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Redescription. taking aspirin may lower your risk of developing ovarian cancer. if you take it twice a week you are 40 percent less likely to develop the disease. the finding is a big break through because ovarian cancer is the most deadly it has few effective screening tools. do you need a yearly checkup? if you are generally healthy maybe not. 2,000 patienteds worldwide says routine exams have no effect on referrals from specialist ors time off from work. doesn't mean you should skep out on vaccines or screenings. we appreciate it as always. >> the time now is 40 after the top of the hour....

If they are, that's important evidence the person has alzheimer's. >> this is a scan of my brain. later we'll tell you what dr. cummings saw. another part of the exam is memory testing. since alzheimer's affects the ability to learn and remember new information, doctor cummings is looking at my memory and recall skills. >> grass. engine. >> good. now, tell me as many of those words as you can remember. >> butter, arm, short -- >> brain controls everything we are, larry. our memory, our thinking, our emotions, our movement, everything we are as human beings is controlled by the brain and that i...

And for now, the brain scan is only effective on people over age 60. doctors are not ready to use these tests as screening tools like, say, a mammogram, just yet. ron reagan watched me take the tests on this day, decided he didn't want to take any of his own. >> you don't want to know if you'll get it? >> until they come up with a cure or a real definite treatment, i'd just as soon remain blissfully ignorant. >> how well is our understanding of it improving? >> i think we've made enormous strides in terms of understanding alzheimer's disease. we know that there are several proteins involved. w...

Only effective on people over age 60. doctors are not ready to use these tests as screening tools like, say, a mammogram, just yet. ron reagan watched me take the tests on this day, decided he didn't want to take any of his own. >> you don't want to know if you'll get it? >> until they come up with a cure or a real definite treatment, i'd just as soon remain blissfully ignorant. >> how well is our understanding of it improving? >> i think we've made enormous strides in terms of understanding alzheimer's disease. we know that there are several proteins involved. we know the cells are dying. we ...

Is it not? >> well, every state mandates you go through an evaluation before playing a sport and in that evaluation there are specific questions supposed to pick up for the screening tools for sudden cardiac death and the conditions such as these. that coupled with the physical examination and listen for murmurs or abnormal heart sounds is the way we've been doing this we to answer your question some advocate ekgs, as well. >> would that have detected this kind of condition? >> most likely it would have detected this condition. yes. there are a lot of variables in terms of things to look for i...