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Needs further exploration with an ultrasound or mammogram, the ideal way i biopsy, the needle biopsy. several reasons we prefer to do the biopsy that way. one, most biopsies result in benign findings therefore the patient never needs to go on to surgery. if there is a cancer diagnosis we prefer to know about it before going to the operating room. and that way we can actually plan the surgery more effect live i and hopefully that patient would need one surgery rather than two or more. >> and the ...

It has the possibility of dramatically increasing a patients odds of survival. >> if you had any problems with chest discomfort... >> reporter: elizabeth is a heart attack survivor. >> passed out at home, and they took me right in... >> reporter: according to the national institutes of health, roughly 1 million americans have heart attacks every year, and, only a little more than half survive. >> once an artery closes you have 45 minutes before the muscle tissue is irreversibly damaged. >> repor...

Doctors say they are getting closer to doing just that with the help of a device called the angel med guardian. it looks and works like a pager. small chip about the size of a silver dollar implanted into the patients chest and constantly monitors their ticker. the moment an abnormality is detected the chip vibrates in the chest will an external pager beeps and flashes. this can happen before a patient knows they are about to have a heart attack. if they get to the hospital in time, doctors coul...

It detects the early warning signs of cardiac arrest. its a pager, folks. casey stegall live in arizona with more. hi, casey. >> just like the pagers everybody used to carry before cell phones, coronary heart disease, we hear this all the time, it is the single leading cause of death in this country. according to the national institutes of health, about 1 million americans have heart attacks every single year and the survival rates are only a little more than half of those patients. so what if y...

Casey stegall live with more details about this. >> sounds like something you would see out of a movie but it is reality across the country. first of all, coronary heart disease the single leading cause of death in this country. the national institutes of health says that roughly one million americans have heart attacks every single year and just a little more than 50% of them actually survive. so, what if doctors could actually previctories when an attack could happen? they say they are getting...

Normal test you wont go on to develop alzheimers. the test is predictive in the sense if you have the abnormality, you are likely to develop alzheimers. you are not cleared necessarily the test comes back normal or negative. so to speak. >> all right. it is a tough thing because as we know, there are no that many medications out there for people to take. >> this is one of the things in medicine. now you have a better idea of how these proteins accumulate and you know they are making their way in...

Senators and their concerns as well as the overall trend line and what kind of expectation we have. >> theres really a shift in our experience that we havent really focused on enough. if you look back from 1896 to 1894, that was 58 years, for 50 of those 58 years, one party or the other simultaneously controlled both chambers of congress and the white house. the default position of the american electorate was to give one party unified control. since 1968 as you noted in these last 42 years, as b...

The senate, were all that he cared about. he decided not to take the oath of office. he said then delaware can get another senator, but my boys cant get another father. >> that was vice president joe bidens son beau at the democratic national convention as he recalled surviving the car crash that killed his mother when he was a child. tonight he is fighting a new battle. what doctors say was a mild stroke. what could have brought on a stroke at such a young age? he is just 41. joining is dr. phi...

Should stop the multivitamin in the last three months because there is evidence the multivitamin in the last three months of pregnancy can cause an abnormality and premature delivery and so on. but getting back to the breast cancer thing, my advice is this. we dont -- we are always looking for a quick fix. we dont eat properly so we take the multivitamin and figure that will do the job. my advice to you is i dont know which of these two studies is accurate but i do know that a well-balanced diet...

State and local taxes. today lindsay lohans feud with her father gets deeper. her latest twitter post reads, quote, pathological liar. a person who lies to the point of it being considered a disease or condition, an abnormality, habitual liar, equals my father. end quote. michael lohan showed up yaetd his daughters los angeles apartment to check on her and said he found her in a state of disarray. he says he is worried for lindsay and wants to legally take over her estate for her protection. ...