of strength and hope in their everyday battle with this deadly disease. it will be impossible to answer all your questions in this hour, so be sure to check fox news health.com for more information. we begin with melamoma, the diagnosis has doubled over the last 30 years. now, a remarkable treatment is saving lives. why it s taking so long just to get to this point. the difficulties associated with cancer have to do with the complex it of the disease. it made more complex that cancer is something of an organism itself. at the national cancer institute, deputy director is working to accelerate cancer research. i think at this juncture i see more promise, advances against the visa than i ve seen in the last 35 or so years.
second stimulus? we re going to tackle that question. and you are probably aware there s a few shark necessary washington, but maybe you weren t thinking about the swimming kind? where this killer was caught. you re not going to believe it. we re going to talk to the person who took that photograph. and hurricane earl is churning north. we have live pictures of southampton, new jersey, courtesy of our fox affiliate wnyw where the surf is kicking up and the state braces for earl s arrival. janice dean is track its every move and we re live up and down the east coast with the very latest, all new, next hour. jon: a lot of folks along the eastern seaboard are not taking chance, they are evacuating ahead of hurricane earl, but some say they will stay and ride out the storm. now, either way, you should be prepared and have a medical emergency kit on hand for hurricanes or for any disaster. so what do you need in that kit? dr. manwhy alvarez is managing editor for fox news
concern. this methane concern one of the unknown health risks from the oil spill. fox news health.com senior managing editor dr. manny alvarez collected it out for himself in grand isle, louisiana. hey, guys. i m here in louisiana. this is a beach that, of course, has been contaminated with oil. this is an area where a lot of workers are working around the clock to make the cleanup right behind the sand dunes here is what they call the hot zone. that s still you know, those are piles of sand contaminated with oil and, of course, this is you cannot go in there because of the possible toxic effects not only from the oil but all the chemicals they re using for the cleanup which is a main concern for many hospitals in the area. you can smell you can literally smell the oil and whatever toxic fumes in this air but the concerns from the citizens, of course, is not only the smell and the toxicity that they re getting from it but also, now we re very concerned about the workers. you
knowingly used contaminated materials to make the product. remember tylenol was pulled off the shelves, hundreds of batches of tylenol taken away? dr. manny alvarez, member of the fox medical a-team, managing editor of fox news health.com. lots of information but this is a big story and parents all over the country don t know, doc. what should they do? what they have to do is throw out the infant products, the form ulations, because clearly the fda this company knew in january these products had a prorks the manufacturing quality in its plant was not up to par in standards, some of the products had excessive amounts of the main ingredient, some of them had particles. so there were already fda warnings back in january to this company saying listen, something is afoot, there s about 40 something complaints of the quality of your products, do something about it. they didn t do anything about it. that s when the fda showed up on their door, sat down with them, they did a
the warnings about skin cancer and the sun, people are still hitting tanning salons, the numbers say it all, take a look, there are 25,000 indoor tanning businesses in this country, an average of a million people visit tanning salons every single day. the economic impact is pretty big, $5 billion industry. tanning can be deadly, though, of course. it raises the risk of melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, by 75 percent, and melanoma is now the most common form of cancer in people ages 25-2. a survey shows 58 percent of young people have suffered burns from the frequent use of tanning lamps, tanning beds. dr. manny alvarez is managing editor of fox news health.com, a medical a-teamer as we call him and on the phone, christie setzer, christie believes she was addicted to tanning. first to you, we re going to show you pictures of you in your wedding dress. you say you went to the tanning salon almost every single day for a year before your wedding?