>> as part of my research, i contacted the well-known clinical pharmacist dr. gene steiner. dr. gene, as he was known to the public, was the dr. oz of radio and he explained how his research led him to what's now become the number-one brain health supplement in the country-- procera avh. >> so what was it about the procera avh brain health formula? >> for me, it was the science. it had solid science behind the ingredients and a landmark clinical trial on the procera brain health formula itself. again, i'm here to tell you that we don't have to accept mental decline. it may even be reversible, but first, here are some of the more disturbing early signs and symptoms that you need to pay attention to. one: if you or someone close to you has noticed an increase in forgetfulness in the past six months. two-- and this relates to mental quickness: have you noticed a slowing in thinking or you have that tip of the tongue syndrome, which is becoming more common, meaning the words come to you more slowly. or three: perhaps you've noticed the increase in brain fog, you're more easily distra

myriad is not the only company that aggressively enforces its gene patents. dr. milunsky, a world-renowned geneticist, knows that firsthand. he's the head of boston university's center for human genetics. >> the detection of genes and gene defects have become critically important because of the massive advances in technology. >> and yet you're prohibited from looking at certain genes. >> we have been stopped from offering some 14 different tests for relatively common conditions. >> stopped by whom? >> i'm really not allowed to talk about them. i'm legally muzzled about that particular subject. >> he can't talk about it, but we can. milunsky can no longer perform gene tests for disorders like muscular dystrophy, polycystic kidney disease, and for a gene that can cause deafness. that's because a company called athena labs sent him a cease-and-desist letter when it found out he was testing people for genes they owned. >> a gene is a natural, living thing. how on earth can anyone allow patenting of a gene? >> he's particularly concerned because we've now reached a po

ball thanks too last week's supreme court rulinn about whether a company can hold patents on our genes. drollowing this for us this morning. m she joins us live from tampa. good morning dr. jo. good to have you here. tell us about what this is all a about now? >> well, good morning. certainly this all revolved around the brca gene mutation. angelina jolie showed she had a mutation and had a mastectomy hoping to decrease the risk of breast cancer.st c with this new ruling we've seenn companies step up to the platela and offer the testing for a lot less, a third of cost it was previously we're hearing about multiplek testing where there's multiple genes in the future. a lot of this is coming to past. medical ga nettists are going to lead the way. there are lots of foam talk to. >> speak of being at the tip of iceberg we usually think of adults but when about testing children? >> it's fascinating because when i would find out or disclose that someone had a close tral problem that was hereditary, her what about your children can you take to the pediatrician? pediatrics put owe you a position i

we do know something about the genes the that make us more prone to alzheimer's. we can thank dr. zy who has made this his life's work. ♪ >> hi. here i am playing the piano. but actually i'm an alzheimer's researcher, studying alzheimer's genes and trying to cure this disease. playing piano to try to get inspiration to do that. i was originally doing some of the first studies trying to find genes that caused disease back at a time when no one knew how to do it. i wanted to map the chromosome. i was doing it as a student. i wanted to get finished so i picked the smallest one which was chromosome 21. i remember that one day we were looking through this one gene we found and said, wow, this is matching up well. you had this ah-ha moment. i'm looking at probably the first alzheimer's gene. now we have a target for drug discovery. after i found the first alzheimer's gene my kbrand grandmother came down with alzheimer's disease. it literally steals who you are. there is no other disease that does that. you lose decades and decades of connections, memories and experiences that define who

. >> reporter: carriers of the braca gene mutations live with a high risk of cancer. dr.he dana-farber cancer patient. risk of the brca carriers seem to be 50 to 85%. >> what is it like to live with a loved one who has cancer and is that the reason why you decided to do this? >> when you lose someone to cancer, it is irrevocable. and this could be preventable. >> reporter: for lesley keays prevention means getting tested for genetic mutations to stop cancer before it strikes. magalie laguerre-wilkinson, cbs news, north attelborough, massachusetts. >> still ahead, the game of goalball. leveling the playing field. [ male announcer ] if you can clear a crowd but not your nasal congestion, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec-d®. powerful relief of nasal congestion and other allergy symptoms -- all in one pill. zyrtec-d®. at the pharmacy counter. and other allergy symptoms -- all in one pill. and you wouldn't have it any other way.e. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready

dr. francis collins has made that his life's work. >> my lab is looking for the cystic fibrosis gene backn the 1980s, the only way that you could move along a chromosome trying to find the right gene was called walking and we figured it would take about 20 years to get to where we wanted to be. i'm francis collins. i'm a physician, i'm a scientist and had the privilege of leading the human genome project and now i'm the director of the national institutes of health, so we invented a method called jumping where you could leap over stretches of dna, land in a new place and then ask that did i go too far, do i need to go again. it sped things up by about a factor of ten. there was a time where we had to use this kind of gadget to do dna sequencing. and it took a long time and you could only run a small number of samples. but now, look at this, this is a dna sequencing machine the size of a postage stamp that can sequence a genome in, you know, maybe three days. today, with the click of your mouse, you can call up that complete 6 billion letter long dna instruction book and you can compare wh

