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Trayvon martin case. george zimmermans father kwepbd dollars -- defended his sons claims he act self-defense. both robert and his son george are still in hiding. they fear for their lives because they have had death threats. so robert did not reveal his face during this interview that they did last night on hannity. watch: >> when the dispatcher said we no longer need to you do that, and george acknowledged okay, he no longer knew where trayvon was. so he continued walking down the sidewalk, dir...

How much is too much. a new debate day over what doctors are calling unnecessary testing and treatment. want to debate that. dr. marc siegel, fox news medical a-teamer and dr. robert osfeld a cardiologist in new york city. doctor, good morning to you as well. heres what happened. a group led by the american board of internal medical foundation and "consumer reports." a lot of medical advice from a lot of different areas. theyre saying cardiac stress tests not necessarily needed. chest x-ray befo...

Patient and their doctors and very important decisions they would make. if you look, if you scratch down into some of the delays tails of this -- details of this recommendation, as a cardiologist theyre recommending not to perform routine stress tests on asymptomatic patients. that is a very sound, risk based recommendation. getting down to the question of malpractice reform, clearly that is a very important issue. i feel that patients perhaps may be more likely to do their physician for not obt...