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senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us. elizabeth, fist of all, what does this mean for women who have breast cancer now? >> what the fda did yesterday will likely mean that women who want to keep taking avastin or want to start avastin will have to pay for it out of their own pocket because insurers will say, well, geez, the fda didn't approve it, if that's what ends up happening, doesn't put it on their list of approved drugs for metastatic breast cancer. we don't want to pay for it. it's $90,000 a year. >> that's so tough. >> most people can't afford that. >> some breast cancer survivors are not big fans of this. what are they saying? >> we heard from the woman who said, this saved my life. keep it on the market. other breast cancer patients say, the data is clear that this drug does not prolong life. why are you having it out there? it just raises false hopes. let's hear from one of them. >> it does not significantly keep the disease at bay. it surely is not a cure and it does not extend life. the drug does raise false e

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elizabeth cohen, interesting segment with you here today.ting close to a quarter at the top of the hours. actress angelina jolie visiting the syrian border as violence is escalating there in syria. our arwa damon is there. she'll tell us what's happening. [ bell chiming ] [ male announcer ] want to pump up your gas mileage? come to meineke for our free fuel-efficiency check and you'll say...my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> at least five people dead, dozens more wounded as protests unfolded across syria again today, defying the country's military crackdown. tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of some of syria's largest cities in what has become a weekly show of defiance against president bashar al assad. >>> also, traes angelina jolie has been visiting refugee camps on the turkish side of the border. she's at the camps in her role as the u.n.'s goodwill ambassador for refugees. cnn's arwa damon is there. >> reporter: j.j., behind me is the camp that angelina jolie visited, where she spent around 2 1/2 hours speaking to refugee

elizabeth cohen, thank you. elizabeth mentioned some of the other countries here take some of these steps. and i just want to give a bigger perspective because we know the united states may have been the first country in the world actually to put any kind of warning labels on cigarettes, but since then more than 30 countries have resorted to using graphic warnings on tobacco products. and canada started using graphic warnings, like elizabeth was just talking about, back in 2001. and just last year they made them even more graphic, more disturbing, and they now have to cover 75% of your cigarette package. i want to go to louie pru. he is the acting director of health canada's tobacco directorate. he is in ottawa. louie, good to see you. we thought who could we talk to to give better perspective, and we wanted to go to you. and as we mentioned, some of the images in canada are even so disturbing we can't even show them here on cnn. they're just that graphic. as i mentioned, your country's been doing this for ten ye

our elizabeth cohen is there. actually, just came out of the courtroom.with sonny haas and our legal analyst. how about first let's start with you. tell us what happened with regard to generics. >> these decisions just down. i understand we have video for this first case that i think is really important in explaining this story. there's a woman in minnesota. years ago before she took a certain drug, she was a fully functioning woman. however, she then took a generic version of an acid reflux drug. so this is a healthy woman who had acid reflux. after she took it, i hope we have this video, look what happened. she developed a terrible neurological disorder. now, her family then found out that the brand name version of this drug, the same thing was happening to people and the makers of the brand name drug pulled it off the market. and so her family said, what's up with that? how come you let the generic one stay on there? we would have never given it to her if we had known that. so she sued. but now it's gone to the highest court in the land and the supreme

i must say as a parent i don't always adhere to that rule. >> elizabeth cohen, interesting.guess. >>> and just when you got comfortable and a hanavigating internet, get ready for change. coming up next on reporter roulette, silicon valley correspondent dan, what is the deal here? >> the internet corporation for names and numbers -- yes, there is a body that regulates this stuff in terms of domain names on the internet, they have decided they are going to open up the flood gates and say that the end of the dot com era is over. so essentially you could have a dot whatever you want. you could have a dot brooke baldwin. it will cost you. $185,000 to get that, plus $25 thou thou ,000 to maintain it. so it's for the well heeled businesses and obviously individuals with a lot of cash in their pockets. >> i can't promise i have that kind of money, but if i wanted to register a dot brooke baldwin, is there a very narrow window in which i can register? >> you have to do it between january and april of next year, and this could be complicated stuff because you could have 65 characters

