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Of weight. so his body mass index is now over 30. that's why he is considered clinically obese. the cholesterol came down, you can see. but look at the very bottom line. the medication crestor as a statin drug for cholesterol. they quadrupled that dose. that's what brought his cholesterol down. what's concerning a little bit is ldl, which is the bad cholesterol, that should be lower. with this much of the statin medication, that should at least be below 100. but we'll see. we get an idea now the impact the year has had on the president despite the medication increase. >> didn't you point out, ...

The cholesterol came down, you can see. but look at the very bottom line. the medication crestor as a statin drug for cholesterol. they quadrupled that dose. the ldl should be lower. with this much of the statin medication, that should at least be below 100. but we'll see. we get an idea now the impact the year has had on the president despite the medication increase. >> didn't you point out, sanjay, that there was heart disease in the last report that wasn't indicated. so with these hdl, this ldl, that is his risk factor, right, for heart disease? >> so when you look at the lipids, the choles...

Was a placebo, they reported pain relief, and so explain that? >> right, rig right. and this is going back to the placebo effect concept here that we are talking about. this is one study, and we certainly need a lot more information and studies to be done, but it is certainly an important piece of information to add to the growing body of knowledge. it talks to the patient expectations. and again, one of the conclusions or one of the findings showed of the study that when the patients had positive expectations, not only did the medication increase in the effectiveness, but the placebo did as w...

Oklahoma. a pet bulldog is recovering just south of oklahoma city after a vent removed more than 500 porcupine quails quills from its face it was playing near a pond when it got too close to the poor could you pine. >> you can't imagine the pain, the intense pain that she had to have been in. >> animal doctors took the 3-year-old pooch into emergency surgery. they say it's doing much better now and it's part of a fox watch across america. >> well, scientists say they have figured out a way to make a certain medicine work much better. add grapefruit juice. researches at the university of chicag...