which is the professional association for doctors and other medical providers the american medical association is leading in a song on medicare for all legislation. versus. gotten around when it was. actually. i need to work on my steps to. while these angry nurses marched down the a.m.a. held their annual meeting to help themselves on the back for a. the work they did here is the a.m.a.'s president delivering a riveting speech about equitable care and here are the members checking cliff m.d. to see if he is correct. it seems that a.m.a. has been historically opposed to considering health care as a human right so much so that now the medical professionals have stood up and said that the a.m.a. does not stand for them and you know when a drum circle appears outside your door understood drum circles only have been on seoul's disses to ward off evil spirits or to give the seniors of ashville something else to watch because they couldn't figure out how to operate the smart t.v. the rhythm is going to get you i mean it already got them many say am a doesn't serve the patients even the doctors rathe

a recent study published in the journal for the american medical association found that teenagers who start vaping are three times more likely to going to smoke cigarettes and teenagers who do not. and consider this, juul is widely popular with kids for 70% of e-cigarette sales in the united states. make no mistake, juul is partnered with tobacco giants and driving epidemic even as they come before the committee. >> congress we have two alarms for protecting children, history is now repeating itself with e-cigarettes. our inaction combined with fda replacement is dooming an entire new generation of children. most parents care when the teenager is lost in a cloud of deep smoke. i look forward to working with you to address his public-health epidemic head on. i will close by saying this, i never dreamed that i don't have to take cigarette smoking off of airplanes, and my third term in the house for god sake i had a chance to win but he did. and that result because of unforeseen developments was a change in america. in the view towards smoking. we stepped in at that moment finally and to

about earlier, looking to the medical community to provide guidance on the issues and the american medical association oppose marijuana the marijuana tax act because it was gonna make it highly burdensome for medical professionals to be able to use cannabis has a medicine for the patients and in particular the taxes imposed on the physicians , pharmacists and medical cannabis cultivators that were being able to grow the supply market for patients in need of cannabis and this takes place in denver colorado . >> charged with dealing in violation of the marijuana tax act as part of what the act opposes that you had to petition but this became an issue how the law stopped access as cannabis as a medicine. >> caldwell is sentenced to four years both in violation of the tax but it's important to remember that because of our own approach to government in the united states and hetero versus state policy, many state were already on the path to outline access to cannabis this makes it a more favorable national policy to pass so, in this case, you can take a look at the timeline, in 1911, massachusetts in 1913 w

and out of network and out of network according to a new study in "the journal of the american medical association" out of network billing for privately insured patients is becoming more common and more than 40% of insured patients getting emergency treatment are also getting a surprise medical bill for out of network care causing the average amount owed to skyrocket nearly 200%f network doctor are shockingly high and overwhelmingly patients don't want to pay medical roulette >> reporter: experts say patients facing emergencies aren't able to ask coverage questions before being treated he's pushing for new laws to regulate costs and transparency. >> the patients play by the rules and the system doesn't play by the rules, it's outrageous >> it feels unfair >> reporter: a warning that paying for coverage doesn't always protect you from being blindsided by a bill katie beck, nbc news >>> up next tonight, "inspiring america," she's taking the little league world series by storm. >>> finally this evening the little league star making big headlines, the first girl to play in the world series in five yea

several lawsuits have been filed by 20 states including civil rights groups and the american medical association. >>> using science to unleash the power of cannabis in medicine. new research, a first of its kind research center that's about to open in northern california. plus seth curry, paying it forward to help the next generation, thousand golden state warriors star and avid golfer is bringing back a college golf program. >>> we are following reports of grass fires near the highways, this is livermore, another one if san francisco. we will show you that coming up. here is 880 oak land, drive here looks good. >>> weather to start off your tuesday morning, lots of cloud cover out, there warming trend will top our weather headlines. we will look at the numbers coming up. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2. police in southern california still investigating the stabbing death of a retired cal state administrator on their campus. 57 year old steven chap was killed as he was getting out of his car yesterday morning at a campus parking lot. investigators found a backpack with incendiary device inside