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>> elizabeth cohen, great advice.ery much. >> reporter: thanks. >>> top of the hour, i'm suzanne malveaux and want to get you up to speed -- heavy fighting rocks yemen's capital before dawn today as the country inches closer to all-out civil war. the government is battling three opponents. anti-government protesters, tribal fighters and islamic militants. several generals who defected say the regime targeted them with four missiles last night. the government is denying it. [ chanting ] >>> in syria, the death of a 13-year-old boy brings new life into the anti-government movement. amateur video shows women and children on the streets protesting his treatment. video of the boy's brutally tortured body was posted on youtube. >>> a criminal trial for former egyptian president hosni mubarak is now scheduled to begin on august 3rd. he is charged in the deaths of anti-government protesters this past winter. mubarak is in custody in a hospital treated for heart troubles and high blood pressure. >>> casey anthony's brother lee

cnn senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us from washington, d.c.s understand this. first, before we get to that, i want to ask about the ruling a few hours ago at the u.s. supreme court about generic drugs. what should we know? >> reporter: there is a woman that took a jgeneric drug, and she was a healthy grandmother and played with her grandchildren and was doing well and took a generic drug for acid reflux and developed a severe neurological disorder. she has trouble talking even. she thought based on the scientific evidence out there they should have had a stronger label, but the court decided against her, and they said no generic drug companies do not have to update their libls with additional information, and brand names do but generic companies don't so she lost her case. this is pertinent, because you know, pretty much all of us will take a generic drug at some point in time. >> why shouldn't they be held to the same standard as a brand name drug? >> the court said generic drugs are inexpensivnexpensive, and ie for a reason because they don'

we want to bring in our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, to talk about that. kind of trouble is medicare in at this point? >> as you said, everyone agrees that medicare's in trouble. it's in pretty big trouble. take a look at these numbers. it's kind of losing money by the minute. right now, it's spending about $519 billion. that's in 2010. in 2020, that spending goes up to $929 billion. that is a huge increase in just ten years. >> we expect that there are certain solutions republicans are proposing that folks will like. what do we get from the republicans? >> let's take a look at the proposal from congressman paul ryan, because that's gotten a lot of attention. it really is quite simple. the way that it would work is that senior citizens would be given a voucher by uncle sam. the way that it works now, you turn 65 and you just get medicare. instead, this would be a voucher and it would say here's money, miss medicare marlene, go spend it the way that you see best fit to get your health care. that's very different from the way medicare is done right now. >> d

let's go to elizabeth cohen. f all, what do we know about these three patients here in the united states? >> wolf, what we know is that all three of them have recently traveled to hamburg, germany. and that's the reason why officials think that these are likely cases. they have come down with a syndrome that is the dreaded complication of e. coli. it can devastate kidneys, people often die from it. wolf? >> how concerned should we actually be? are we seeing more cases of what is called this hus strain in jur europe. >> there's no reason for panic. this strain has not been found in the united states. these three people contracted it, if they have it, in germany. and this disease rarely spreads from person to person. this is going to be something that we see that people get in europe and then travel here. >> so what can doctors do to fix this problem if you come down with it and deal with this bacteria? >> you know, wolf, unfortunately, they can't do much. they can't actually get to the bacteria. if you give people

