cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is live in greenville, south carolina.he spoke with lana kuykendall. take me through what happened to lana. just home from giving birth. noticed a spot on the back of her leg. then what? >> right. she noticed a spot. the way she described it was it was actually more of a line. like a strip is how she described it. lana is a nurse. and she's also a paramedic. she knew something strange was going on. she showed it to her husband, darren, who actually is also an emt. i spoke with darren yesterday and here's what he had to say. >> i was terrified, first of all. i couldn't get my thoughts together. tried to figure out what to do next. and i just knew it was going to be -- i knew from our friend, from the past, that was, you know, some bad stuff. just really bad. it moves very quickly. and, you know, time is of the essence. and you have to -- the surgeons have to be able to recognize it and take care of it. there's no sitting around and reading books and trying to figure out what it is. >> reporter: darren said that the surgeons

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elizabeth cohen joins us live with the details.already on market. >> it's already on the market for people who already have hiv. what is new here is the fda says it's okay to give it to people whory healthy right now but at a particularly high risk of getting hiv. for example, gay men. it decreases the risk by 62% they would get hiv in the future. >> some groups have lobbied against this drug. why? >> right. it sounds like a great drug. in many ways it is. the drug itself can cause problems. it can cause bone thinning and it can also cause kidney problems. and some groups are saying wait a minute, why are we giving a drug to people who can cause problems when we tell people, hey, use condoms. that way you won't get hiv. >> the next question that comes up with new medications, how much will it cost? >> right. it's about $1200 a month. so that's pretty steep. and it's interesting to see will insurance companies pay for that. it's not a guarantee that people won't get hiv just like condoms are not a guarantee that people won't get hiv

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. good morning, elizabeth. >> reporter: carol, let me tell you when what happened in arizona. cnn has learned that david kwiatkowsky was working at a hospital in arizona when his fellow employees found him passed out in the men's locker room. they found syringes on his person. he was in possession of syringes. they took him to the emergency room to treat him. when they tested him, he tested positi for cocaine and marijuana, and that hospital did report him to arizona authorities. legal authorities, law enforcement i should say. now, of course, as you said, this begs the question, how did he keep working in hospitals? we asked one man who knows him. >> ron cross went in for a heart procedure in february and now he's here at a new hampshire department of health meeting learning about hepatitis c. there's a possibility he might have caught it from this man, david kwiatkowsky, a technician at the hospital he went to. >> that guy was in the room, you know. he was there at my procedure. >> rep

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cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is live in greenville, south carolina.ith lana kuykendall. take me through what happened to lana. just home from giving birth. noticed a spot on the back of her leg. then what? >> right. she noticed a spot. the way she described it was it was actually more of a line. like a strip is how she described it. lana is a nurse. and she's also a paramedic. she knew something strange was going on. she showed it to her husband, darren, who actually is also an emt. i spoke with darren yesterday and here's what he had to say. >> i was terrified, first of all. i couldn't get my thoughts together. tried to figure out what to do next. and i just knew it was going to be -- i knew from our friend, from the past, that was, you know, some bad stuff. just really bad. it moves very quickly. and, you know, time is of the essence. and you have to -- the surgeons have to be able to recognize it and take care of it. there's no sitting around and reading books and trying to figure out what it is. >>eporter: darren said that the surgeons actually ou

elizabeth cohen, thank you. important development. >>> london, there's some very serious concerns that are being raised over olympic security. hundreds of athletes there are starting to arrive today the observer newspaper is now reporting that the last couple weeks several people on a terror watch list were waved through at the airport instead of being flagged. organizers there scrambling also to fill thousands of security jobs after the main contractor said they would not be able to provide 10,000 staff that they promised. joining us now from london, dan rivers. sounds like a hot mess. first of all, give us the update on these folks on the terror watch list. do we believe they are out there and in the country, just kind of walking around, or what do we know about that group? >> reporter: yeah, no, i think that the home office here, which is the equivalent of the department of homeland security, is very firmly saying, absolutely not. there is no evidence that they've got that people on the terror watch list have

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen in boston now.us more. >> fredricka, what we are learning is pretty incredible. what we are learning and i talked to someone yesterday that one of the patients who now needs to be tested in new hampshire, and he said that he knew him not only from the hospital, but he also knew him socially outside of the hospital, and he said that the minute he heard about the drug diversion where health care workers use drugs meant for patients and the minute he heard about drug diversion he thought of david. >> i suspected, but i never thought i would be right. >> so when you heard of drug diversion, you thought of david? >> almost immediately. >> why? >> his oddness. i mean, i don't have anything else to say, but it is that i thought he was an odd guy. >> now ron cross, the man we just met, he has tested negative for the hep tie sis so far, but he won't know until next month whether he is negative for sure, because it can take about six months for these tests to work the way they are supposed to. >> my goodness.