doctorld call yourself a and the american medical association could not do anything about it. you could make drugs in a barrel and claimed they would cure cancer and there was no federal drug and ministration to tell you know. that culture began to change at the turn of the last century out quackery andthat snake oil in lectures -- elixirs were hurting the american people. the medical profession was given powers to regulate itself in government got basic powers to require accurate labels on drugs. one reason was the rise of more scientific medicine that yielded new diagnostic tools like the x-ray and new treatments, such as aseptic surgery. regular doctors, the ancestors of today's biomedicine, provided -- acquired more effective goods and services to offer their patients. the icon of this was the hospital, which became known as the dr.'s workshop, and the surgical amphitheater where germ-free, pain free surgery could now be performed. as the mainstream medical profession gained respect, it over medicalrol education and licensing making , it harder for alternative healers to c

according to new research for the journal of the american medical association, more than 5,000 men and more than 1200 women between the ages of 15 and 24 died by suicide in the u.s. in 2017. a record high. some experts say shows like "13 reasons why" that tells the story of a teen who takes her own life have added to the problem. >> almost no one talks about it. there's a lot of people that have depression out there who need help who don't get it. >> reporter: simone's law believes this new law will make it harder to ignore. >> it's showing our society talks open about these things now. >> now, if you or someone you love is struggling with suicidal thoughts, you can take action and find your ally at abc7news.com/takeaction. we have links to resources on suicide and other issues like domestic violence, bullying, and school safety. >>> gun owners in one south bay city may need liability insurance under a new proposal announced today. the mayor said he wants a law to require liability insurance on guns. he also wants a tax on gun and ammunition sales to fund gun safety classes and gun vio

in a 2017 "journal of .e american medical association" study, researchers bought 84 c.b.d. products online and found 70% were mislabeled, containing different amounts of c.b.d. than advertised. tacy allows customers to see lab tests for each of her products by scanninwhat's known as a "quick response code." >> we have q.r. codes that even take you bacto test results for the product we've grown. >> sreenivasan: tobacco-turned- hemp farmers like ryan patterson and randy edwards are well positioned for this new hemp, like tobacconeeds to dry out and cure before being consumed. edwards says he can use the same equipment for hemp that he's used for decades.ar >> the that we're using for tobacco now-- and we've been bafor many years curing too, but we're going to transition >> sreenivasan: edsays themp. existing barns and drying equipment will save him hundreds of thousands of dollars. afdsr he dries the hemp, edw sellit to a company that extracts oil from the plant. >> we're snding at open book extracts processing plant that's under construction at this moment. >> sreenivasan: c

recommendations for bracket screenings, according to a report published in the journal of the american medical association, more women need to be assessed for the potentially deadly mutation of these genes, including women who are considered cancer free following a previous battle, but one of the cancers associated with the bracket g 3 deliberations. >>there are 5 viewers who have scheduling conflicts in of the september. >>including one juror requesting to take the whole month of that. >>when you run for 2. >>happening now police are looking for a suspect who assaulted a man near u c berkeley this morning happened just before 02:00am on channing way 2 blocks from the student union. police say a man was found bleeding profusely from his head. investigators say he was either hit in the head with a blunt object or even stabbed. the maisin ctical condition police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened and u c berkeley police are looking for someone who groped a woman on campus. it happened sunday night on the second floor of the martin luther king junior building. it's a place usually packed wi

in the court with lawsuits by more than 20 states including civil rights groups and the american medical association. >>> three of the jurors in the ghost ship warehouse trial were dismissed today and replaced with three alternates. that means the deliberations that have been going on for the last 10 days after start all over. ktvu's henry lee explains why the judge made the decision. >> reporter: a stunning development with three jurors all women, booted from the ghost ship jury replaced by three alternates. this means 10 days of deliberations are down the drain. and the new jury must start all over. normally talkative defense attorneys were ordered by the jugag order against us. sorry. >> reporter: judge tina thompson told attorneys not to talk to reporters after she kicked three men off the ghost ship jury and replaced them with three alternates. the judge says she wants to stabilize the jury and avoid any further disruptions in this manslaughter trial. the judge has suggested at least one of the jurors may have had inappropriate contact with the media in violation of it repeated admonitions not