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dr. francis collins, the father of the gene sequencing that we now look in the future to treat literally every disease, this wonderful man who, mr. president, could make a fortune by moving out of scientific endeavors, has decided that's his life's work. but not only does dr. collins feel that way, but everyone that works there. they're doing things to help us, our families, our friends, america, and literally the world. and it's very, very sad to me that these wonderful people are dedicating their lives to not how much money they can make, but how much better they can make people feel and what they can do to cure diseases, are looking for other places. mr. president, my friend -- i'm sorry. one of my -- someone that works for me here in washington, his best friend is one of the leading experts, if not the leading expert in the world on a disease called melanoma. cancer. and he's not applying for grants anymore at n.i.h. because you can't do this work on a one- to two-year basis. it has to be a long term so you can do the research. not only that, mr. president, people that work there are

genes. synthetically created in a can still be panted. -- can still be patented. court watchers say that the decision will have a profound effect on medical and biotech industries. after four years as america's dr., surgeon general regina benjamin will step down next month. in any mill to staff, she said she plans to remain involved in public health. did the surgeon general will fill her job until he permanent replacement is named. americans confidence in commerce has fallen to an all-time low. a gallup low finds just 10% of americans have faith in the institution. that is last on the list of 16 institutions. the presidency in the courts fared better. the institution that americans have the most confidence in is the us military. in a historic moment this week on capitol hill, congressman jonathan dingle is the new longest serving.congressman he has been there in the house since the eisenhower administration. in the meantime, parents in southeast dc are outraged that they were not told about an out rake of scabies on campus -- an outbreak of scabies on campus. >> divided into two charter schools, an all boys school and excel academy, and all-girls school. that is where caleb goes to school. -- t

more women at risk for breast cancer being able to get access to gene testing and take control of their lives. >>> cbs news contributor dr. david agus is with us he leads the west side cancer center at usc. good morning. >> good morning, charlie and gayle. >> help us understand what the court said and what its impact is? >> so clearance thomas led the decision of the court and it was about this one gene brca the risk for breast cancer that angelina jolie had a faulty copy of. the implications are much more dramatic. what it said is you can't patent any human gene. so it opens up all of the genes for you, i and everybody in this country and other countries to be used in our everyday medicine. this is a landmark ruling in medicine. >> i remember david, last time you were here you were saying it was unfair this company had the patent to the gene. >> ethically and morally all of us knew it was the right thing to do. sometimes the courts are behind what we feel ethically, they don't have the right to do it. but the court made the decision here that equals the morality and the ethics which is it opens up dna. >> the argument b

genes cannot be patented. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin to talk about that angle and the chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. jeff, i want to start with you first here. this particularly involves a case with a company that identified the brak a1 brca 2 jean mutation. what did the court decide. >> what the court said unanimously in an opinion written by just clarence thomas, they had, look, this brac gene is part of the body and like an elbow and you can't patent something that everybody has and occurs naturally in the world. what you can patent is what you do to it, and how you test it. the actual part of the body itself which the patent office had granted a patent on, you can't do it. anyone, any company can now go to that gene and come up with its own test for breast cancer or anything else. that's the gist of the decision. >> very good explanation there, jeff. >> thank you, suzanne. >> pretty simple. the elbow analogy. i like that. sanjay, if you want to get tested, genetic testing here, how would that impact you? would it be cheaper now? more competition? what does this mean for people that

genes. some of it is having a little success, you know, breeds high expectations. >> wow, dr.u so much for taking the time to talk to us. best of luck to you. >> my pleasure. make sure you watch the documentary. >> we will. thank you so much to all of you for joining us. the doctor june 10th. go make some good memories this weekend. . >>> good morning, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. we have a busy show ahead, to say the very least. we begin this morning with what you say and what you do and who your friends are and maybe more importantly who your enemies are. it used to be that you could truftd that most of what you went about your private life would stay that way, private. but not anymore. a secret government operation has been monitoring the phone records of millions of us and now we're hearing it goes way beyond phone records to our internet habits and who we e-mail with

