dr. collins, dr. gottlieb for all joining us to discuss the ongoing work at nih and fda to implement the 21st century cures act and i also want to thank our colleagues diana degette and fred upton. the cures act tasks both of your agencies with implementing critical provisions and improving the discovery and development of new treatments and cures. at nih the law provided significant funding for the bo biden cancer moon shot initiative, the all of us research program and the brain initiative and at fda the law included provisions to improve the medical product review process as well as new authorities and funding to ensure the agency has the resources to recruit the best talent. at our hearing on this topic last november you both provided promising updates and i look forward to your continued work. as i said before, it's important to hold oversight hearings like these that allow us to learn directly from the administration how policies are being implemented. while i'm pleased that the subcommittee has

dr. collins. he started this hearing out with the remark about the immunotherapy and some of the dramatic things that have occurred and i just have predated our passage of the cures bill, but our former president of the united states in july of 2015 went public with the information that he had metastatic melanoma to the brain and to the liver and remembering my time in medical school, my initial thought was we will not have this individual with us by labor day, but it has really been dramatic to see him a year later deliver a speech at the democratic convention, a year and a half then present at the inauguration in january, 2017. i don't know what his clinical status is now, but it was truly dramatic and again allful you are to be congratulated -- all of you are to be congratulated for making that possible and hats off to former president carter for going public with the information and going forward with the clinical trial because that is the way information is gathered and learned. so again i fe

one of the people behind the research is dr ken collins, a marine biologist at southampton universitypening now. i have been a marine scientist for 50 years and, during that time, i've seen the english channel warm up byi degree centigrade, which does not sound much, but that has caused changes in a number of marine organisms, and fish have moved into the english channel, and are simply looking further afield, to the south, spain and portugal, and looked at the species that are almost on our doorstep, and likely to be encouraged by changing temperatures to come to us. what type of species are they? well, i mean, from the unusual, the greater hammerheads, to more tropical species, like the black tip and white tip shark. my concern really is that, whilst we're going to get different types of sharks in — around the uk, the total number, along with global shark populations, will actually decrease. basically, we are killing sharks faster than they can reproduce. i see. so, of course, that is a danger. the fear is that you will have a much lower number of sharks. are they so under threat th

dr. francis collins, who heads up the national institutes of health.rday on capitol hill, giving an update to the cancer moonshot initiative. we want to hear from you this morning. tony is in georgia. what is the impact on you, and what are you hoping for that the government can do to combat cancer? caller: i think what of the biggest problems we have in this country today is the fact that --rybody wants [indiscernible] i think the real problem is we want cures for this. i go to a place in atlanta, university.ry i'm under what they call a clinical trial program. it is an excellent program. a lot of people don't understand it. a lot of people are qualified for this program. it doesn't cost me a dime. no out-of-pocket expense other than i have to go down there and be monitored by these doctors, which is a great thing. they use this radiation , and they've almost killed the cancer cells in my body. now i'm waiting for an operation to have it taken out of my body. i appreciate you letting me speak. host: tony, why is this a study?l radiation as a therapy o

dr. mcguire. >> chairman collins, ranking member casey, and members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to share cdc's efforts to address alzheimer's disease and related dementias. my name is dr. lisa mcguire and i lead the alzheimer's disease and healthy aging program at the centers for disease control and prevention. alzheimer's is the only top ten cause of death in america that can't be prevented, cured, or even slowed. an estimated 5.7 million americans of all ages are living with alzheimer's in 2018. by 2050, we expect that number to rise to 14 million people. alzheimer's disease places a significant emotional and financial burden on people with the disease, their families and caregivers, and the health care system. until we have a cure for alzheimer's, cdc and its public health partners play a critical role in helping those 5.7 million people and their families. we will work closely with state and local public health agencies by providing technical assistance, up to date scientific knowledge, cognitive decline and care giving data and promoting effective interventions to improve t

dr. john torres has the story. >> reporter: ashley collins lives in arkansas where lyme disease is rare. so when her 6-year-old daughter tested positive for lyme last year, she was shocked. >> never crossed my mind that it would be a problem. >> reporter: tonight, a new warning from scientists, that ticks including those that carry lyme disease are spreading into new areas around the country. >> ticks are not just in the northeast and the upper midwest where we classically think they are. they are in the south, they are in the far west and that means these things are everywhere. >> reporter: a new study by the bay area lyme foundation analyzed more than 16,000 ticks from people across the country. most concerning, the black legged tick which transmits lyme was identified in 76 counties in 24 states. why are these ticks moving? >> probably due to climate change and then we even think that people are probably moving these ticks around. >> reporter: the best way to stop ticks, when going into wooded areas use bug spray that contains permetherin and keep socks tucked into your pants. so more