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen with us right now. >> let's take a look at the current warning is ineffective. so the government has decided you know what? let's do this instead. i mean, you can't get much more arresting than that. a dead guy with the caption, warning, smoking can kill you. how about this? cigarettes cause cancer. those are pretty nasty looking teeth there. you can't ignore that photo. cigarettes are addictive. you mentioned the tracheotomy hole. and smoking can harm your children. they are really hoping that this is going to stop these numbers. 1 out of 5 american adults smoke cigarettes. 443,000 tobacco-related deaths per year. they are hoping that these photos make a difference. >> it's interesting. i mean, you talk about the warning labels. when you go to other countries, they already have this. you see some in canada and other places. they have this. is there any study or numbers that show that it actually helps when the warning labels are that graphic and large? >> you know what is interesting? i thought there would be studies that say smoking rates are c

elizabeth cohen joins us. this is so controversial. we know the fate of the drug now. what have you been able to find out. >> first of all, excuse me my voice. i'm recovering from laryngitis. it seems like the committee is saying they don't think it is safe and effective for women with advanced breast cancer. the reason it's important is if the fda commissioner agrees and says it doesn't work or isn't safe for women, insurance may not pay for it and the drug costs about $90,000. hard linen can afford to pay for it on their own. >> very quickly, there are breast cancer survivors who aren't sad to hear the news. >> some survivors say, look, the drug doesn't work. it was put out as false hope. it's not a bad thing so insurance may not pay for it. but a lot of women will be upset. >> appreciate the quick update. thank you. that does it for me. fred takes over now. >> a very busy wednesday this afternoon. let's get to the stories we're working on now. >> reporter: flames and nukes don't mix. that's what could happen in new mexico as a fast-moving wildfire inches kang rously

so we want to go to our medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. who are the worst offenders here?at food uses pesticide. yes, the industry uses pesticides. unless you are buying organic. they look to government data to see which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticides on them and they came up with a list. we'll start near you. these are the five fruits and vegetables that have the most pesticides on them. spinach was number five. and then we go with peaches. and then strawberries, and then celery, and then they say apples had the most pesticide. 92% of apples had two pesticides on them. >> really? >> what is wrong with pesticides? are they harmful? >> studies have linked pesticides to cancer and other problems. but the -- and this is a big "but," and they are at such low levels and will not cause you problems. >> can you rinse it off? >> you can rinse it off, and you will get some of it off. you will not necessarily get all of it off. there are a couple things you wanted to pay attention to. use lots of water. doesn't matter what temperature. use a scrub brush when appropri

. >> elizabeth cohen at the u.s. supreme court, thank you so much for that. >> thank you. >>> stocks are falling hard and fast today on fears the economic recovery is stalling. right now, the dow jones industrial is down 210 points. oil price res also plunging. the u.s. announced plans to release $30 million barrel from the strategic reserve today to ease libbal supplies disruption. >>> nabbed, a legendary and colorful mob boss will go to court in los angeles today. if fbi finally nailed "whitey" bulger. bulger stands indicted in 19 murders. he was a fixture on the fbi's 10 move wanted list whitey is caught? you have to be kidding me. you've heard all the stories, things he's done, corruption and all that. a lot of people say, oh, he's dead. maybe they don't want to see him get caught. he might take down the whole fbi if he starts talking. >>> in orlando, a defense close to the defense team says casey anthony's mother, cindy, may take the stand today to testify on her daughter's behalf. she has already testified for

our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. she has detailed.pictures very graphic and shocking. can you give us a sense of what the new warning labels are all about? >> yes, let's take a look. first, let's look at the old label just to show you, well, how boring it is. black and white text and the government itself calls it invisible and people are not paying attention. instead they will do a dead body, with a caption saying warning, smoking with kill you. it will take up half of the pack. and then disgusting teeth, and then one that says cigarettes are addictive and he has smoke blowing out of his neck. why are they doing this? the other warnings were quite dull. we have too high of a rate of smoking in the country. 1 out of 5 american adults smoke cigarettes and that's 443,000 tobacco-related deaths per year. >> i guess the question is, is there any information showing the warnings are affective. i spoke with somebody that said buy a case and put it on top of the cigarette pack and you don't have to see this stuff. >> that's an insightful com