genes may not be patented. i want to talk about this with our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. couple questions.w -- how does this whole thing affect, i guess, drug companies trying to develop these new drugs to help people fight cancer, other life l threatening diseases. >> i think it makes a difference. there's been this thought for some time, if you can patent genes, one company, myriad, holds this patent. they had a monopoly on this gene testing. that was the only company that could do that. other companies can now do this. it brings down the price. makes it more accessible to people. it was expensive, several thousand dollars to get the testing done. i think that encouraging competition. depending on your perspective on that, i think overall for consumers they'll have cheaper, more accessible tests. myriad wanting to hold this. we spent 17 years, $500 million getting to this point. we want to hang on to as much as we can. you can't patent a gene. you have genes. i have genes. the particular gene with angelina jolie, fewer than 1% of women have that. they say that cannot be patented. what ca

dr. emanuel pointed to right now is how much power and money you grant to a corporation when you give them a patent on anything. >> that's true, but i think the patents on the genesso troubling because the gene is the fundamental thing that scientists want to work with. it's a part of our body. it tells us about our own risk, our parents' risk for various diseases. and so being able to lock up that element of human biology created this barrier for all of the follow-up innovation we want to see happen. >> doctor, do you think we're going to see more innovation in this area now that this has been returned to the commons where it should be? >> you're certainly going to see more tests for this particular genetic defect. so that is presumably going to actually stimulate more competition and more research. i think the big claim by people like myriad genetics and others is, well no one will try to find the gene, but that's wrong. as long as you can find the gene and then go on and make a copy dna and get a patent on that, and then get your test out first, i think there's still good financial incentive. it should be said a patent is not unlimited amount of time. most of

dr. sanjay gupta who will be talking about that next. >>> hey, there, and thanks for joining us. the supreme court just said you cannot put a patent on a natural human geneu. i tell you, there are huge implications for medical care starting with cancer patients. we'll explain. >>> then as you know, i always say to eat your fruits and veggies, but some of them aren't as good for you as they used to be. i'll tell you what that's all about and what to watch for. >>> but first, plan "b," the controversial morning-after pill, it's back in the headlines. the drug works to prevent pregnancy. if it's taken within three days of having sex. it works best taken within 24 hours. when the current version was approved, anyone had under 18 needed a prescription. but this spring a federal judge rejected the age restriction on plan "b." as recently as late april, the obama administration still wanted to require a prescription for anyone 14 or younger. but this week, they gave that up as well and said they would accept the ruling. so, starting soon, plan "b" will be available over the counter for everyone. >>> if you see this news with your kids, it's going to make a lot

dr. francis collins has made that his life's work. >> my lab is looking for the cystic fibrosis gene backt you could move along a chromosome trying to find the right gene was called walking, and we figured it would take about 20 years to get to where we wanted to be. i'm francis collins. i'm a physician, i'm a scientist. i've had the privilege of leading the human genome project and i'm now the director of the national institutes of health. so, we invented a method called jumping, where you could leap over stretches of dna, land in a new place and then ask, did i go too far? do i need to go again? it sped things up by about a factor of ten. there was a time where we had to use this kind of gadget to do dna sequencing, and it took a long time and you could only run a small number of samples. but now, look at this. this is a dna sequencing machine the size of a postage stamp that can sequence a genome in, you know, maybe three days. today with a click of your mouse, you could call up that complete 6 billion-letter-long dna instruction book and you can compare what that looks like in thousan

dr. hamburg, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >>> every day it seems we're talking about a gene that does this or that, but it was lessfirst found out the basic code for which our genes are written. dna in its famous double helix shape was discovered by francis crick and james watson. you may know that. pz hard to think of a more vital discovery. so, now as we celebrate its 60th anniversary, here is james watson as he talks about his life's work. >> i was inspired to go into science because i wanted to understand the world about me better. i wanted to know how birds could migrate. you know, i learned that when, you know, i was something like 8 years old. it seemed a big puzzle. dna was just becoming solvable. crick and i both thought it was solvab solvable. he was the first person i met i could talk to. you know, i had met people, but they didn't share my conviction that only dna was important. there are no monks copying things inside cells, so somehow, the cell had to have a way of copying its information. we knew it had a structure. the information suggested there was a helix, that they twisted around. i think early