dr. howard koh.e'll go ahead and put the numbers up if you want to dial in we're talking about the national hiv/aids strategy. what about the drugs to combat aids and h.i.v.? have they been developed to a point where people think well, if i get it, then i'll just take a pill? guest: the gooze good news again is over the last years some 20 new drugs have been discovered and implemented and used by people for caring for this disease and treating this disease. that's the good news. it's still a devastating condition for many people, and there are many, many dimensions to this illness beyond the disease itself. so we've made a lot of progress but we have to do much more. host: how much is the federal government currently spending on h.i.v. prevention and medication, etc.? guest: well, we for this report put an assessment on all the resources that have been applied to this epidemic and some $19 billion have been put forward every year across the country for prevention, for education, for research, for tre

dr. howard. caller: good morning. there is a lot to be learned from the 9/11 attacks where had the e.p.a. telling the workers that the air quality was fine and now we find out that there are thousands of workers that worked on that pile that have respiratory problems. you had tens of thousands of mercury lamp fluorescent bulbs vain supportized -- vaporized, things that really hurt the people. host: can we learn something from 9/11? guest: definitely. this is really a great comment. the lessons that we have learned from the world trade center we are applying now in the gulf response for public health. and one of the issues that the call brought up is certainly one of the most serious ones in the world trade center where we didn't have, for instance, a list of all of the workers that were there. so, we are rostering all of the workers now in the gulf. we have rostered about 35,000 workers so far. we are also doing real-time exposure assessment. so we are not saying anything is safe as in the world trade center. we are d

dr. howard. caller: good morning. there is a lot to be learned from the 9/11 attacks where had the e.p.a. telling the workers that the air quality was fine and now we find out that there are thousands of workers that worked on that pile that have respiratory problems. you had tens of thousands of mercury lamp fluorescent bulbs vain supportized -- vaporid, things that really hurt the people. host: can we learn something from 9/11? guest: definitely. this is really a great comment. the lessons that we have learned from the world trade center we are applying now in the gulf response for public alth. and one of the issues that the call brought up is certainly one of the most serious ones in the world trade center where we didn't have, for instance, a list of all of the workers that were there. so, we are rostering all of the workers now in the gulf. we have rostered about 35,000 workers so far. we are also doing real-time exposure assessment. so we are not saying anything is safe as in the wld trade center. we are doing a

dr. howard koh. dr. koh. [applause] speech of thank you so much for that kind introduction and for your tremendous leadership on this issue. is such a great honor to work with you. let me a knowledge melody barnes who has been such a wonderful colleague and we are so proud to have her in the administration, doing so many efforts with respect to public health in this country and of course the great or wish to work with secretary sebelius of the department of health and human services. thank you for this great honor to be with you today for the unveiling of this important strategy. i also did want to recognize again dr. ron valdiserri. if you would stand up and wave and get some applause. [applause] >> we are very pleased to be with you today because the strategy has been informed by your efforts as you have heard her go the voices of many americans have shaped the strategy, voices of ople across the country who are advocating for it and living with hiv. and this strategy pays tribute to the many we have tragic

dr. john howard.r: one of my biggest concerns about the whole situation that i think is important to address for the future is that i have. there is an acoustic switch -- i have read there is an acoustic switch that would have cut it off polo the source, below the ground. the companies involved decided it was too expensive. the cost about half a million dollars. host: we're talking about public health with the oil spill. guest: that is all little outside my field of expertise. host: we will leave it there. lake charles, a democrat, you are on. caller: i have a question about the dispersant and how it was banned in other countries and they brought it to the united states to use on the gulf coast. we depend on our seafood and oil and gas to service the rest of the country. why did they need to use the dispersant? why not just let the oil come to the surface where it is easier to get to and will not miss of the environment as far as health hazards? they could take off the top of the water directly and pr

dr. howard koh. dr. koh.lause] speech of thank you so much for that kind introduction and for your tremendous leadership on this issue. is such a great honor to work with you. let me a knowledge melody barnes who has been such a wonderful colleague and we are so proud to have her in the administration, doing so many efforts with respect to public health in this country and of course the great or wish to wk with secretary sebelius of the department of health and human services. thank you for this great honor to be with you today for the unveiling of this important strategy. i also did want to recognize again dr. ron valdiserri. if you would stand up and wave and get some applause. [applause] >> we are very pleased to be with you today because the strategy has been informed by your efforts as you have heard her go the voices of many americans have shaped the strategy, voices of people across the country who are advocating for it and living with hiv. and this strategy pays tribute to the many we have tragically

dr. howard koh. we'll go ahead and put the numbers up if you want to dial in we're talking about the national hiv/aids strategy. what about the drugs to combat aids and h.i.v.? have they been developed to a point where people think well, if i get it, then i'll just take a pill? guest: the gooze good news again is over the last years some 20 new drugs have been discovered and implemented and used by people for caring for this disease and treating this disease. that's the good news. it's still a devastating condition for many people, and there are many, many dimensions to this illness beyond the disease itself. so we've made a lot of progress but we have to do much more. host: how much is the federal government currently spending on h.i.v. prevention and medication, etc.? guest: well, we for this report put an assessment on all the resources that have been applied to this epidemic and some $19 billion have been put forward every year across the country for prevention, for education, for research, for t

. >> larry: we welcome back howard bragman to "larry king live," in forred and ceo of 15 minutes, crisis management expert. dr. drew pinsky, host at vh1, addiction expert. and at the courthouse today. will jail change her, howard? >> god, i hope so. she really needs it. had so many chances, taking all the outside stimulus away, taking her ability to tweet away, taking the media away, all these voice is in her ears, i really really pray for her, it does. >> larry: at what point, doctor, does she accept she has a problem? when does that occur? >> if i could figure that out, i could win a nobel prize. that moment of making people willing is so difficult in addiction. people can't get well until they're willing to get well. for most people, it is disgust, it is a belief they are going to die if they don't change direction and sometimes it's a significant loss, like a loss offer freedom or loss of children. i do know plenty of people that do get sober in jail when they have a chance to think about the fact of what they've done and how they've gotten there but not the usual story. >> larry: do they need a crisis po

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dr. eric kandel, a nobel laureate, a professor at columbia university and a howard hughes medical investigatori am pleased once again to have him here to help me understd all about the brain. welcome back. >> thank you. you're doing very well understanding the brain. >> charlie: what a journey it is. tell me about today -- the disordered brain. >> last time, we discuss -- >> last time, we discussed psychiatric disorders. today we're going to discuss neurological disorders. disorders of the brain. one of the things youwant to explore is how are they different from one another. there are two fundamental differences. one in the nature of the symptoms. and two, in anatomical location. in terms of symptoms, there is overlap but from a simplified point of view, you could say that psychiatric disorders deal with enhancements, exaggerations of our everyday life. we all feel despondent periodically. we all feel hopeless and worthless when an experiment doesn't work. doesn't work. you see in depressed people. the mirror image when we have a wonderful roundtable discussion and we see an extension of that