dr. donald gerlach -- berwich. it is ironic that the president chose independence day for this action, avoiding the senate's constitutional check on executive power to appoint dr. berwick. the chairman of the finance committee, senator baucus from montana, said, "i am troubled that, rather than going through the standard nomination process, dr. berwick was recess- appointed." without a public confirmation hearing on the nomination, the senate and the american people do not have the opportunity to learn about the man who will control one's last three of all health care spending in america -- 1/3 of all health care spending in america. a lot is at stake. it will affect nearly every americans care. medicare sets a course for private insurers. as part of the new health care law, dr. berwick will have to cut a half a trillion dollars -- $500 million from medicare, obviously limiting seniors choices. as a result of the recess appointment, dr. berwick will take office through the back door witho

president peterson: dr. kantor, on that note, if this board were to reverse the urban forestry's position and denial, would you be willing to fix your sewer so that -- i mean, obviously you've got a problem whatever tree gets in there, if the roots go through that leaked area. >> i actually don't think the sewer is terribly broken. there's one area where there's a little leakage at the junction and the sewer pipe is quite intact the rest of the way up from what i can -- i'm not aware it hasn't collapsed, you know, it hasn't -- commissioner hwang: but i thought that's where the roots invaded the pipe. >> the roots apparently go in, the guy told me, where the two pipes meet -- roots really grow wherever there is new water. and what i -- you know, replacing the whole sewer system is something i would really love to avoid. i mean, this is huge. this is eight feet under the sidewalk. commissioner hwang: i'm talking about fixing the seal. you've got sewage leaking somewhere. >> you have to get a backhoe to dig dow

you name the body part, chances are dr. atala is trying to grow one. >> dr.hony atala: currently at the institute, we're working on over 22 different tissues and organs. >> safer: so, bladder? >> atala: yes. >> safer: heart? liver? kidneys? >> atala: yes, kidneys, lungs. the possibilities really are endless. >> safer: are you suggesting a remarkable future of, when organs fail, we simply replace them and live to 120, 150? >> atala: well, the hope for the future is that if you do have a patient who has organ failure, you don't want that patient to die because you're waiting for an organ. people are dying every day on the transplant wait list. so the hope of the field is that we can provide replacement tissues and organs that can be used to help them survive. >> safer: dr. atala presides over the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts. he has made everything from components of fingers to kidneys. it's enough to make dr. frankenstein jealous. slightly spooky, isn't it? dr. atala says every organ in our body contains special stem cells that are

commissioner garcia: dr. cantor, your plumber when he was photographing your sewer line, has he suggested whether or not he thinks it's the city's problem or yours? >> i know it's not the city's. commissioner garcia: even though it's on the street -- >> it's under the sidewalk, it's not out in the sidewalk. because we're really looking -- commissioner garcia: it's ok. i was curious for your sake whether you'd be saving money if the city were to get involved. >> of course i would. i even called my insurance company and said could you help me out here? that's not in list of things they do. but we went straight down from that sidewalk, that's one of the ways into your pipes is to go straight down from the sidewalk, that's even mine and that was full of roots, just the vertical. but then when we went on the horizontal down between the building and the sidewalk, there is one location where the guy said the roots seemed to be -- and it's just where the pipes join. president peterson: dr. kantor, on that note, if th

dr. mitch katz, who deserves so much credit for getting us here. i think the commission behind me for their stewardship, and to all the men and women at work in this remarkable place that change people's lives each and every day. 100,000 direct lives are changed, but every time i come here, i realize you are not just saving patients. you are taking care of families, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers, brothers. i have seen it too many times, the faces of those parents. i cannot even keep a straight face because it is so difficult to see someone in pain, but to see the pride on their face because of the job you have done. i'm just happy we are here to extent that magic, to share our values in a most meaningful and substantive way. i'm glad to kick off this remarkable institution that combines the best of san francisco. congratulations to all of us for being here today. thank you, mr. mayor. -- >> thank you, mr. mayor. when i needed for this project to go forward to the voters, i need

dr. terry l. cline, administrator, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services; congressman danny k. davis, 7th district of illinois; paul samuels, president, legal action center; pat george, kansas state representative, district 119. dr. cline, we're spending an estimated $484 billion in health care costs due to addiction. how many people are affected by this problem in our nation? this is a huge issue that permeates every sector of society. we know that there are approximately 22 million people across the united states who are struggling with substance abuse and dependence. that's about 9.1 percent of the population. it's huge. so the problem, one would say, is really widespread around the country, pat. well, as dr. cline pointed out, approximately 10 percent of the population has an abuse problem but it actually affects about 75 percent of our population. and so there is seldom a person that i meet that doesn't have some conne

