dr. collins. dr. hamburg? >> thank you. i'm thankful to be in your district and with distinguished colleagues. there is huge value as is noted in getting out of washington and listening to people on the ground dealing with important issues from varying perspectives and this is a welcome opportunity to do so. and in a region that is rich with distinguished research institutions and wonderful health care facilities and systems. but very appropriate as was noted, the 21st century cures initiative has given us a chance to come together across disciplines, across sectors, across states. and across party lines. and in toward address one of the most important pressing problems our jeeryy most important pressing problems our jeer era and promise techno to people that we serve and it matters hugely for individuals, liberties and our nation. and it matters that in terms of the health and well-being and quality of life. but it matters in terms of the health care systems as well as the health of our economy. and i think we all recogniz

dr. collins? another one over here. >> some numbers to backup a conversation which is clearly the one that wakes me up in the middle of the night. if you look at and i age's spending potential for research which is the appropriation plus the affects of biomedical research, inflationary index, comparing 2003 to right now, at nih has lost 93% of its purchasing power. almost a quarter. numbers that reflect the time for a young scientist or mid career scientists, it relates to what your chances are if you send your best ideas to and i age -- nih, and as the best. the system in the world to review it and what priorities you assigned to it, will you get funded or not? karl june sent a proposal that in the past would have been considered innovative and risky and might have got a priority score that reflected some ambiguity in terms of belief of the peer review people whether this could work but would have gotten funded. pretty sure e did get funded. now because of this loss of purchasing power, your chan

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dr. collin moore knows exactly what taylor's going through. because as a 15-year-old baseball player, he too was diagnosed with cancer. >> i try to find every single day to hopefully the worst thing that could have happened to me in my life was my cancer. and that's at least 16 years ago. there's every other day since then is going to be a good day. when you open that door you don't don't know what you're going to walk into. donna ritchie began volunteering at all children's four years ago. after her own son was killed in a car crash. >> hi, good morning. she coping through her tragedy by helping others cope through theirs. >> with the xbox she god it all covered, don't you? yes. they are very, very sick. but we sure have some good hopeful outcomes on this floor. >> for taylor, that moment of escape came >> he called us out. we had to come see you. >> with a surprise visit from rascal flats. >> i was told they were just going to face time me. and then they just walked through the door. i was like holy cow. it turns out that a little bit of lau

dr. collins suspected she may have ebola. they tested her blood to find and she was positive. then the doctor and his colleagues ended up collecting blood from discarded blood tubes that would be incinerated in a the biohazard incinerator. the reason it is considered to be highly unethical to take samples from a patient in a clinical setting for research. so what they had to do was gather the rna from medical waste they've got the samples over to the institute i know if you are familiar with genomes sequencing i didn't know anything about it. but steven, the genome guy he is the talented chef offered a chance to compete on the bronco show top shelf. but turned it down it to went to africa to do research on the monkey pox which is the cousin of smallpox. let these people tend to be extremely precise with their hands was called in control dealing with complex recipes what microbiology is all about. so initially lifted 14 samples of human blood they had a technique where they took the blood plasma with a lot of destroyed red blood cells if you take a sample from the patient it wi

dr. collins showed, being able to see in a standardized way and put plans upside by side to compare i think is important. and lastly, one thing that wasn't mentioned is in person assistance call center, navigators and all our outreach attempts to help people and all of the information available on the website through local partners, through pharmacies, through physician's offices, i think, all of those together can help with the consumer education as well so that the choice is a reality. >> and also, of course, agents and brokers. >> yes. >> lot of them are out there to help and are eager to help. >> thank you. >> actually that triggers a followup, if i can. there have been stories in the national press last couple of days describing the outreach effort that the administration is involved in as low key, i guess, was the characterization. and being done with fewer resources. and i wonder whether you think those are fair characterizations and how are you trying to maximize the impact that you have? >> i would say that now that we are -- we have one year of the outreach under our belt, we lear

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dr. collins has done some really good work with us, what would make their job easier. and i think find some more money. the second thing is, so i took our team -- so, i'm a wolverine, right? sorry for you all. i know we're playing maryland tomorrow. but i'm a lot better -- i'm a lot happier guy when we win than not. but i took our team to the university of michigan a couple weeks ago. we spent a whole day at the medical school looking at the research they're doing, and it was just outstanding. i can remember going there back in the '90s as well and talking to scientists who actually identified the breast cancer gene and cell. i mean, just blew people away in terms of what he was able to do. we've got to have those young -- you know, we've got to have those researchers in their low 30s to be part of this process. so, whether it's set aside, whatever it is, we're -- we're -- diane and i are very aware of that. i think you'll see some changes to really encourage that younger researcher to be involved and stay involved, rather than looking at the -- just the folks who had

dr. collins showed, being able to see in a standardized way and put plans up side by side to be able to compare i think is important. and lastly, one thing that wasn't mentioned is in person assistance call center, navigators and all our outreach attempts to help people and all of the information available on the website through local partners, through pharmacies, through physician's offices, i think, all of those together can help with the consumer education as well so that the choice is a reality. >> and also, of course, agents and brokers. >> yes. >> a lot of them are out there to help and are eager to help. >> thank you. >> actually that triggers a follow-up, if i can. there have been stories in the national press last couple of days describing the outreach effort that the administration is involved in as, what, low key, i guess was the characterization and being done with fewer resources. and i wonder whether you think those are fair characterizations and how are you trying to maximize the impact that you have? >> i would say that now that we are -- we have one year of the outreach under o

