thank you, dr. lowy. thank you. dr. collins, if i was to ask you about a certain medical device, could you trace the lineage of the research so you could tell me a yes or no is nih was involved? dr. collins: i think we could in about 75% or so. in those questions you ask, yes, nih would play a role. not necessarily a direct proximal role to the actual product, but ideas listening -- ideas about therapeutics and the like. they involve nih research and the like. sen. durbin: we are all sitting here wearing clothing and suits in such, and somewhere is a label inside, where it is made. go to the market and we buy identity,nd have an producer and contents. i think it is about time the nih have a label. ,pplied to pharmaceuticals medical devices, so you can connect the device -- connect the dots. nih is part of the sourcing of what is happening. you have so many miraculous stories to tell. i don't know how many people would be able to identify what the letters nih c and four. i think it is time we do something about it. i wou

my partners, dr. tony schifflet and christine, saw him in the trauma center with the other doctors and nurses there. they treated him there and quickly brought him to the operating room where we performed surgery. in the operating room, he was i for ongoing hemorrhage from multiple locations. he received truly amazing anesthesia care from dr. eric and dr. scott frank. due to their great work we were able to get him through that procedure and we then took him underwent an additional procedure by dr. kahn to further control bleeding. from there we went to the intensive care unit where he got additional care under the direction of dr. chadi and remains in the i.c.u. today. yesterday we did an additional operation and dr. robert golden, our director much orthopedic trauma, did an operation to repair a broken bone in his leg. the congressman's status remains critical. we're encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours. we have controlled the internal bleeding and his vital signs have s

dr. jackson, board of trustees, thank you so very much for this great honor and privilege. i am honored to become a wildcat. [shouting] and it's a real honor and privilege to be with you as a celebrate the bethune-cookman university class of 2017. congratulations to all of you. [shouting] in addition to the graduates, there are so many people deserving of special recognition today, parents, grandparents -- i like to ask all the moms here celebrating the graduates to stand right now and be recognized. moms, please stand up. [applause] and all the dads, please stand up. [applause] grandparents, family members, friends of graduates, thank you for your effort in getting them to this point. first lady florence jackson, chairman petrock and members of the board, provost walrond and members of the administrative staff and faculty, and the entire bethune-cookman community, thank you for the important role you all play in making today possible for these students. mayor henry, thank you for those e

what is a good dr. do when the institution she works for tells her to abandon patients who obviously need her help? susan began to find her own answers to these questions by driving up the coast. her patients were scattered but many lived further up the coast in areas that had not been flooded by ike. these patients to have gotten a form letter. susan cannot reach them by telephone to the weeks after hurricane ike she began to climb into her volkswagen and drive out to find them. she was a custom to all the free time i can granted her and she began to fill with the practice of medicine. the weather was beautiful. sunny and cool, the most perfect october you could dream of after your town was destroyed. the felt like a vacation for a while, leaving the wreckage behind and driving to the seaside town listening to variations. these towns were starting the intact compared to galveston. the oak trees were alive the restaurants were open, people had lawn chairs and swing sets in their yard. susan would drive

dr.jamin greenberg. in emails, dr. greenberg wondered if we were seeing the 21st century version of polio. if it is in the early stages of evolution, he urged cdc, we can get ahead of it. i recently tracked down dr in dallas and ut southwestern medical center. what's the difference between what we're seeing with these children and polio? dr. greenberg: not much, which is interesting. sharyl: greenberg filled in a lot of blanks on the mysterious afflictions, where cdc would not. is it accurate to say this is less contagious than polio? dr. greenberg: we don't know yet. part of what we're lacking is the ability to go through a population and determine who has been exposed to this virus and who hasn't. we looked at the papers written 100 years ago, describing cases of poliomyelitis in the u.s., and we talked to colleagues from around the world who are actually part of teams who treat polio cases. and to all of our surprises, basically what we were seeing was a polio-like illness, but not fro