a recent study published in the journal of american medical association found that wait times are nowhorter for primary care at the v.a. than at private sector doctors and hospitals. how about that? good job. say hello to our friend. tell him he is doing a great job. what a job all of you have done. to improve the efficiency of the v8, i signed [applause] we are modernizing your medical records to begin a seamless transition from the department of defense into the the a. something they said they couldn't do. they said, we can't do it. it's too complicated. we did it. the v.a. has cut opioid prescriptions by 30% over the last 2.5 years. [applause] we are committed to defeating the opioid epidemic in america. i have instructed all of our people to give so many grants to lots of geniuses all over the country. i said, find a painkiller that is nonaddictive. when younkiller that break your arm and go to the hospital, you don't come out of the hospital at it did to opioids -- addicted to opioids. get a painkiller that is nonaddictive. we are closer than you think. our veterans are seeing dr

. >>> new research todaytu in thee american medical association" says three or more cups of coffee canines in those who experience them occasionally. migraines affect more than a billion people worldwide. >>> next, a photo finish. >>> we end tonight as promised, at the most famous crosswalk in the world. because as charlie d'agata tells us, it was the scene this 8th of august of an anniversary celebration. ♪ >> reporter: it was 50 years ago today that four men crossed the road this way. ever since, fans from across the globe have made the pilgrimage to stride across the most famous crosswalk in rock 'n roll. julie bolsch came here today from colorado springs. >> the beatles are forever. everybody loves them. it's their 50th anniversary, and i wanted to breathe the air that the beatles breathed and be here for this. >> reporter: but this might never have happened. naming the album after the nearby abbey road studios was an impromptu decision, sir paul mccartney told "60 minutes." >> we had another title going on that we didn't really like. so i just said hey, why don't we just call it a

a recent study published in the "journal of american medical association" found that wait times are nowhorter for primary care at the v.a. than at private sector doctors and hospitals. how about that? good job. say hello to our friend. tell him he is doing a great job. he has done some job. what a job all of you have done. to improve the efficiency of the v.a., i signed the veterans appeal and modernization act. do you know what that is? so far this fiscal year, the v.a. has processed nearly one point 2 million claims for compensation and increased the number of appeals decisions by 70% compared to two years ago, when i really started doing this. that is a big number. [applause] we are modernizing your medical records to begin a seamless transition from the department of defense into the v.a. something they said they , couldn't do. you know that, right? they said, we can't do it. it is just too complicated. we did it. the v.a. has also cut opioid prescriptions by 30% over the last 2.5 years. [applause] and we are committed to defeating the opioid epidemic in america. and i have instruct

janet: the american medical association and other trade groups. the american medical associatioion would go on to puh doctors in canada to fight against medicare for all, health and ifr all in canada, the contagion spreads north it would influence people in the united states. we are also o joined by wendell top insurancermer and --ve for cigna he's author of "deadly spin: an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate pr is killing health care and deceiving americans." back to whenthen medicare and medicaid was fought. it became one of the most popular programs in the united states, and then your own trajectory, what you were doing as a top executive at cigna and humana, what you were saying about medicare and medicaid. wendell: my first career, i was certainly saying, that't's privatatize medicare and see wht we can do to get as many people into private plans as we can. when i went to work for humana in 1989, they were selling private managed care plans in the medicare program. that has become a big cash cow for the insurance industry.

several lawsuits have been filed by 20 states, including civil rights groups and the american medical association. >>> new research shows the earth may give early signals when we're about to have a strong earthquake. and the signals are smaller earthquakes. until now, scientists buildinged only about half of all magnitude 4 and stronger quakes were preceded by smaller quakes. a new study shows there were weaker tremors. before moderate to strong southern california earthquakes more than 70% of the time. now, seismologists are looking for evidence that the faults changed before the quakes. scientists say we shouldn't worry about smalter earthquakes. only 5% are followed by a bigger one. >>> accordto a new study, marijuana-related poisoning, involving young studies and teenagers have more than doubled in massachusetts. after the state legalized medical and legal marijuana. exposure increased since 2012. the report echoes previous studies showing an increase in medical marijuana problems, following legalization in california, colorado as well as washington. >>> 8:27. san francisco's mayor london bre