elizabeth cohen joins us. how well does this drug work?t was just approved. let's take a look at the numbers and the studies that they did of over 4,000 people on average they weighed about 226 pounds and they went down to 204 pounds. so that's a 23-pound weight loss and it lasted for the two years that they were on the drug. >> and elizabeth, what's in the pill? >> there's actually two different drugs in the pill, which is sort of interesting one of them is fentermine and topiramate, people who have epilepsy and migraines take it. one person said i have to remind myself to eat and could say no to things if someone offered a chocolate chip cookie, i could say eh. >> that's interesting, a lot of people lobbied against approval of qnexa, why is that? >> the reason why is because of its side effects. let's go over this, this is really, really important. what they found in the clinical trials some people who went on this drug, their heart rate went up. so there's a concern that that could lead to serious heart problems when taken over a period

>> elizabeth cohen reporting live in boston.nks. >>> this hour friends and family are gathering in aurora, colorado, for a.j. boyic's funeral. boik was one of the people killed in last friday's massacre. he was 18 years old and was called the life of the party. a friend gave us this video. that's boik dancing. he was watching "the dark knight rises" that night with his girlfriend when the shooter walked in. she says he saved her life. don lemon is in aurora, colorado. good morning, don. >> reporter: hey, good morning. it's good to see that video of him dancing, right, happier times, carol. so sad. can i tell you, too, that jonathan blunk who is 26, his body is going to be flown back to reno. he lives in reno, nevada. he served two tours in the persian gulf and he is in the nafy and wanted to reenlist in the navy. 26, father of two. his body will be flown back. then rebecca wingo, full service for her tonight here in aurora. of course, 32 years old, devoted mother of two. she was in the air force. but some of the people, carol, a

elizabeth cohen, thank you. >> thanks. >> and elizabeth will be back next hour.t. if you haven't seen it, it involves this disabled woman in this home, sort of being pulled and tugged by her hair. we'll talk about that and how difficult it is to know if you have someone in a home what to do, how to be an empowered patient or caregiver. >> and i think most of us will have to put a relative in a nursing home or some kind of home and you want to make sure they're not being abused there. >> my grandmother. >> a tough situation. >>> as iran steps up rhetoric, the u.s. is apparently rushing underwater drones to the persian gulf in case of a crisis. general mark timt walks me through it, next. matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. i'm barack obama, and i approved this message. i'm one of six children that my mother raised by herself, and so college was a dream when i was a kid. i didn't know how i was gonna to do it, but i knew i was gonna get that opportunity one day, and that

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joining me live from our world headquarters in atlanta, senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. a platform for worldwide discussion about this epidemic and ways to fight it. hard to fathom that it is more than 20 years and last held in the united states. that's been a major issue, of course, but what more can we expect from the health and treatment aspect here? >> zoraida a, what we are hearing a lot about at this conference is the cost. the drugs that changed this epidemic have been out for 15 years and what we're going to be hearing is that it's not reaching everyone it can because these drugs are expensive. $10,000 to $15,000 a year and secretary clinton, i would imagine, would be talk about how to get these drugs to more people and others will discuss that, as well. >> do you think they'll be able to accomplish that? >> i think that they will be able to get it to more people and one of the problems that's been happening is that it's been a bit of a piece meal approach so that this group is offering some kind of a grant or this group is off aering so some kin financial relief

elizabeth cohen is with us this morning.ood morning to you. >> good morning. >> how does this work? >> the drug is actually a combination of two different drugs, soledad, i don't know if you remember the phen phen drugs, one is an appetite suppressant and the other called topiramate, an anti-seizure medication that people are taking for epilepsy and migraines. i spoke to one woman in the clinical trials for the new drug and she said she just sometimes had to remind herself to eat. she said you know, before if someone offered her a chocolate chip cookie, she couldn't resist. while she was on the drug, she could say, eh, and pass it up. >> which sounds good if you're trying to diet and lose some weight. i guess the big question is, how much does it work? for people obviously it's not about losing five pounds, it's supposed to be really effective to get this approval. how much weight do people lose? >> on the drug people lost about 10% of their body weight. in this study, people weighed on average 227 pounds and got down to abo