dr. francis collins talked about the work in diabetes, alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, cancer research, and opioid addiction. this is two hours. >> committee will come to order. the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success she's made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad you're here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their driver's license so good luck with that. good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. collins and the other institute directors here today. the budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. the $7.5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nati

dr. jack saba. this is such a mammoth injury that was done to the house majority whip, considering the high speed bullet like this that can devastate human tissue and bone. this went into the hip, shattered his pelvis. probably suffered some veins or arteries given the extend of the bleeding. that's been a major problem in the surgeries today, just to try to stem the bleeding. hopefully we'll get an update in greater detail about what his condition is and perhaps what the prognosis is. the reason for their being so sparse, because he was in critical condition. anybody that is suffered a major gunshot wound and has undergone major surgery is oftentimes placed in critical condition. but given the extent of the injuries, it's a situation where you expect the hospital doesn't want to get out ahead of themselves. they're handling this piece by piece, operation by operation. we know there's two operations and other procedures to date, more in store, but from dr. jack saba, we should get a bette

dr. brooks, donald trump has never been known for ideological consistency. he has at various times in his life called himself a liberal and a conservative. he changed party registrations six times before settling as a republican. is donald trump and his presidency, are they a boon to the conservative cause or a hindrance? dr. brooks: nobody knows. the truth of the matter is these populist uprisings in american politics don't happen that often. we don't have a lot of data. it really depends on the reaction conservatives have. that republicans have. we know that populism will largely evaporate in the next few years, depending on what happens in the bottom 80% of the economy. if we see more even growth going forward, paradoxically, even if donald trump that the popularity of populism would evaporate. at which time, we would see the popularity of conventional republicanism, or what is left of the conservative movement, so we don't know. it depends on the aspirational leadership the republican

now, dr.fox5 for the first time since four board members brought their complaint to the governor. he said basically bring on the investigation. they will not find anything and again, strongly denying the allegations. want to let you know that dr. maxwell's contract is up for renewal so the -- basically the documents, right, those are up for renewal july 1st and they would continue for another five years until june 30th of 2021. fox5 did reach out to county executive baker's office for comment on the naacp's letter but we have not received a response yet. live in prince george's county i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> 10 minutes before the hour. anti-semitic flyers are popping up in neighborhoods in this isn't the first time pamphlets like this have appeared in the area. the fliers appear to be from a self proclaimed white supremacist group and they say defending your duty a social duty. d.c. police say they're aware of the fliers and they're investigating it. >> happening today, it's t

thank you, dr. kanter, drdr. dr. bonomo and dr. foreman. >> the news for the warmbier family is sobering. doctors just giving us an indication of what they learned in the last 40 hours. the neurological condition has spontaneous eye opening and blinking but not engaged in any purposeful interaction. the mri, extensive loss of brain tissue. as for trauma, they say there's no sign of trauma to his body or his skull or his bones as you just heard. was it botulism? no suggestion that that is the case. the damage they suggest could have been done within minutes. want to bring in josh lederman that covers foreign policy for the associated press and dr. mark seagle, professor is from nyc medical center in new york. josh, hang on. i want the doctor's reaction to everything we just learned. your evaluation based on what you hear from there in cincinnati. >> a lot of words that they didn't speak spoke volumes. first of all, this is a tragic situation. the fact that his eyes are opening and blinking doesn't change the fact that this is a vege

dr. sanjay gupta. it airs tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> we continue on with hour two on this friday afternoon. i'm brooke baldwin. i want to let you know that we are waiting for this news conference to happen at any moment in washington, d.c., as we hear from the lead surgeon who has been treating republican congressman steve scalise. you know the story from this week. he was shot in his hip during the baseball practice on wednesday morning ahead of the big congressional baseball game. up to this point, all we've heard is that he is showing some improvement but he remains in critical condition at medstar washington hospital with several surgeries behind him and apparently several more to go. as soon as we see those doctors step behind the podium, we get more on his condition. >> it has been, moving on, though, that it's been two years since donald trump descended down that escalator in trump tower to the guilded lobby and announced that he was running for president and n