dr. margaret hamburg. >> apply your sharpest scientific thinking and bring your best judgment to the questions facing the agency. >> reporter: avandia has been one of glaxosmithkline's blockbuster drugs used by millions of type-2 diabetes patients since 1999. but new questions on avandia's risks prompted the food and drug administration to re-examine the drug's safety. even f.d.a.'s own scientists came up with different analyses of a glaxo study designed to look at avandia's heart safety versus other drug treatments. dr. ellis unger a deputy director of drug evaluation said >> the analysis is reassuring, a favorable trend on mortality. >> reporter: dr. thomas marciniak works in the same f.d.a. office and gave a stinging review of avandia's safety trials. glaxo officials insisted their product is safe. dr. murray stewart vice president for drug research and development. >> overall, when used appropriately, rosiglitazone has a positive benefit/risk profile and should remain a treatment for

here are the outcomes that resulted. >> dr. robbie ludwig, dr. drew is talking about treatment. i haven't heard an acknowledgment from mel gibson or his camp. >> it sounds like it's him. also mel gibson has a history where he has gone out on very angry alcoholic rages, saying negative things about many different groups. you know, he said ante semitic comments, anti-black come, anti-homosexual comes. this just adds to the list. it's not terribly shocking in some way, oh, he also degrades and devalues women. it's not like he was considered a saint before this happened. >> well, drew, he was considered a saint to moviegoers. this is a dramatic fall in the public's view, even a dramatic fall from 2006 where he made the anti-semitic comments where he was arrested. >> it's not surprising we're seeing greater intensity. more outrageous things and more frequently these are occurring these progress in men his age. >> we did hear a baby crying on this tape very clearly. mel said i don't believe you. you're making this up. again, blaming here. is this the only clip we heard the baby crying

dr. clark, let's move now to talk about, we had mentioned earlier, very quickly, co-occurring conditions. are co-occurring conditions in medication-assisted therapies compatible? of course they are compatible. and the most important thing to recognize is that many of the people who present for specially driven care have co-occurring depressant disorders or co-occurring anxiety disorders or other experiences like post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma. the issue is that the clinicians in the settings need to be aware if you've got medications for the co-occurring depression or the anxiety disorder and you are contemplating the use of methadone. care must be exercised in the use of methadone and benzodiazepine. they're generally contraindicated. a person may be on an anti-depressant or an antipsychotic person may have an anti-seizure medication. all of these issues need to be taken into consideration, which is why we want to make sure that when people present, they feel comfortable enoug

i have to say that dr. richards probably will not authorize this, but i am going to make a plug for the book he has written. i want to say he has written the book "convict criminology." another book called "behind bars." and "beyond bars." so check it out on amazon. we also have with us the policy co-director of the national employment law project. and eliza hirsch is the supervising attorney in the clean slate pride is at the east bay community law center. welcome, panelists. i want to tell the audience that while we are having this session, if you have questions, feel free to write them down, and the ushers will get them some you. at the end of the discussion, we will have a question and answer session. dr. richards, it is my understanding you have some personal experience in this area. i would ask you to share your experiences with us and tell us about the barriers that exist for people who have a criminal record. >> i'm a convicted felon. i'm an ex-con. and i'm a professor. i'm the leader of the convert

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dr.ant. for that extraordinary introduction. let's give him another big round of applause. that's what the naacp produces. i'm grateful dr. bryant for your friendship and support over the years. to chairman amer tis julian bond, an attorney pamela horowitz, to vice chair leon russell, members of the national board of directors, special contribution board of trustees, president benjamin jel ourks s and first lady, and delegates and friends, i am privileged to be with you tonight in kansas city. i became a member of the naacp youth and college division as a freshman in 1984. never would i imagine that 26 years later i would address its national convention as chairman of the national board. michigan election to this post looping with the selection of benjamin todd jelus 22 months ago, signals the passing of the baton to the next generation of leaders who would become the new front line for social justice advocacy in our nation. [applause] again it is an honor to leave the organization and in

sanchez said that you did not file dr because he waited to see what this process would be? >> yes, it is possible that we made a mistake. we were on a little confused from the process standpoint. the deadline close to two days before we were going to come before you. our understanding was that the relevant question here before you was whether this was considered a formula retail use and if so, this takes into play a lot of other checks and balances. that would guide subsequent -- all of the other things on the building permit. this was not going to be affective if this appeal was denied and they continue for the form of a retail use. our understanding was that that was the relevant question. if we made a mistake not asking for this, this was our mistake. >> can we allow mr. abrams? >> it is stated that you have three weeks from the time that you received the lod and nothing was filed until three weeks later. >> unfortunately for us, we did not have the luxury of hiring a legal team. we have three weeks from the time that we heard of the later of the termination but we were

