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The streets in northeastern syria. its time now for a sunday house call. with us as always is sunday house call host dr. isadore rosenfeld, the professor of clinical medicine and every sunday he gives us great medical advice. good to see you, as always. >> jamie: good morning, doctor. >> thank you, good morning. >> eric: theres some really interesting medical information this week about men and psas and prostate cancer. a government panel now advises that healthy men, get this, should no longer ...

expected. well tell you why, what we can learn. first, the federal agency that told millions of women to delay getting mammograms is starting another tough argument. the u.s. preventive services task force now says most men should not bother with screening for prostate cancer. they say the psa test does more harm potentially than good. that it barely reduces death and leads to unnecessary treatment and complications. theres already pushback. the head of the prostate cancer foundation...

task force says most men should not bother with screening for prostate cancer. they say the psa test does more harm potentially than good, that it barely reduces deaths and leads to a lot of unnecessary treatment and complications. now will is already some pushback. for example, the head of the prostate cancer foundation, a patient group, calls the new recommendation "a terrible mistake." the american neurological association says they are still working on their response. to help me so...

Recommending against the psa test for prostate cancer, saying that blood test does not work and can actually do a lot more harm than good. that said, the american cancer society reports one of every six men will get prostate cancer in his live time and that it will kill close to 35,000 men this year alone. so the question now is, if the psa screening, the blood screening wont work, what will? trace gallagher with this. a high psa level doesnt mean you have prostate levels, never has. >> could be...

Take the test and figure out what to do? explain it. >>trace: well, they are saying, you can still get the bros state test, the psa test, if you want and you request it. but the recommendation is the doctors did not bring it up in the first place but if you are a man and you are showing symptoms of prostate cancer you would get the test. look at the numbers. 240,000 people each year are diagnosed with press state cancer and 33,000 will die from it. look at pancreatic cancer, the difference, stev...

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defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up i...

he says it will make a huge difference for americans who are suffering and will cut tacks, but hes warning lawmakers who oppose it theyll answer to him and the voters. >> the question then is will congress do something? if congress does something, i cant run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then its not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town. >> lets go to brianna keilar. the president acknowledged that america...

Bottom line ive known men who died from prostate cancer because they didnt take more aggressive approach. >> you know, prostate cancer is is a silent killer, because there are no symptomses easy to say watch and wait. the truth is one of the way that surgical removal when you remove the prostate you really know how much cancer you have and you know its removed and other thing is, psa test after surgery has to be zero and undetectible and i like it because its a peace of mind for the families and...

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