dr. frank pee cot of houston, texas, -- pee caulk, of houston, texas, who reported. my patient being 66 years old female with a history of high blood pressure and diabetes has a 4.8% risk of having a stroke within the next year that would leave her about a dill tated, unable to speak, wearing diapers in a nursing home for the rest of her marketedly shorten life versus taking a pill every day with the risk of a fatal bleed of anti-quag lakes of .009 per year. to summarize, this patient had a 4.8 annual stroke risk versus .0009 annual fatal bleeding risk. in medicine which call this a no-brainer. and takes the lower of the risks. so i went to the patient's bed side to have what i thought would be a relatively straightforward conversation. usually this is a five-minute exchange about what atreal fibrilation is and what would be the recommended treatment. i answered some of the questions, write a prescription, move on to the next patient. that's not how it went. i went to the bed side and tol

dr. paul mchugh did and he publish an article published in the "wall street journal" may 13 of 2016 and it was updated apparently from june 12 of 2014. ut this was ahead of psychiatry, dr. paul mchugh. the first hospital in america to have actually carried out sex change operations in america. these were liberal far-thinking, far-reaching ideas within surgery at johns hopkins. yes, we can cut off organs and change their sexuality. and dr. paul mchugh was hid of psychiatry at johns hop since. -- hopkins. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 10 minutes remaining. mr. gohmert: dr. mchugh points out and this is a man that knows the medical science. fleeted idea that is that may be gone tomorrow about someone's sexuality, but dr. mchugh says the transgender suffer from disorders familiar to a psychiatrist. the disorder assumption is that the individual differs from what seems given in nature, mainly one's maleness or femaleness. other disorders are held from those who suffer from where t

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dr. willie parker. then to south sudan where a government ethnic cleansing cacampaign threatens to into the country. >> i crossed into uganda at the beginning of this year w when government soldiers started attacking us. we just heard gunshots and took to the forest for safety. i children and g grandchildren scattered off in different directions and we were reunited just recently in this camp. amy: we will speak with journalist nick turse about his new article "ghost nation." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. after weeks of secret negotiations, republican senators thursday released a health care bill that would reduce key benefits for millions of americans. the better care reconciliation act would find a large capital gains tax cut for the rich by removing millions of low income and disabled people from medicaid. according to the center on budget policy pririorities, 33 billion dollars of the tax cuts woul

dr. suess? get ready, kids, for the dr. suess museum. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. today the details of that deadly attack that terrified london last night began to come into sharper focus as survivors told their stories. police have made arrests and say they're still searching for associates of the attackers, but they do believe they shot and killed all of the suspects directly involved last night. dozens were injured. and among those killed not only british citizens, but a french national and a canadian. today strong words from britain's prime minister theresa may. >> there is, to be frank, far too much tolerance of extremism in our country. enough is enough. in on how best to combat terrorism. our team has been reporting on this all day, and we begin tonight with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, kate. isis has just claimed responsibility for this attack, but it offered no proof that it was directly involved

dr. spaeth. >> we had an examination, and he said to me, "what is this, that all of you who have come to me in the past month and a half have one commonality. you've all taken purity first b-50 vitamins." >> narrator: it's estimated there are 85,000 dietary supplements for sale in the united states today. >> right here i have our liposomal d. >> so this is our bacopa. this is an herb that would be great for older individuals that are concerned about their memory. >> retains the essential nutrients like chromium.. >> narrator: with so many pitches and promises you might assume some government agency has approved them before allowing them onto the market. the fda does not do any review of dietary supplements before they come onto the market, and i think that all consumers need to understand this. >> narrator: no testing, no obligation to provide any evidence a product is effective or even safe. the one thing manufacturers do have to show is that they follow good manufacturing practices. the