chairman collins: thank you very much, dr., and thank you for the work the cdc is doing. for more on the state perspective, i'm pleased to call on secretary osborne. : thank you forne the opportunity to testify at this important hearing. as i said before you -- as i sit before you, i and in all of the 500 advocates, including the pennsylvanians gathered here today and have spent this past day courageously sharing stories of love, devastation and hope for a world without alzheimer's. theecretary of aging for pennsylvania department of aging am humbled to join them as we raise our voices for all those impacted alzheimer's i -- impacted by alzheimer's. it atom wolf has made priority that we in pennsylvania's uphold -- that we in pennsylvania uphold the older with 3 million pennsylvanians aged 65 world are. that year of0, perfect vision, one in four pennsylvanians will be 60 years of age or older. in pennsylvania, we believe the alzheimer's trajectory can be influenced and changed. pennsylvania's current infrastructure, anchored by our state plan on aging which is required un

blood and ivy, paul collins describes the murder of dr.george parkman who went missing while visiting his alma mater, harvard medical school, in 1849 and the succeeding trial that captured the country's attention. and in bad call, mike scardino recalls his time working on a new york city ambulance in the 1960s. also being published this week, investor george gilder argueds that the golden age of google and other tech companies is coming to an end in life after google. and the 19th century american seamen and merchants who competed for profits in barrons of the sea. hook for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> i thought they were huffing glue like everyone else because, you know, they said these things that sounded utterly, supremely racist and bananas, but they would say that, you know, if we field the right candidate, our message -- which is, you know, close the borders, build a wall even, bring the troops home, all that kind of stuff -- they believed th

dr. kaufman: probably not. let's look at the republican party. andnumber of moderates, ford consider himself a moderate, have declined. collinse susan others like olympia snowe have left. i come from south carolina. lindsey graham has been under attack from the tea party on the grounds he is too willing to engage in bipartisanship. so, i think he would be seen as a rino at the very least. >> who do you think influenced gerald ford the most? dr. kaufman: who influenced gerald r ford the malls, i do not think there would be any single person. i would certainly, if i'm talking about people, but his parents up there. his upbringing. two individuals, for example, there strength and perseverance, his father's belief in not relying on the government for federal assistance, by pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, their belief in their spirituality, all of those things i think influenced ford. >> given ford's view of people, that he sought to find the good in them, was his pardon of richard nixon inevitable? dr. kaufman: historians do not like the word inevitability. -- i do not want to say inevitable, but i think, given the si

dr. kaufman: probably not. let's look at the republican party. , andumber of moderates ford was a moderate, has declined. people like susan collins, others like onvia snow have left. . come from south carolina lindsey graham has been under attack from the tea party on the grounds he is too willing to engage in bipartisanship. i think he would be seen as a rino at the very least. >> who do you think influenced gerald ford the most? i do not think there would be any single person. i would certainly, if i'm talking about people, but his parents up there. his upbringing. perseverance,nd his father's belief in not theirg on the government, belief in their spirituality, all of those things influenced ford. people, ford's view of that he sought to find the good in them, was his pardon of richard nixon inevitable? dr. kaufman: historians do not like the word inevitable. -- i do not want to say inevitable. i think given the situation, given who ford was, given his belief that whether it be nixon suffered enough or that the nation had to focus on more important issues, he had to get nixon behind him. in that respect, the pardon was inevita

dr. fauci: the answer is likely, but not nearly as much as the precision medicine associated with other infection. precision medicine, i always have a little good-natured bantering with francis collins, the director of nih, because the most precision medicine possible is in infectious disease. you get a microbe, you either prevent it or you treat it, period, end of case, as opposed to the more complicated metabolic and complicated issues. the answer to your question is yes, precision medicine is very, very much involved with infectious disease. get the correct microbe and treat it. that's about as precise as you can get. alison: so you are way ahead of us. dr. fauci: we passed you a long time ago. alison: ok. before we get to the last and final question, i want to mention a few upcoming events at the press club. on july 24 we have gretchen carlson and regina hopper here. they will talk -- now i've lost the topics, but gretchen has a new book out. >> [indiscernible] alison: oh, ok. thank you. i lost it. it disappeared again. sorry for the gracelessness. the piece of paper i had these on disappeared. dr. fauci: technology. alison: on july 26 gil klein is a former president, and will t

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