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Over half of the people have thyroid disease because they have run -- it runs in the family, so, in other words, if someone says, their mother has thyroid disease i check them extra carefully and more than once. >> jamie: same as anything else, right? not to be a separate test, do it as part of screening? >> exactly. and it is women of child bearing years, not just pregnant women because as david said, we are trying to figure out if we should test it before a woman gets pregnant and we don't know what happens in the first trimester if they are having a problem and we didn't start them before h...

Which we'd recommend anyone over the age of 30, pregnant women over the age of 30 should be screened, and anyone with enlarged trilli thyroids, obesi one thing, talk to your doctor about prenatal vitamins, which is i deodine, and, some of the >> jamie: but is it safe. >> no question, they are absolutely safe. 60 million people in the united states probably have thyroid disease. we only catch half of them and as david said 15% of pregnant women have it and we are missing half of them. it's a bag problem because of mental retardation in the fetus and the problem, that 80% of the people with thyr...

>> eric: back now with "sunday house call," hear about the medical break through, a big one? a simple test, will soon check if men with a history of prostate cancer, family history if they have a fault you jooern -- faulty gene that could lead to the risk. >> the big study was published in the "new england journal of medicine" and they are looking at a specific type of families with prostate cancer, called familial prostate cancer and genetics plays a big role and they look at 200 genes on a chromosome and found a mutation that is occurring and when you have that, you have a higher risk of get...

Lifelock service guarantee cannot be offered to residents of new york. >> eric: time for "sunday house call," joining us this morning as always, dr. marc siegel, associate professor of medicine at langone medical center and the author of "the inner pulse". >> jamie: and dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center. >> eric: doctors, good to see you. new information for expecting parents, a noninvasive test for down's syndrome. doctors say this screening can be administered like ten weeks into the pregnancy, 99% accurate.

In georgetown, south carolina where a bain capital owned company used to exist and he'll hammer on mitt romney's record with bain capital again. >> jamie: john roberts, live in myrtle beach and john cusack, editor of "the hill" joins us. >> good morning, jamie. >> jamie: the semi surge, a vote of confidence from the group of evangelicals who got together in texas for rick santorum, too little, too late? >> well, it is a big deal but it might be. timing in politics is everything, and, it should have been helpful for rick santorum, maybe right after iowa or, perhaps even before iowa. mitt romney...