dr. charles romine director of the technology laboratory at nist, he received a masters degree in mathematics and ph.d. in apply mathematics from the university of virginia. our third witness, mr. tuhill is a retired brigadier general in the united states air force. he's an adjunct professor of cybersecurity at carnegie mellon university. previously he was chosen by president obama to serve as the nation's chief information security officer. he received his bachelor's degree from penn state university and a master's degree in systems management and information systems from the university of southern california and our final witness today is dr. hugh thompson, chief technology officer for symantec. he also serves as an advisory board member for the anti-malware testing standards organization and on the editorial board of ieee security and privacy magazine. he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree and ph in applied mathematics from the florida institute of technology. we're gla

in every case dr.l removed these teachers from their buildings out of an abundance of caution and feared the employees would interfere with the investigation. we believe dr. maxwell should be held to the same standard imposed on these employees. meanwhile prince george's county school ceo dr. kevin maxwell spoke to fox5 exclusively yesterday morning after they approved the hiring of outside investigators to look into these allegations. >> i want to resolve this matter. there is no systemic corruption. there's nothing from me or anyone who is on my direct team that is telling people that they should do anything illegal. >> it's unclear when the investigation will start but dr. maxwell says he is fully cooperating. the state board of education president tells us they want it done soon. the state has to first go through aid hire an outside investigator. >> ♪ >> five minutes past the hour. time to talk a little weather and i guess we're saying hello again to summer. >> yes, after going weigh for just a few

over years of careful experiments and teststing, dr. manary and his colleagues developed a new formula. it's a precise blend ideal for bringing children back from the edge of starvation. the results are dramatic. 6 weeks after their first visit, alefa and pilirani return for one of their check-ups. jason: what we've seen over the course of the last 6 weeks has been, uh, really good progress. soso, we're hopeful that she'll come completely up to a healthy weight with this check. (woman speaking native language) second narrator: after 6 weeks of treatment, pilirani is on a promising path. he is now likely to remain healthy and avoid lingering consequences. dr. manary: 95% of these children are recovering. 95%. that is really something powerful. (singing in native language) second narrator: and thiss success rate comes at a fraction of the old therapy's cost. today, saving one child costs the project a total of about $25. project peanut butter has an ambitious vision: to save over 2 million children from severe malnutrition by 2015. woman:

dr.actor: "it's very common and in fact it's something that we're seeing more cases of because the proliferation of cell phones." chiropractor, dr. tom dunlap, says it happens after looking down too long on your computer, or cell phone. dr. tom dunlap, chiropractor: "it's an unnecessary strain on the neck, which pulls the neck bones out of place."it happened to erin kelley -- erin kelley, student: "i kind of noticed it at the end of my senior year of high school... beginning of my freshmen year of college, and i just... i had a lot of like lower neck pain and kind of in my back too."(doctor "so this right here shows what the normal curve in the neck is supposed to look like.)dr. dunlap told kelley she was diagnosed with text neck, and she was surprised. erin kelley: "i didn't know that like people my age have neck pains. i didn't know that i guess many people do."through x-rays, kelley found out the aligning of her neck had moved. erin kelley: "my neck was curved the wrong way and we were

dr.aura nelson. let me remind the witness that under our committee rules they must limit their oral statements to five minutes. but their entire statement will appear in the hearing record. our microphones are not automatic so you'll have to press that little button. and if it will kind of watch upfront the first four minutes , it's green, then it will turn yellow. then when you see red, please summarize. i will let the entire panel testify before we ask questions. this --i will recognize ms. macgregor for her testimony. welcome back. ms. macgregor: thank you. i have to say it's very good to be back here today. i absolutely loved working here with both majority and may -- and minority staff. i'm currently acting as secretary for land and minerals management at the department of the interior. our responsibility is the management of four bureaus, the office of surface mining, the bureau of ocean energy management, the bureau of safety and environmental enforcement and the bureau of lands ma