dr. collins has done some good work, working with us to figure out what makes their job easier and i think find some more money. the second thing is, so i took our team. i'm a wol reveen, right? i know we're playing maryland on tomorrow but i'm a lot better -- i'm a happier guy when we win than not. but i took our team to the university of michigan a couple of weeks ago and spent a whole day at the medical school looking at the research they're doing. really it was just outstanding. i can remember going there back in the '90s, as well, and talked to the scientists who identified the breast cancer gene and cell to -- i mean, just blew people away in terms of what he was able to do. we have got to have those gentlemen. we have got to have the researchers and they're low 30s and others to be part of this process and so whether it's set aside, whatever it is, we're -- diane and i are aware of that and i think you will see changes to encourage that young research to be involved and stay involved rather than looking at just the folks that had been getting two or three grants and now in their 60s

dr. stern. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman. >> turn your mike on. >> good afternoon. mr. chairman, ranking member collins and distinguished members of the committee, it is a great honor to appear before you today. my name is dr. robert stern. i'm a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anatomy and neurobiology at boston university school of medicine. i'm also the director of the clinical core of the boston university alzheimer's disease center, 1 of 29 centers funded by the national institute on aging. for the past 24 25 years i have been conducting neuroscience research into issues pertaining to the aging brain. in particular, alzheimer's disease. since 2008 my research has focused on the long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes. in particular i've been studying the chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cte. cte is a progressive brain disease that can lead to dramatic changes in mood, behavior and cognition. eventually leading to dementia. it is similar to alzheimer's disease, but it is a unique disease. easily distinguished through postmortem neuropathological examination. origina

collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. a green light indicates the microphone is on. please bring your microphone close and press the button to turn it off when you're done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists are dr. david, chief of the division of sleep and director of the unit for experimental psychiatry at that time university of pennsylvania's perlman school of aaa and brian teft of the foundation for safety. dr. dinges. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological effects of drowsiness that make it so terrificcally dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. the first thing to remind those listening and looking at these slides are that as near as we know right now, all animals need to sleep, and humans are no exception. sleep an essential part of our health and survival. we have to do it on a daily basis. we have to achieve healthy sleep and we need sleep that is of ade

dr. francis collins about medical research funding and how to fight public health crisis like ebola. thanks, meg tirrell. we'll check in with her later today. >>> our guest host today is tom lee. tom, i was just noticing there's a list of 14 people the business insider asked earlier about their predictions for the s&p for the year. this came out on january 2nd. you came the closest. 2,075. kudos to you. that sounded incredibly bullish at that point. wow. he's looking for 2,075 at this point. that's a tricky thing to do coming up with numbers like that. >> yeah. or it's a lucky exercise, right? >> although we were talking off camera, what is it four out of five years at jpmorgan you were within 1% of the prediction? >> that's right. so we had a -- >> that sounds like more than luck, tom. >> yeah, maybe. i think this bull market has been fairly textbook in the sense that once you establish the low in the market path it's been pretty classic. in a way what's helped us is we looked back to get a feel for where we are in the cycle. >> if that's the case, where do you think we stand right

collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. light indicates the microphone is on. microphoneg your close and press the button to turn it off when you are done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists is the director of unit for experimental psychiatry at the university of pennsylvania's pearlman school medicine, and brian teft, at the aaasociate safety.or traffic >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological that make drowsiness it so terrifically dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. remind thoseng to listening and looking at these slides are that, as near as we now, all animals need to sleep. and humans are no exception. sleep is an essential part of our health and survival. have to do it on a daily basis and we have to achieve sleepy sleep and we need that is of adequate duration to ensure we don't have andntrolled drowsiness sleepiness during the daytime. next slide, please.

dr. bucks nice to meet you. collin now a free man after 21 days of home confinement. while quarantine high degree of confidence he wouldn't come down with ebola. the one concern was developing similar symptoms from eating something. >> i got day rea. because i ate something that didn't agree with me. and now i have to good to the hospital for evaluation. all the resources we get pulled into that because we would have to be if safe. >> now back to work or checked out the new simulation lab and health care staff treating ebola. he knows the protective gear was in tim dating to ebola patients in liberia. >> everybody is walking around full body suits. and tevrming smells of chlorine. for the patient themselves l i think that there was, it was fairly tear fichlingt could he see the fear in the eye of the patient's but times of joy as well when some recovered. >> we had teachers. shop keepers. a lot of fachlers because it was rural area. >> they were often banish from the villages because of the fear of ebola spreading. dr. dr. bucks hope more american doctors nurses go to

dr. robert milloy, price and collins. my thanks to all of the panelists who will be providing their perspectives and considerable expertise today. we are calling this forum awake, alert, alive because every driver must be awake and alert to operate a vehicle safely. sufficient, good-quality sleep to alertness and human performance, and yet so many americans are on the road lack ofsly impaired by sleep. we know this is a serious problem. yet current estimates may only point to the tip of the iceberg. numbers tell us that driver fatigue may directly 100,000te to over roadway crashes annually but these are only police reported crashes. there's some estimates that put the number of drowsing driver crashes at over a million a year. conservative estimates suggest a thousand people are killed annually in these crashes while other data indicate that the as 7500 livesany are lost each year due to drowsy driving. experts agree that the number of

collins. >> thank you, dr. price. presenters, when speaking, please push the button on the microphone. a green light indicates the microphone is on. please bring your microphone close and press the button to turn it off when you're done speaking. the first panel covers an introduction and the scope of the problem. our panelists are dr. david, chief of the division of sleep and director of the unit for experimental psychiatry at that time university of pennsylvania's perlman school of medicine and brian teft of the aaa foundation for safety. dr. dinges. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me to speak at this important meeting. i'm going to begin by setting the stage for the biological effects of drowsiness that make it so terrifically dangerous when we drive. next slide, please. the first thing to remind those listening and looking at these slides are that as near as we know right now, all animals need to sleep, and humans are no exception. sleep an essential part of our health and survival. we have to do it on a daily basis. we have to achieve healthy sleep and we need sleep that i