we are joined by elizabeth cohen that says olive oil is a good thing.'s really terrific, right? even better than we thought. we talked about other kinds of diseases, but here what they did is this study looked at older people that had olive oil in their diet and then some and then a lot. the folks who ate a lot, like several times a day in salads or cooked with it, they had a 41% decreased risk of having a stroke. it's a huge decrease. it seems to be based on what they ate. >> that's fantastic. i love olive oil, by the way. are there other benefits? >> people also tend to have fewer heart attacks and less of certificate types of cancers and get alzheimer's less often. you can't go wrong. it's calories, so you wouldn't want to guzle it. >> what is good about it? >> the good fats are in olive oil and nuts and avocados and other foods, and then you get the not so good fats in butter, margarine and red meat. that's the division. >> i am going to make a salad when we get out of here. have a good weekend. >>> the streets of compton, california, known for gang

elizabeth cohen has been following this.re which says to me, i don't know what to think about this. >> they use the word possibly. >> that makes it better. >> cell phones possibly being a carcinogens for humans. this say big deal, the first time a big respected group said there might be a link here, a possible link here. before everyone said there's no there there. saying there is there there is a big deal. it puts sell phones in a category along with things like lead and car exhaust and chlo chlorophorm. >> how freaked out should i be? >> whatever damage you might have done is done. if you were on your cell phone 24/7 -- >> great, elizabeth. >> we don't know that damage was done. but if it was done, it's done. here's the other piece of good news. there's something you can do about the future. that is -- let me get my phone here. >> props. >> do not do this. all right? >> which i've been doing for the last 15 years. >> right. >> there's really no reason to be doing that. because we have these things called head sets. we need

first up is senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. getting some states to toughen anti-smoking laws will save lives. makes sense. >> we're always trying to save lives, right? and this is a relatively easy way to do it. so let me illustrate this for you. there are 22 states that have really tough anti-smoking laws. so we're going to show them to you in a sec. those have tough anti-smoking laws. the 27 states that don't, if they adopted them save lives, save money. >> that simple. >> that simple. >> how many lives are we talking? >> a lot of lives. talking almost 700,000 lives and over -- not a million, it's more than that. over, yes, over $1 million. over a five-year period. so that is a lot of lives and a lot of money. more than 700,000 lives, more than $1 billion to be saved. >> so given the savings, how do the laws work? >> well, the laws, what they do is put cigarette taxes, you know, higher taxes on cigarettes, and then they also say, all right, no smoking in restaurants, no smoking in workplaces. >> like new york, no smoking in t

senior correspondent elizabeth cohen has a lot of advice. should we empty the medicine cabinet?ful and they're pourlful which is good. powerful can also be bad. you want to use these correctly. >> what mistakes are people making in using these? >> making a couple of classic mistakes. people think wow if one is good, ten must be really good. people are ignoring dosage recommendations, the other thing people are doing is they're taking certain supplements before surgery that they shouldn't. it can cause problems. and also people just forget to tell their doctor they're taking certain supplements and some supplements can interact with medicines. >> are there certain specifics about some of these? >> i talked to some experts at the mayo clinic and elsewhere. tell me which ones should we be careful about. for example right here you have garl garlic. if you take garlic before surgery could you bleed out during surgery. so you have to tell your doctor, you'll be fine but you have to tell him. look at these vitamin b complex vitamins. those can interact with antibiotics if you're taking

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with the details to walk us through some of the new warning labels. >> first i want to show the current one. couldn't be more boring. black and white, text and it's kind of invisible on the pack of cigarettes. that's what the fda says, they used the word invisible. instead of invisible, they are doing this. half the cigarette pack, randi, half the cigarette pack, not some little tiny thing, this is real right here. the branding's here. picture of a dead guy. smoking can kill you. can't get more direct than that. warning, cigarettes cause cancer. >> that is so disturbing. >> cigarettes are addictive. >> these will be on one side of the package? >> both. >> oh, on both? >> front and back. 50% of the surface area. tobacco smoke can harm your children. why are they doing this? because one in five american adults smokes cigarettes, 443,000 people die every year from tobacco related death. >> is there any data or is it too early to show that such graphic warnings like this can be effective? >> other countries are way ahead of us. the

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