at the world health organization and they're not looking at many medical societies, the american medical association as well as everybody is saying, medically, this is a danger and it was only effecting 10% of the population 10 years ago. presently, all the research i've read says its effecting 50% of the population. as it continues it can effect more people. i just want to read you something real quick here. in the largest settlement from electro magnetic injury the boeing company will pay $500,000 to one of its employees who claim he developed lukemia during his work with electro magnetic radiation. he was charged with knowing of the health risk but failed to warn it's employs' and not precautions to protect them. >> you have 30 seconds, sir. >> the court ruled in favor of the client and this was done in 1990. so keep in mind that 1995 the office of technical technology assessment was defunded in 1996 we ended up with this. how big wire lus made us think that cell phone made a special investigation. >> your time suppose. >> >> the capture of the agency. >> your time suppose. >> is there any other

courts several lawsuits filed by more than 20 states and civil rights groups as well as the american medical association. >>> using science to unleash the pow of cannabis medicine. plans for a new research and a first of its kind research center about to open in northern california. >>> seth curry play paying it forward to help the next generation. how he is inging back a college golf program. >>> your commute in the south bay moving nicely. a check on that and looking at the maps later. the drive on the san mateo bridge, it is getting crowded. traffic is moving at the limit for now. . >>> in weather, waking up to overcast this morning. a warming trend will top our weather headlines. we will look at the numbers coming up. >>> police in southern california still investigating the deadly stabbing of a retired cal state administrator on the first day of classes there. 57 year old steven chan was killed yesterday in a campus parking lot as he was getting out of his car. investigators found a backpack with an incendiary device under his car along with tools that could be used for a kidnapping. >> definitely

more than 20 states along with planned parenthood and the american medical association wanted the court to block the rule from going into effect. all this while the trump administration appeals lower court rulings that blocks the new rule. >>> and president trump apparently dined with silicon valley mogul tim cooke. the president tweeted yesterday he and the apple ceo will be having dinner together and he said apple will be spending lots of money in the u.s. both the president and cook have met several times in the last year. the second part of trump's tweet refers to apple's latest news that it spent $60 billion on u.s. suppliers. apple has been a strong opponent of tariffs on chinese imports, but that's one of the president's primary issues. apple has not commented on the president's tweet. >>> much more ahead for you on "today in the bay" this morning. coming up, not enough educators on campus. the reason the south bay is having a tough time keeping teachers including subs. >>> also it's time to clear the shelters. nbc and telemundo tea up to find pets a forever home. oh thaphenomena

several lawsuits filed by more than 20 states, civil rights groups and the american medical association. >>> sanoma center for at risk teenagers hiring a private investigator to track down alumni to make sure they were not molested or victimized. officials believe 7 boy were molested at the hannah boys center by the former executive director father john cruz and the former clinical director kevin thorp who is in a state prison, he pleaded guilty to charges related to prolonged sexual abuse of three former boys attending the hanna center. according to the press democrat , the school hopes to have investigators selected by october so they can contact former students who attended hanna, dating back to 1983, when cruz started there at that center. >>> governor newsom signed a bill that sets new for the use of deadly force by police officers in california. >> a hope that we can reduce the number of lives lost and we can begin to build trust and heal. i'm honored to sign this legislation. >> currently an officer can use deadly force when they belief it is reasonable. starting next year, that

the federal government considers cannabis as dangerous as heroin or pcp even though the american medical associationost experts agree, but that's not the case but in the eyes of uncle, sam, they look to those lands at conduct of non-citizens and citizens alike, and they can use it as a bargaining chip are some issue to trip up your immigration status. >>and organization specifically deals with the issues surrounding cannabis would you have an overall reaction to today's developments involving a legal immigrants in the united states and various issues about public assistance as well as what you you know came to talk to us about today. >>yeah, i mean immigrants for decades and face headwinds into gaining citizenship it can take years obviously being very expensive and with president trump's administration has taken a very hard line stanse to immigration and he's going through and looking for all the technical ways to potentially limit immigration it's it can potentially catch you up we've known about this in the cannabis industry for a number of years. and it's not alone a limited to noncitizens ear c