my two and a blogger acca bob bess and dr terry jones a senior pastor at the dove world outreach center from florida i first as dr jones why it is that he wants to make september eleventh burn the koran day. well of course september eleventh was a and what happened was. of course a very very serious thing. i believe that it reveals the true colors of islam and we thought about what can we do to really show. the dangers of what happened that day and it's not only what happened that day but actually what islam does around the world and we felt burning the koran would be something of that magnitude but what is it here that islam does do around the world . well i believe it's islamic mission to dominate the world. to replace local governments if you replace the constitution of the united states was surreal all i believe that's very obvious that as you look around the world you see difference of islam if you look at the trouble that england's having the trouble there germany's i haven't. you see dominated countries who are dominated by islam even countries like saudi arabia you see there are

so what is the solution, dr. richard s. -- dr. richards? how are we going to turn this around for california and the nation? >> i am actually giving this paper in two weeks in finland at a conference, but just some of our ideas that come out of the convict criminology group. the first is and the war on drugs. just and it. -- just end it. it started in 1960 with richard nixon. it has been going on 50 years. nobody has even kept count of how many people have been arrested -- 10 million, 20 million, 30 million? it sounds like something out of stalin's russia. turn in your neighbors, turn in your friends. if you turn in 10 people, you get less time in prison. that is what it

i have to say from my perspective, not having dr. catts here is a bit confusing because as was stated in the chronicle today, he said the legislation would not require a judge to order medication and that's what he seems to base his opinion on. seems to be a little bit of either factual or legal confusion on this issue. >> perhaps it's not an issue of requiring. it's an issue of permission. in other words, depending on the particular situation, the petition has to go forward to the judge based on an assessment by a mental health provider and that -- whatever that assessment is and includes for a treatment plan, then that goes forward. as i said several times, i believe that for the vast majority of patients for whom this would be appropriate, that would include the use of anti-psychotic types of medications. what mitch was saying in the paper today was that he didn't believe that that was possible, that this did not allow for medication or ordering medication for someone that's in an acute mental health facility. that's the part that

and dr. clark, if an individual was going to be using a medication-assisted therapy to really overcome their addiction, if they decided to really relapse, or if they relapse, what would happen to that individual under these medications? well i think the most important thing is that the individual has engaged either a clinic or practitioner who has some understanding of the substance use disorder process. a person who has a slip, nothing may happen. a person who is actively using other substances, say a person's on methadone and is actively using heroin, that's something that would have to be addressed in the clinic situation because you risk overdose. and one of the things the clinic would want to do is to try to figure out what is behind the slip, if you will. so the first thing to do is to discuss what's going on in your life with your clinic counselor and/or doctor, or if you're on buprenorphine, with your physician so that you can alter your dose if appropriate, add another medication dep

i think dr.rew is right, with regard to having a bottom but my concern for so long, until that scram bracelet went on her ankle, was today going to be her last day? that is why i was reaching out. >> i don't want there to be misinterpretation that michael and i think the seine temp appropriate, we don't. we sent a letter to the court today, sent one previously, begging the court not to incarcerate her had i'm a pragmatic, larry, what enmessage does it send to someone to go to jail for 84 minutes. >> larry: adhering to the law? >> of course the judge had the discretion to do it think pragmatically what good does it do to send someone to jail for a short period of time? it becomes a joke. >> larry: what would happen, michael, if you went to her tonight and hughood her? >> i don't know. maybe i'll try. >> larry: why not? >> aid like to but the last time i did that she had her friends around and wound up -- >> he has tried. i have been there he tried today. brought her some water today in the courtro

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between 1944 when dr.s son delivered his first baby and 1995 when he stopped doing obstetrics dr. watson ushered in a small army of satisfied customers. today they're known simply as... >> i'm a watson baby. >> reporter: the watson babies. >> i'm a watson baby. >> reporter: they range in age from 66 all the way down to 15. >> i'm a watson baby. >> reporter: and their ranks are innumerable. >> i'm a watson baby. >> watson baby. >> watson baby. >> reporter: how many babies do you think you delivered? >> somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000. >> reporter: 15,000 and 18,000? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: that's nearly 10% of the entire augusta population. many families here have three generations of watson babies. >> he delivered all these children. there's 40 people in this picture. >> oh, my gosh! >> one family. >> we went to a basketball game one night and he got to looking at the program and he says "i delivered every one of these kids." ( laughs ) >> reporter: dr. watson's 85- year-old wife audrey says her husb

