff. said they have no power. they have no running water. they have no way to
for alcohol has done, we spend ten in our emergency rooms, in drunk driving accidents and in domestic violence. craig, i just don t think this is something that s smart, and i think we ought to reverse course, frankly. you launched project sam in denver next week. colorado, one of the places that s chosen to legalize the drug. why start the fight there? it was ground zero because we were focused after we woke up after election day and saw colorado had legalized it and washington state had, and 18 had done medical marijuana, but in oregon where there s medical marijuana, kids can get a license. in california, those who are applying for licenses, 90% don t have cancer, don t have ms, don t have any of the things you and i would associate needing medical marijuana, and by the way, craig, when do we have to smoke it in order to get the benefits of the thc? like, do we call people to smoke