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Medical Rewind

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Medical Rewind

Published: Sat, 14 Nov 2009

Description: Dr. Manny recaps week's top health stories

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" Then it's time now for medical -- first up staggering numbers on swine flu just released from the Centers for Disease Control since April 22 million Americans have gotten sickened nearly. 4000. Have died from H one and."

" Sony is spreading to fast here now is Dr. Manny Alvarez Fox News senior medical contributor and managing health. Editor of foxnews.com. -- good morning guys what's the status of swine flu today as we sit here this morning well."

" Saddam once flew for the season -- you that would not even seen the seasonal flu like cases anymore we've seen the H1N1. It's we tell -- the beginning it was this very infectious a lot of people are getting him. The good thing is that it this fast eating doesn't give you severe symptoms in a lot of cases. But the other the negative thing -- of course that it does has is that it really is is being picked on by by by small children pregnant women. Older Americans are not seen a severe effect of VH one and one I know the two of us were searching for the vaccine for our kids as well as many millions of Americans couldn't find it are we making progress on getting the vaccine that. I think we are we making huge progress. You know on a couple of weeks ago left a couple weeks pass we couldn't find -- distribution channel was old broken. Because this distribution channels being handled by the federal government but I can get when you you know you seem more more H1N1 vaccine arena. In different places myself you know we got the whole batch of last week so that's -- we have just."

" I accidentally lets move on to this fascinating article that appeared in the New York Times yesterday about a possible basically a cure for cancer that there are drugs currently on the market they are affordable drugs yes that if people took them now would cut their risk for prostate cancer. And breast cancer -- of you know -- the deadly most relevant once. In half why aren't more people taking these drugs."

" Public relations in marketing basically that's what it boils down to a legal. There's so they're sort of food and pharmaceutical products that really make a difference when it comes to cancer special prostate breast cancer. But people tend to think that the non pharmaceutical products he's seen the Internet have more popular alternative alternative therapies and have a great campaigns on this thing vaunted U of vitamin. That is gonna reduce my cancer by -- percentile. None of those none of that works you know even if you look at diet and exercise. In certain cases it does work -- overrule. It really doesn't work you know you you will -- obesity and breast cancer. It on the dollar was obese when she was very young. -- you know got into the natural. The cycle very early on machine names -- better chance to develop breast cancer but cancer these drugs just need a better pay your hands they don't have sexy thing trumka problem our home all right another fascinating said he came out earlier this week. And it told us that babies can actually read it. Anger read fear on her face is before they can talk before children certainly cancer. Say what does this tell us how Akamai and all of this is endorsing it tells you how do you know how a child can really tell the difference specific differences. In the facial expressions and what the emotion of the person it's. We tend to lose that as we get older. So -- its interest in analysis why in babies. How do we lose it. It's is that part of the resurgence that we will lose the ability to read emotions along with the exception of let's say of the yield multimillion. Dollar -- Players I brought cigarettes I'd love -- you -- but most people lose that ability and at this point out to some of the mechanics that perhaps could help us. -- with some you know future resurgence of -- how white children do it. What other mechanisms that they utilized to early on and then. I think -- facial expressions are very important but they can tell the difference is subtle differences we have a lot laughable it is -- document don't. Don't have a bad idea that it's kind of very tiny group that what are you suggesting that you've got your angry to see you."

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