we are talking this morning with dr. jeff burns historian and archivist for arch die cease of san francisco and a deacon in the church, doctor, deacon, jeff, welcome back to the program. we were talking before about the people who played sterling roles in the development of the catholic church in san francisco and really by that i mean the archdiocese of san francisco for so many years encompassed of north earn california. the reardon who succeeded archbishop allemany what was his role. >>> he built st. patricks seminary which opened 1898. he tried to open a seminary because he wanted a native clergy but had great difficulty getting an order of priests to run the seminary. reardon succeeded and then also built the new cathedral down on gary and got dedicated in 1891. >> that is not there any more. >> it burned down in 1962 in a dramatic fire and that lead to our beautiful new modern cathedral, dedicated 1970/71. >> i was trying to figure out a way of organizing this. certainly one of the largest events in the history of

host: dr.oward koh is on your screen, he is the assistant secretary of health and human services and he's here to talk about the national hiv/aids strategy announced by the president and the white house. dr. koh, how many people in america have aids? >> we have over one million people in this country infected and some 56,000 people infected every year. that's one person infected every 923456 had 23456 1/2 minutes. that's too much. host: about 1.1 million people have aids. >> h.i.v. guest: h.i.v. host: in the states. guest: right. host: how do you define h.i.v. and aids? guest: h.i.v. means you're infected and you have the virus. aids means you have various accompanying illnesses or aids-defining illness of the 1.1 million h.i.v. up effected people about 400,000 have aids. host: how -- is h.i.v. a death sentence still? guest: absolutely not. the good news, peter, is we've made so much progress recipe treatment and so many people are living healthy, productive lives who are h.i.v. above or who ha

dr. finland. i know bp has an emergency medical service na sillity or tent, or whatever. but there's also the jefferson medical center and some others. when they come in off the beach, or having respiratory problems, which we're interested in, blisters on their hands from picking this stuff up, which is not only impact of oil, but what has been -- are you saying that they can go to any medical facility, whatever is closest and whatever and they're not mandated to come there? >> what you described gives me concern. i have not heard of that. >> we want the best treatment. the highest priority is the safety and health in the workers and the response. so i think what we would want to do is make sure they got the best treatment they could. we have also committed to having independent health monitoring done. >> what is the independent way of doing it? >> we're working so that they agree of protocol and a way of caring it out. >> do you have that protocol established now? >> i don't think that's

dr. barry robinson is here from noaa. when he concludes, hopefully ms. jackson is here. if not, we will go forward to hearing our very able administrator from epa, whom i traveled to the golf with. this hearing will mel come to order. it is the official hearing of the commerce -- in this hearing will come to order. the purpose of the hearing is to determine what is it that we dispersants.is perso what is the impact is having on people, on real life, and on communities. what do we know it? -- what is the impact is having on people, on marine life, and on communities. we are going to look at, are there things we are going to need to add in the appropriations committee to the noaa budget or encourage it at epa and others to see what we do. our number one concern is the safety of the american people save. when catastrophe affects them, what is the consequences of that catastrophe? we salute our president for being compassionately involved in this issue. having talked with him and having troub

dr. lapook explains, the battle over this drug is not over yet. >> so the voting results... >> reporter: today's vote culminates years of debate over avandia's safety and still opinions are deeply divided among patients... >> please think about those of us that have flourished on avandia. >> reporter: ...and doctors. >> we still have increases in stroke, in heart failure. >> reporter: in the end, a majority of the committee voted avandia should remain an option for patients with diabetes. in the 33-member panel, 12 votes to pull the drug off the market, 20 voted to keep it on the market with most suggesting further restrictions. one abstained. >> i do not think the evidence was strong enough to suggest that the drug should be taken off the market. >> i think that it's pretty clear that the public would be best served by not having the drug available. >> reporter: the public is already speaking. avandia sales plummeted following a 2007 study suggesting a higher risk of heart attack. the ul