dr. balaji govindaswami. he is the chief of neonatology and director of neonatal intensive care unit and a volunteer with the march of dimes. and we're here to thank the march of dimes for all the good work they're doing. and you've helped be a leader in that field, as well. some of the history, first. i don't think people realize march of dimes has been around for a long time. >> as you probably have heard, cheryl, march of dimes was founded by president roosevelt to conquer the disease of polio, and that was eradicated a few decades ago. and then the march of dimes went on to fighting for the cause of birth defects and preventing birth defects in newborns by a variety of interventions in including folic acid supplementation and the national food and grain supply and in florida orange juice and more recently in bean flour. and in the last couple of decades, there's been a greater and growing focus on the health of pregnant women and the outcomes for infants at birth, healthy babies at bi

dr. jim thompson is a pediatric cardiologist but he also operates on adults who did surgery to close up the holes in the heart. >> about 20% of all adults have pfo. most people have small pfos and they'll go their whole life not knowing they have it. looking at young people who have strokes for no reason an d a stroke, about 50% of those patients have a pfo. >> dr. thompson told us you need to look for the pfo in a stroke patient. >> you can form a clot in one of your veins that you don't know about and that small clat can break off and travel up your vein, go into your heart and without the pfo it would go out to the lungs. but if that same clot pops through the small hole in the heart, it can go up to your brain and cause a stroke. >> dr. thompson is trying to raise awareness about looking for pfos after stroke because once you find the hole you can fix it. a small device is inserted with a catheter through the groin and up to the hole in the heart. >> open one side, pull it against the

respect. >> dr.ias, again, with his very caring and kind way, completely defused the situation. >> get you stabilized, take your meds. >> yeah. >> because it's just going to cause more problems. you're going to start getting write-ups. >> i don't want no more write-ups. >> that had been a very chaotic and draining episode but for dr. matias he acted like it was just a normal everyday routine. >> long day? >> yeah. actually, today my schedule was pretty clear. so i can catch up on paperwork and get things done. but i've been running from one thing to another since i got here. it's another day at i.s.p. >> that was usually his answer. just another day. but there was one time when he responded in a way that still is my favorite. it showed how just simple pleasures could get matias through a day at indiana state prison. >> all right. where are you off to now? >> you want to know the truth? i'm going to go back to my office, and in there i have a little cupcake. you know those little chocolate cupcakes th

in the final chapter, the final book that dr. king wrote, he talked about education. dr. martin luther king said that american schools do not know what to teach or how to teach. that's dr. king. guess he's controversial. because he pointed out something that should have been obvious to many of us. that this system is not broken. we keep referring to the public education system as broken. it ain't broken. it's working the way it was designed in 1635, to make sure that white kids from small communities gain access to the power that was believed to be theirs to hold. in an agrarian society, an agrarian calendar. when we say it was broken, maybe we don't understand the definition of broken. see, something is broken means it doesn't work. it's working. the same system was designed on the same time as another system we often refer to as broken. the justice system. also designed to make sure that black people in particular don't gain access to freedom. they're the same system. same ugly sisters of one another. same system designed to produce the same results they've been produci

dr. jois payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ] payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ]o payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ]y payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ]c payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ]e payne. dr. payne, please stand. [ applause ] >> i don't spend a lot of time calling out people, but at the end of the day none of us would be here if it weren't for her vision to create an organization that would really focus on the historically black college and university community. our members are the public hpcus and that is the state-supported institutions, but we represent all of the hpcu community and our advocacy, forts and our scholarship and our programattic, and i can't thank you enough for having the vision and it's a wonderful thing when you look to the person who founded the organization and they're alive, well and vibrant and we left africa and china on a 15-day tour and she outdid me, and i was, like, wow. i came in on the back end of the

nendorses dr. wralph northam. mr. northam would make the better governor. and virginia progressives agree. ralph northam is the only candidate who stood up to the nra after the virginia tech shooting. dr. northam led the fight to stop the republicans' transvaginal ultrasound law. k for thousands of families in virginia. ralph northam: making progress means taking on tough fights, and as governor, i won't let donald trump stand in our way. >>> there is another court file withing the president's name on it. this one with the attorney general's of dc and maryland. we tried to bring you this story a little bit ago now it is ready a complex case, and pete has the three things you need to know about it. >> reporter: first really get this you have to understand what are called amall youments u.s. constitution. the framers wanted our government to stay neutral they wrote this in there the president cannot accept gifts from other countries attorney's general from the district and maryland say the president's businesses break particularly the trump hotel on pennsylva