the plaintiffs include 20 states and the american medical association.rying to overturn that new rule. the new rule does take effect on september 18. reporting live in san francisco, jana katsuyama, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> three potential mass shooting plot foiled in three days, why police are crediting the public with helping to thwart the potential attacks. >>> new rules for california law enforcement. the governor's action today on when officers can use deadly force. >>> jimmy g sees his first live action in almost a year but tonight's performance was not what the niners were hoping for. mark has the breakdown later in sports. here's one you guys will like. show me making it. oh! i got one. the best of amy poehler. amy, maybe we could use the voice remote to search for something that you're not in. show me parks and rec. from netflix to prime video to live tv, xfinity lets you find your favorites with the emmy award-winning x1 voice remote. show me the best of amy poehler, again. this time around... now that's simple, easy, awesome. experience the entert

this new study was just published in a journal of the american medical association and cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us now with more on this alarming new report. elizabeth, why are these donated kidneys being thrown away? >> ana, basically, they are concerned about the quality of these kidneys. let's take a look at these numbers and compare them with numbers in france. so in the united states, between 2004 and 2014, 128,000 kidneys were transplanted and almost 28,000 were discarded. that discard rate is about half of what it is in france. and the reason, in the united states, to put it simply, doctors pickier. they are more likely to say, oh, this person who died whose kidney we can take, that person was too old, weapon don't want to use his or her kidney. or that person had certain illnesses and we don't want to use his or her kidney. in france, they are less picky and in the rest of europe, they're less picky. and the authors of this study are saying that americans should be more like europeans. we would save lives. >> just think about that. how many people d

. >>> a study in the the american medical association finds a link between high blood pressure and dementiaan adults have high blood pressure. dr. tara narula joins us with what you can do to stay healthy. good morning. nice to see you. what is the connection? >> so dementia effects 10% of americans over 65. we don't have a lot of great treatments or preventative measures. a lot of people don't know that hypertension or high blood pressure can be associated with future risk of dementia. this is something that is potentially modifiable. and dementia being one. most feared conditions for american adults. this study looked at 4,800 americans and followed them over 24 years. they looked at blood pressure patterns and found two patterns that were associated with an increased risk of dementia. the first is when you have high blood pressure in mid-life, 50s to 60s, that persisted into your later life. the second pattern was if you had high blood pressure in mid-life, but then developed very low blood pressure in your later years. by low i mean less than 90/60. all of this really highlights the fac

associates that as an impossible resolution due to both pressures from groups like the american medical association and from unions like the uaw that wanted to tie insurance to employment. but forgotten in that narrative is a group of hospitals, religious hospitals that would on the one hand publicly say that it is absolutely vital to provide health care to poor people. this is necessary and it's tied to our religious beliefs. at the same time, because they felt that a government health care system would completely destroy their own hospital systems, didn't want any part of a government health care system. right? this is an area where it doesn't necessarily seem to be about religion or theology, but hospitals are businesses and corporations and groups that were heavily invested in the health care industry, therefore, were making calculated business decisions that in some ways contradicted their own sort of social justice or other theological orientations around health care and healing. it's this contradicting nature of religion in these institutional spaces that i think deserves far more sustained

. >> i think it's important, as i said in my opening statements, it's supported by the american medical association, the heart association, the cancer society. so we have one doctor who says he doesn't like the aaca but al the associations who represent providers say this is really important for the american people and for us. >> they're right in the fact that, yes, you can find someone that believes this or believes that. it's personal experiences. but we have to look wholistically and overall that what is the greatest benefit. what would happen to medicaid expansion if the trump administration's position prevails in court? >> well, it would end and all of those people who got insurance would be thrown off the rolls. >> i'm the chair of the congressional black caucus health brain trust. information we've been given when you look at african-american men, the rate of prostate cancer has gone down significantly since many more have the aca and also breast cancer in black women has also gone down because of access and care because of the aca. >> yeah. i recently wrote an article about disparities in c

