new steady suggests doctors are too quick to use costly methods for artery disease, calling one out of eight procedures unnecessary. drsm manny alvarez, senior managing editor of fox news health.com and member of the fox news medical a team. trying to reduce the budget! look, this is a very important study because it s clearly showing that in the medical profession, there is overutilization of a lot of very expensive technology, angioplasty, we re doing about 600,000 of these procedures a year, $20,000 a pop, you re talking about a lot of dollars, and clearly, this published report by the journal of the american medical association, brought by one of the leading cardiology groups in the country, is showing you that in about one in eight cases, probably 13 percent of the cases is not necessary. now, why is this happening? well, multifactorial, as i say. the industry needs better regulation, better tightening, because there s
definitely. jon: jonathan serrie, thank you. jenna: a medical breakthrough, raising some ethical questions as well, it involves cutting edge blood test that could predict how long you live by measuring how fast your dna is aging. again, this could be just available to you and i, just to do on a monday afternoon. manny alvarez is senior managing editor of fox news health.com. might as well get your nails done? look, this test is a biological test, it measures the telemeters, the end part of the cells as it divides, and basically, we know in biology that the shorter the telemeter, the shorter the life span of the cell, the longer the telemeter, the longer the life span of the cell, and this is talking about aging, and it can predict more or less how long you re going live. jenna: is it accurate? it is very accurate but it has no practical use in medicine. jenna: what if you want to
the cell phone could be problematic down the line. jenna: so use something one of those microphones, blue tooth devices? people are addicted all over the world to cell phones. use cell phones when necessary. using something that keeps the phone away from your head. you should pay attention to small children. give a cell phone to 10-year-old, by the time they get to be 30 that a lot of energy going to the cells. so you ve got to be careful. jenna: keep your phone calls short. short. drink coffee, milk. hang up. that s it. jenna: dr. manny, certainly more on fox news health.com. appreciate it. gregg? gregg: four innocent americans murdered on the high seas by pirates. so should we start treating them like terrorist
gregg: childhood obesity, it is a growing epidemic in the u.s., and now a new study suggests how you start an infant on solid foods could effect that child s obesity risk. let s bring in our fox news medical a-team, dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor of fox news health.com. so we re reading this thing, and it says, basically, there s a four month cutoff? reporter: you re going to get a lot of hate mail from this. gregg: i am? reporter: you are. a lot of parents start feeding their kids very early, and what this study showed, basically, if you stop if you start giving solid foods at thege of four months, there is a strong likelihood, strong likelihood that when you look at the child at the age of 3, 4 and 5, maybe they are going to be overweight. so the message to me
equipment and radiation. let s bring in dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor of fox news health.com. radiation, radiation, radiation, the buzz word of the week for everybody, for the love of god. [laughter] look, in dental practices, for sure, there is a trend lately of overutilization of x-rays. there s new technology like the 3-d x-ray machines that a lot of orthodontists are using and, of course, kids are going to the dental office, which is good. the big question is whether these technologies are exposing children to excessive radiation, whether these technologies at the end of the day are beneficial. jenna: what do you think? well, i think in some cases, yes jenna: yes, it s beneficial? yes, it s beneficial, yes, it s necessary, yes, the technology is good. but at the same time i do agree that a lot of dentists because this is not an industry that s regulated, you know? when you buy a piece of equipment, there s a lot of promotion from the manufacturers to buy it and