dr. helen caldicott on the health effects of nuclear radiation. coming up, on "earth focus." >> an earthquake and tsunami struck japan's fukushima nuclear power plantnt. three reactors suffered a meltdown. >> the japanese government has raised the crisis level at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant from 5 to 7. >> the confirmed death toll continues to climb. >> hundreds of thousands fled the radiation. many are still unable to return home. property damages and cleanup costs may run over $250 billion. >> the operator of the disabled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant has agreed to make provisional damage payments to residents living around the plant. >> what if it happened in the united states? who would pay? a catastrophe like fukushima could erase all existing insurance protection under federal law. it makes the u.s. liability compensation system look grossly inadequate. there are 104 nuclear power plants in the u.s. spread across 31 states. they produce 20% of our electrical po

sounds to me then, dr. gorka, we would be willing to engage in whatever we need to engage in, even if it is war, even if it is going head-to-head with the russians, if in fact they test us? >> we will not stand down if people in danger, our forces, our partners or our interests. the use of chemical weapons against any innocent civilians, be they syrians or otherwise is a threat to global security. can you imagine if those weapons get into the hands of groups like al qaeda or isis? we'll not let that happen. we'll not give the gameplan away. the message is very clear. don't do it, damascus. trish: dr. gorka, thank you very much. we'll continue that conversation coming up with general keane who also has some thoughts what to do in syria right now. but you heard it loud and clear from dr. sebastian gorka, sounded off on a warning to damascus and warning to everyone else, russia enconcluded, do not, do not mess with the united states of america. markets today up 151 points. we've got all of that, what is leadin

endorses dr. ralph northam. mr. northam would make the better governor.nd virginia progressives agree. ralph northam is the only candidate who stood up to the nra after the virginia tech shooting. dr. northam led the fight to stop the republicans' transvaginal ultrasound law. ralph is a leader for education, expanding pre-k for thousands of families in virginia. ralph northam: making progress means taking on tough fights, and as governor, i won't let donald trump stand in our way. >>> tonight on wusa9 news at 5:00, the debate over the name change proposal at jib stewart high school rages on. with school board members making their cases. >>> police many montgomery county -- in montgomery county hope new technology helps them track a cold case. >>> it's going to be hot today and isolated storm tomorrow. temperatures cooling back down to the 80s by wednesday. back up to >> summertime. that's it for wusa9 news at noon. we'll be back at 5:00. until then have a great afternoon and find an air conditioner and hug it. nendorses dr. wralph northam. mr. northam wou

nendorses dr. wralph northam. mr. northam would make the better governor.and virginia progressives agree. ralph northam is the only candidate who stood up to the nra after the virginia tech shooting. dr. northam led the fight to stop the republicans' transvaginal ultrasound law. ralph is a leader for education, expanding pre-k for thousands of making progress means taking on tough fights, and as governor, i won't let donald trump stand in our way. >>> fast forward tuesday, the president and vise president will meet with republican senators at the white house to discuss the status of repealing and replacing obamacare in the

the father of one of these patients said to dr. myer, why, why, why? dr. meyer said, what do you mean, why? he said why are you willing to do this for our children? his answer was, we're christians and we're americans. that's why. so it is the head and the heart of our country, our people. it does come to us to reach out and lift others up and help them. we can be the can't help them all, can't save them all. every tpwhuns a while there's a cry out and a need for a chain of individual miracles linked together without a connection, by the way, between steve meyer and lozaro, who met years ago when lozaro was going to college in iowa, he went to college in iowa he was put together by steve meyer's pastor and steve meyer and they got to know each other and they became friends. because of that relationship, steve meyer went to tanzania and became one of the lead people on mission to tanzania. if it hadn't been for that he never would have formed stem, tanzania education mission. if that hadn't been formed, the workers wouldn't have been behind the bus, and if