a recent study published in the journal for the american medical association found that teenagers who start vaping are three times more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes than teenagers who don't. and consider this. juul is widely popular with kids and accounts for 70% 70% of e-cigarette sales in the united states. make no mistake, juul now partnered with tobacco giant altria is driving this epidemic even as they come before this committee and pose for holy pictures. congress waited far too long to start protecting children from cigarettes. history is now repeating itself with e-cigarettes. our inaction combined with fda's licensee is doing an entire new generation of children to nicotine addiction. most parents care when the teenager is lost in the cloud of vape smoke. does congress? i look for to working with you on a bicameral basis to address this public health epidemic had on. i will close by saying this. i never dream when i went after taking sigrid smoking off of airplanes, in my third term in the house, for god's sake, that i'd the chance to win, but i did. the net result of

about fluoride, in the water, and there was a recent study that was published in the american journal of medical association that was concerned about the potential for fluoridated water consumed during pregnancy to result in potentially lowered iqs, in children. the study was not absolutely conclusive, and the consensus of most people in the academic community, looking at that research was -- this is interesting information. there needs to be a lot more study before we draw any real conclusions on it. i wanted to quickly summarize where we are at with fluoride. california mandates that we actually floor date our water, all public water systems are required to fluoride their water by legislation. it's helpful in preventing dental caries in children. that is a strong belief by the cdc and others, that this is an important public health program. it's also an equity issue. our optimal level for fluoride in our water system is .7 milligrams per liter or parts per million. that is below the public health goal of 1 milligram per liter. we are adding fluoride in very low concentrations. that concentration was revis

one medical association saying in 10 years we could have 100,000 fewer doctors than we need. >> the association for american00,000 short. imagine if they only had government insurance to choose from. doctors are fleeing government insurance now. almost 30% won't see new medicare patients. are you going to give them only that or are you going to quit? >> we have seen examples of the waste and fraud and government controlled medical centers, whether it's dealing with va hospitals. for all of the good news about medicare. the bad news is it loses 10% of everything we put into it which comes up to 60 billion a year to waste and fraud. you multiply that by a factor of two or three or four or more to get healthcare, how many dollars would object going down the drain. you lose innovation. we are talking about a time of personalized healthcare. we are talking about genetic treatments that only work for one person, not another. genetic therapies. we won't be able to pay for that. we have medicare for all. everything gets negotiated. we'll talk about the money the drug companies make. we'll lose our solutions of the

much better looking but i appreciated that he tried to step up so julian is in the association of the american medical society, this past week. they are primary sports medicine primary care sports medicine physicians who largely represent the physicians who work in ncaa members world, same for the american orthopedic society for sports medicine although orthopedic surgeons and the american osteopathic academy of sports medicine, these are osteopaths with the same training and the same qualifications, they are primary care physicians taking care of student athletes, the college athletics society works hand-in-hand with national athletic trainers society, the collegiate strength and conditioning coaches association, they along with national strength and conditioning associations are the two primary bodies that oversee, congress of neurologic surgeons, corey swinger institute named for corey stringer who died of heatstroke when he was with minnesota vikings and that is an institute the university of connecticut overseas. they endorsed this document. knoxy oversees the equipment and the american academy o

. >> does the medical community have any advice for i.c.e.? >> both the american psychological associationhe same thing. these children need the to be the priority in these situations and that means you need to make sure plans are in place beforehand to take care of these children. and like the government said they didn't want to alert people, didn't want to alert other authorities who might leak the information. but in some cases you have to do that. they children have to be priority because it will have long term repercussions and issues. you need be very careful because this could impact their lives for years to come. >> thank you. >>> president trump is flip flopping on the issue of guns. what's the chances of him changing his mind on background checks again? again ♪ ain't nothing but a heartache... ♪ no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ♪ i never wanna hear you say... ♪ no, kevin... no, kevin! believe it! geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. we're going all inve ythion strawberries.ra, at their reddes

american medical journal of medicine. here you see faces of nine american football players who all died as a result of sickle cell trait associated crisis. the military said the publication 1987 establishes very clear if you're african-american and her sickle cell trait positive you have nearly 30 times the risk of sudden death event in the first year compared to being african-american and sickle cell trait negative. university of washington looked at a cohort and established or also established this risk is about the same. african-american sickle cell trait positive have higher relative risk of sudden cardiac death. she determine if your african american sickle cell trait football player, you have an absolute risk of one in in 185f sudden death in. going back to the original construct, sickle cell trait falsity of the category. dr. emery talked about lightning strikes that's commonly using that analogy but the sickle cell trait rooted confiscations and deaths are rather rare. we need to have the right balance here in the right narrative when we committed to african-american athletes on what is the risk and what is not the risks?