. >> reporr: but the people of ral western kenya knew what they needed and dr.agner would be just the person to help them eablish quality health care. >> i don't know another program like this in the world founded by one or two individuals for wh it was a part-time interest. >> dr. pearl is ceo of the group. >> they dn't have a staff, they didn't have a fundraising machine or a corporation behind them. they just went out and did it 'cause it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: a friend of dr. wagr's daughter, a young kenyan, invited her to come help in the rural community where he grew up. she brought a team of seven other kaiser doctors for the first trip. >> we gothere and we found incredibly ck people who were incredibly knowledgeable and pro-active and th hooked us. >> whethert was malnutrition, malaria, worms, itas amazing because they appreciated your services. >> reporter: this pediatrician has been back seven times since that initial journey using all her vacation time and even taking unpaid lee to teach pediatrics and followp on health care programs

so, dr. edwards, what would you have to say about the fact that most labor economistins have fod that immigration has had a positive effect on the wages of americans, and also if we lost the undocumented farm workers, would you still be in favor of rounding them up and shipping them home, considering so many americans in complementary jobs would lose their jobs? where would we get the people to perform the jobs of farm workers? >> again, where do i start? if you take boarhaus' work as a whole, including his entire work, his book called "heaven's door" and other of his scholarly publications -- i've read a good t of boarhaus and other economists in general -- this is the case that where there are more people the labor force there are lower wages. where there are the ability to substitute capital for labor, that is mechanicization, which happen ithe tomato industry, we ended up with fewer jobs in california particularly and the tomato industry, but they were higher-paying jobs, they were better

dr. larry robinson is here from noaa and when he concludes hopefully ms. jackson is here, and if not, we will go to those from the community and then go forward to hearing from the able administrator from the epa who i traveled to the gulf with. this hearing is now going to come to order. it is an official hearing of the commerce, justice, science appropriations subcommittee, and the purpose of the hearing is to determine what is it that we know about dispersants, what is the impact that it is having on people, marine life and on communities. what do we know? can we count on what we think we know, and what do we need to know more? and as we get ready to put our bill for fiscal year 2011 together, we want to look at, are there things that we need to add in the appropriations committee to either the noaa budget or encourage it at epa and others to see what we do. our number one concern is the safety of the american people. safety of the air they breathe, the food they eat, and when a catast

dr. cline was talking about, about the key role that the federal government can play in the leadership that congressman davis is talking about. samhsa and csat, through partners for recovery, have done a great job of getting information out to people, coordinating, getting ideas around the country, allowing people to share what's working in other places, and really be able to work together to get the word out that there really are a lot of effective things that can be done. one of the major goals of that has been to address the key problem, which congressman davis mentioned, which is that a lot of people still don't get that alcohol and drug dependence is a disease and an illness and one that can be effectively treated. despite the fact that it's more than a half-century since the american medical association said that addiction and alcoholism is a disease, and all the studies we have that show that treatment really is as effective for addiction and it's as effective for alcohol and drug

dr. gingrey has, all health care professionals worked very hard to make sure that health care is patient-centered. it's about the patient. and this is not about the patient. this obviously is government, this is not patient-centered health care. this is government-centered health care. and there's many different proposals out there. let me just touch on two of those. because i think it's very important that we, as we show how the negative impacts of this, that we show the alternatives. the things we are working on that are better solutions. what i like to call smart government solutions. going back to july, 2009, when we introduced the putting patients first act. that's an act that addresses people with pre-existing conditions, to make sure they are able to purchase affordable health care insurance. it's about providing greater access to care, it was about bringing down the cost of health care for all americans, it was about preserving and even increasing the innovation quality of health

dr.and in front of the house there, between 50 and 100 people had gathered, and i just walked over and joined the group and listened to dr. king, and the group standing there were ready to go to war for their man in that they carried--some had weapons. some had pipes. some had bottles. some had rocks. they had all of these weapons. they were gonna listen to dr. king and then go out and start a war. that was in everybody's head, i believe, and i just stood there awed, frightened, not believing what i was seeing, and dr. king was saying--and these are the words i remember most vividly-- "those things are not the weapons of war that you have. this is not the way we're going to win this battle." that is not verbatim, but it's close. "drop those weapons, and we will find a way to win this war." and the droppings of the weapons, which i can hear this moment--i will never forget the significance of hearing these things fall to the ground one by one by one until it appeared that nobody had a weap

larry over and dr. trainer, who, like dr. dierks, are working for free. the steps to rebuild her face, complete with natural character and realistic eyes, is part science, and part artistry. a pass eck cast is made of chrissy's face. then silicone is poured into the mold to form the skin-toned facial features. it's baked to seal in texture and color. then painted to reflect the natural flaws of human skin. and then comes the makeup. >> we got you blushing beige. >> reporter: there's eyeliner, eye shadow and mascara. baked right into the mask. >> chrissy's got this maif hit makeup of hers. we will seal it in. >> reporter: lashes are poked in. possessions the eyes is critical, since so much of what we feel about peel comes from looking dreshgtly into their eyes. >> getting the gaez so when you look, both eyes are looking the same way and that little glint is in the same position. >> reporter: and finally, the moment she's been waiting for. >> let's put it on, make sure it fits. there we go. and the effect of all this work might be best measured from her fam