dr. jon lapook. >> we decided on the pill. >> the birth control pill is 60 years old. or men. dr. stephanie page says it is about time. >> one of the issues for men is that they really have few options available. >> dr. page and colleagues showed a study showing a male birth control pill, mimics testosterone was safe. it dramatically lowered testosterone levels with no change in mood or sexual function end of the month. >> sex drive, maintaining muscle all the important male characteristics are maintained by the hormone that we are giving the men. >> but will it work as birth control? normally in men, hormones from the brain stimulate the production of testosterone and sperm. the male pill works by blocking the brain hormones, which lowers testosterone levels expected to shut down sperm production >> we know we need to block sperm production. the key is bringing down the sperm concentrations. >> social media weighed in. one woman writing, let's let our men take one for the team once. and one man tweeted, not sure relying on us boys to remember to take it is such a good

dr. jon lapook takes us to a n rbershop where customers are also getting much-needed medical checkups.me in one day at 6:00, and they were here already. te reporter: mark sims was in for his weekly morning cut when barber eric muhammad and a medical team ambushed him with a blood pressure cuff. >> i set him up. >> yeah, he set me up. >> reporter: sims was startled by the reading. >> it was sky high. it was 175 over 125. which is stroke bound. ter:eporter: sims was part of a study that turned barber shops into de facto clinics and barbers into health advocates. a> i think it's a win if we can just save one life. >> reporter: clients diagnosed with hypertension were prescribed medication and follow-up with pharmacists. muhammad helped recruit other perbers and is listed as a study te-author. after six months, men saw their blood pressure drop nearly 30 points. >> always good. >> reporter: 3,000 miles away, dr. joseph ravenell runs a health screening program for n.y.u. langone at new york city barbershops like harlem masters. there's a chess set, cushy chairs, and friendly faces. a lot le

dr. jon lapook.en minutes in the chair can possibly save your life. >> i came unone day, at 6:00, they were here already. >> mark simms was in for his weekly morning cut, when barber eric mohammad and medical team ambushed him with a blood pressure cuff. >> set him up. >> set me up. >> simms was startled by the reading. >> it was sky high. 175 over 125. which is stroke bound. >> simms was part of a study that turned barber shops into de facto clinics and barbers into health advocates. >>> win if we can save one life. >> clients diagnosed with hypertension were prescribed medication and follow-up with pharmacists. me h listed as a study co-author. after six months men saw their blood pressure drop nearly 30 points. >> always good. >> 3,000 miles away, dr. joseph ravanaugh, runs a new york barber shop. chess set. cushy chairs, friend leap faces. less intimidating that a doctor's office. this is definitely, higher than we would look to see. >> 65-year-old, john days a regular customer. >> look forward t

dr. jon lapook has the story. william strampel, the person response bum for supervising larry nassar abused of inappropriate sexual behavior himself. according to the come planlt. his ex-boss used his office to harass, discriminate, demean, sexually proposition and sexually assault female students. groping making sexual comments to students and possessing nude and seminude photos of women many appearing to be selfies of msu students. pornographic videos were found on his work computer. accused of neglecting his duty supervising nassar in jail for sexually abusing more than 250 young women including aly raissman. >> this tragedy could have been avoided. >> i couldn't have imagined that he was also a predator himself. but i knew he was definitely an enabler. >> in 2014, michigan state university student a. man day tomashow, filed a complaint against nassar for sexual abuse. an investigation cleared him. >> i personally was not only victimized by, that man, i was revictimized by msu when they had the the audacity to

dr. jon lapook with me to newark airport. >> if you just touch the screen you can pick up the measles virus if it happens to be there. the good news is somebody who's here today doesn't have to worry because the measles virus only lasts for two hours or less, either on a surface or in the air. >> reporter: so that's everyone who was here on march 12th needs to be concerned? >> they said it was within like 12:45 and like 9:00 or so. >> reporter: i was here. >> really? >> reporter: i was here. >> well, you look pretty good. were you immunized? >> reporter: i was immunized. >> and that's the best thing you can do. >> reporter: how do you know if you have it? >> it can be tricky because it can be just like any other virus. so you have a little bit of a sore throat, a runny note, maybe pink eye, then fever and then you can come down with that classic rash. one of the tricky things suck be infectious four to five days before you even come down with symptoms. people may not even know that they have the mays sxlz they're walking around and they're spreading it. >> reporter: people most at risk are

dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," bipartisan leaders from the senatentelligence committee are urging stronger election security. we'll talk with member james lankford. >>> plus dr. tara narula looks at the side effects of common medications. and in a more perfect union, what brought together an army veteran and a nashville musician. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm michelle griego. and i'm kenny choi. time is 4-- here's neda iranpour with a check of weather. >>> good morning, it is wednesday, march 21st. this is the beautiful bay bridge there. i'm michelle griego. it's wednesday, "hump day." >> yes. >> we are almost there. >> the weekend is almost here. good morning. i'm kenny choi. namaste. i took a yoga class today. it reminds, see the light in me. i see the light in you. nice way to start the day. >> we're not going to see much light today. it's still dark. even when the sun comes up, we can still feel it in o

dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: it's the same problem each year: making a vaccine against a flu virus is like trying to hit a moving target. >> it changes. it mutates just enough to get it out of the range of the vaccine. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci heads up vaccine research at the national institutes of health. he says we need a brand-new approach. >> we've been using this technology of inactivated virus that you grow in chicken eggs since the 1940s. this is antiquated. >> reporter: in the six to seven months it usually takes to create the vaccine using eggs, the virus can dramatically change. the solution: a universal flu vaccine that would protect against multiple strains of the virus for years, perhaps a lifetime. flu viruses are made up of molecules that look like must have been rooms with heads and stalks. the current vaccine only targets the head, but that part is unstable, frequently changing. the result: a flu vaccine that only works some of the time. the focus of research now is the bottom, or the stalk, which doesn't change, giving the vaccine a chance to work. >> we might not e

dr. jon lapook. >> have you decided on the pill? ter: the birth control pill is nearly 60 years old. there has never been one for men, and dr. stephanie page says it's about time. >> one of the issues for men is that they really have very few options available. >> reporter: dr. page and colleagues conducted a small study showing a male birth control pill, which mimics testosterone, was safe when given daily for a month. it dramatically lowered testosterone levels with no change in mood or sexual function at the end of the month. >> sex drive, maintaining muscle, all of those important male characteristics are maintained by the hormone that we're giving the men. >> reporter: but will it work as birth control? normally in men, hormones from the brain stimulate the production of testosterone and sperm. the male pill works by blocking those brain hormones, which then lowers testosterone levels and is expected to shut down sperm production. >> we know we need to really block sperm production, so the key here is really bringing down the sp

dr. jon lapook. >> it's the biggest all-star competition in the whole entire world. >> reporter: last monthere was a mumps scare at a national cheerleading competition in dallas. they were told they may have been exposed with the highly contagious virus after a competitor came down with the mumps. the texas department of health says no related cases have been reported so far. but at james madison university in harrisonburg, virginia, there have been 24 confirmed cases since january. >> a health scare on the men's basketball team postpones their upcoming games. >> reporter: health officials are asking students to get immunized if their vaccinations are not up to date. even so, most recent outbreaks have been in young, vaccinated adults. a report out today found that immunity after mumps vaccination lasted an average of 27 years, and a quarter of people lose their protection after only eight years. children get two doses by the age of six. the mumps virus causes fever, aches and pains, and puffy cheeks from swollen salivary glands. although most cases resolve, complications do occur in up to

dr. jon lapook. >> it's the biggest all star competition in the world. >> last month there was a mumps scarea cheerleading competition in dallas. more than 25,000 participants and coaches were told they may have been exposed to heightly contagious virus after a competitor came down with the mumps. the texas department of health says, no related cases have been reported so far. but a james madison university in harrisonburg, virginia, there have been 24 confirmed cases since january. >> health scare on the men's basketball team postpones. >> health officials are asking students to get imnietzed if their vaccinations are not up to date. even so most outbreaks have been in young, vaccinated adults. a report out today found that immunity after mumps vaccination lasts average of 27 years. and a quarter of people lose their protection after only eight years. children get two doses by the age of 6. the mumps virus causes fever. aches, pains and puffy cheeks from swollen sal very glands. although most cases resolve, complications do occur in up to 10% of adolescents and adults. the authors of today'

dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: it's the same problem each year, making a vaccine against a flu virus is like trying to hit a moving target. >> it changes. it mutates just enough to get it out of the range of the vaccine. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci heads up vaccine research at the national institutes of health. he says we need a brand new approach. >> we've been using this technology of inactivated virus that you grow in chicken eggs since the 1940s. this is antiquated. >> reporter: in the six to seven months it usually takes to create the vaccine using eggs, the virus can dramatically change. the solution? a universal flu vaccine that would protect against multiple strains of the virus for years, perhaps a lifetime. flu viruses are made up of molecules that look like mushrooms, with heads and stalks. the current vaccine only targets the head. but that part is unstable, frequently changing. the result? a flu vaccine that only works some of the time. the focus of research now is the bottom, or the stalk, which doesn't change, giving the vaccine a chance to work. >> we might not ever get a

dr. jon lapook works at an out patient facility that closely monitors. >> i think the patients are beingan outpatient surgery facility, i think it's reasonable to say are you a part owner of that. >> if the answer is yes? >> you have to go back and forth, do i really need this? why am i doing it in this facility versus another facility? is it just as safe? >> perhaps the most profiled was joan rivers who stopped breathing in 2014. her daughter melissa filed a malpractice suit saying the doctors took cell phone pictures of the sedated star and fumbled in their responses. the two sides reached a settlement in 2016. they had to dig hart to learn about the cases we hadn't heard about. >> it shouldn't take a team to answer these basic questions. there really should be something for patients to turn to find out what is the safest center in my area. >> reporter: they agree they need a better system for reporting problems and a simpler way for patients to compare the price and quality of care. >> we're not about trying to hide from an adverse event because the only way you're going learn from it

dr. jon lapook has covered this story extensively from the very beginning. jon, good morning. >> good morning. in his position as dean, he oversaw michigan state university sports medicine clinic which included larry nassar. in december, strampel announced he was taking a leave of absence due to health issues. he has long faced criticism from victims about how he allegedly handled their complaints. >> i knew he had abused me. i reported it. >> reporter: in 2014, amanda t thomashow said larry nassar sexually abused her during an examine at michigan. >> michigan state university had the acausety to tell me. >> reporter: an investigation had cleared nassar but did not share its full conclusion with her. she was unaware the school told for nassar like having another person in the room during sensitive procedures and limiting skin to skin contact. >> larry nassar was cleared to practice again under new guidelines that were never actually enforced. >> reporter: according to an msu police investigation last year, strampel said he did not see the need to check up on

dr. jon lapook works at an outpatient facility that closely follows the standards of a hospital.ients should worry about doctor's financial interests. >> i think if patients are being recommended to an outpatient surgical facility it's a perfectly reasonable question to say are you a part owner of that. >> reporter: if the answer is yes? >> you have to perhaps go back and forth about do i really need this, why am i doing it in this facility versus another facility. is it just as safe for me to do it in the outpatient setting as the inpatient setting. >> reporter: perhaps the most high-profile surgery center death was that of joan rivers who stopped breathe during a procedure in 2014. her daughter melissa filed a malpractice suit claiming doctors took cell phone pictures of the sedated star and fumbled their response to the crisis. the two sides reached a settlement in 2016. the "usa today" network and kaiser health news team had to dig hard to learn about the cases we hadn't heard about. >> it shouldn't take a national team of investigative journalists to answer these basic quest

dr. jon lapook has reported on the challenges of determining if a driver is high on pot.nsportation habits of kids who were out of school a year or two. >> yes. >> what did it find? >> well, it's frightening these numbers, right. i mean it turns out that they're 19 or 20 years old, and one-third are driving in a car with somebody who's impaired. what's especially worrisome is that that is a predictor for themselves in the future driving impaired. >> they do america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation there's a driving simulator in iowa that i visited for the piece for "60 minutes" 18 months ago. there's more weaving. there's decreased reaction time. your judgment is impaired. you may drive slower than normally. i spoke to one of the sheriffs. he said i pull somebody over for suspected driving while stoned. the guy said, how fast was i going, and the sheriff says, ten miles an hour. >> they don't know they're impaired. isn't that part of the problem? >> with marijuana, with cannabis, they suspect it more. alcohol is more they under god, indivisible, with y