are safe medically there's still a lot twlwe don't know there's also concern the problem could be more widespread, reaching other states that aren't tracking cases. the american vaping association tells nbc news millions of adults vape nicotine each month without issue and say it's pour likely than the products causing lung damage contain thc or illegal drugs. nelson is now recovering >> i just don't want this to happen to other people >> reporter: as vaping grows more popular, so do concerns over health risks catie beck, nbc news, new york >>> and up next tonight, they're the talk of the animal world. two male penguins that apparently wanted a family, now getting their wish their wish. ally talk about your insurance unless you're complaining about it. you go on about how... ...it's so confusing it hurts my brain. ya i hear ya... or say you can't believe... ...how much of a hassle it is! and tell anyone who'll listen... (garbled)....it's so expensive! she said it's so expensive. tell me about it. yes.. well i'm telling the people at home. that's why esurance is making the whole experience surprisingly painless. so, you never have to talk about it, unless you're their spokespers

associated with the 54th regimen and robert shaw because i think they were friends. >> what kind of training did they have and where did they receive it? >> getting a medical education, an african-american man trying to get an education was difficult. it might surprise you that they did get formal medical educations, almost all of them. some got them in europe. al alexander augusta got his in canada. there were four african-americans that served as surgeons that got their education in iowa. there was another that got his at the university of liverpool. that's a whole other talk i could give on him and his family. >> would there be more of a prerequisite to become care givers? >> no. it wasn't focused on technical medical things unlike it is now. medical education was a little bit different. you could get it by an apprenticeship. apprenticeships and going to medical school at the same time. once we get to the late 1800s, early 1900s, what happened was you have medical physicians, african-american with no hospital to work in. they formed an operated their own hospitals. provident hospital in which i was the first own and operated hospital. the hospitals haed a hospital and a training scho

medical community was broad and wide spread and we didn't have that with basil iq. basil iq surprised us and i think control iq will, as well. >> that's for people, the american diabetes associationrkable presentation study. 30% of the 1.6 billion people with type one in the united states, i was listening to miles white from abbot the actual worldwide population is gigantic and a monster unfortunate problem. >> yes, it is and the type one part of this marketplace is also big worldwide. i think it may be type two or maybe combinations but we're finding that in europe it's a very significant market for us and we are, you know, gaining traction in that market, as well that's a driver of our off skpi sid and revised guidance. >> one last question, when you look at these studies that you're doing, i'm trying to figu figure out when you offer pivotal data, what's the time period from pivotal data to when it's in the market >> well, it's the fda gaining time frame and we're predicting we'll have approval this year and then traditionally, how quickly could you launch that product? normally it was a new hardware upgrade with us as a software upgrade so our launch would be almost instantan

medical billing. he graduated from emory before receiving his masters and ph.d. of economics at the university of wisconsin-madison. tom nickels is executive vice president for public policy of the american hospital associationrepresent approximate 43,000 individuals and had served nearly 5000 hospital and health care systems and health care providers. mr. nickels has been with american hospital association since 1994. he was director of the american college of emergency physicians in the washington office before that. senator collins would you like to introduce mr. mitchell? >> thank you mr. chairman and mr. chairman on behalf of all the members of the committee i welcome you back and it's great to see you looking so well. >> thank you. >> i very much appreciate the opportunity to introduce elizabeth mitchell. although she is testifying in her role as the president and ceo of the business group on health i want the committee to know that she is a native main are or do we hope is only temporarily living on the west coast. her for her work took her across the country ms. mitchell fled a multitude of health care organizations in the state of maine including serving as ceo of the maine health management coaliti