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more. >> federal officials say he took powerful narcoticshem on himself and gave thoseinfected. authorities believe he infected 30 people in new hampshire in 2012. now we've learned that in 2010, he surrendered his license a as a radiologic tech. that's when the licensing board started investigating him will after an incident in a hospital in arizona. they are speak viewed interviewe and he told the licensing board i looked in and found dave lying on his back in the bathroom stall. i looked in the toilet and spotted a 5 cc syringe and needle floating in the water. the label was blue and he said i'm going to jail. while this arizona board was investigating him, he voluntarily surrendered his license and he wrote a letter to the board saying, i'm surrend surrendering my arizona license at will because i don't have the resources nor money to fight the accusations. and willing to wait to be eligible for reinstated in through three years. later that very same month, he went on to work in hospitals in philadelphia, kansas, georgia, and then new ha

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. >> cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen here.as quite an intro for you. >> i feel ready. >> we have to talk about this man. did he deliberately infect people? >> we don't know the details of what he did. but i was on the phone with a federal official this morning and he used the term "drug diversion". let's say i'm the health care worker and you're the patient. i have an anaesthetic that is given to people about to undergo a procedure. i give myself a little bit, and then i give you the rest. if i have hep tigatitis, you've it. i give myself all of it. refill it with saline. and then when it's time for your procedure, and carol is still awake, they go, oh, something must have gone wrong and they give you some more. and nobody really thinks much of it. >> how did they find out what happened? if he did something, he's not going to keep a record, right? >> well, it took them a while to find this out. we are talking about eighth states. you named seven, and an eighth that we don't know yet. it went on for years. in the federal affida

senior medical corporate elizabeth cohen is here. let's talk about qnexa. how does it work?ation of two drugs. it's a combination of phentermine and then an anti-seizure medication that people use for migraines and epilepsy. one is an appetite suppressant and the other one sort of works on the brain to change appetite centers. >> once you take it, it suppresses your appetite and does it work? >> yeah. you know, i talked to someone who took it and she said it was pretty amazing. she had to remind herself to eat. usually she loves chocolate chip cookies. and when she was on the pill, she could go, ah, i'll pass on it. i personally have never said ah, to a chocolate chip cookie, but that's what she said it felt like. and now let me give you the numbers. on average, the people who they studied weighed 227 pounds. when they were on it, they lost weight down to 204 pounds. that's a 23-pound loss. and they kept it off for two years. >> how long did they take it? >> the people on it took it for two years. you take it every day. >> so we know how phenphenturned out. not so good, righ

elizabeth cohen is here to explain what it is, and how success it it is. >> and immunotherapy is forpeanuts or eggs, and what they do is to give them a teeny, teeny tiny amount of what theyare allergic to, and then work their way up. like .0001 of an egg and then build up. >> and this is not like when they were tiny babies? >> no, not to babies at all. but what they found out is successful. it is a small study and 40 kids doing the immunotherapy and what they found is 30 of the 40 had a temporary cure. in other words, it worked, but it did not necessarily work forever, but 11 of them were cured and i say that in quotes, because i don't like using that word, but it worked long term. in other words, some of the kids who could not touch an egg were chowing down on eggs. >> e o, my gosh. >> that is great. that is amazing, because there is not a lot of great news for people out there with severe food allergies, so this is exciting. >> what about the other kids? >> either it did not work or they could not continue with the therapy, because it became dangerous for them. they actually develo

senior correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now.le got infected by these technicians using dirty needles on them? >> reporter: right, using needles or syringes he had already used. it's called drug diversion where a health care worker takes a drug meant for patient and uses it on him or herself. in a federal affidavit says that this man, alleges that this man would take a powerful, powerful narcotic that was meant for a patient, would use it on himself and then would sort of quietly replace that syringe with another one that was failed with saline that he had previously used. so far 30 people have stesed positive for help kiets c, the same strain he has. >> so the reason, i guess, according to that, he wasn't intentionally trying to spread hepatitis c, he was just trying to mask the fact that he was shooting himself with this painkiller. >> right. when you read the federal affidavit it becomes clear that he was -- you know, they seemed to think that he was an addict. i mean, when they finally found him, he was in a hotel room, intox

phone the commissioner of connecticut's department of developmental services, tarns macy and elizabeth cohenmace si, i want to begin with you. i'm appalled looking at it. i'm sure you are as well. >> i think you quoted me absolutely correctly. this is the most heinous crime i've ever witnessed. >> do you know if the victim's okay? what happened to this victim? >> i'm sorry? >> do you know if the victim's okay? >> yes. one of the first thing we did was get our state trooper assigned to us and we sent him with a copy of the video to the east hartford police to secure the evidence and to get them investigating. they've done a superb job. the next thing we did was go into the home immediately and do a check on everybody. we've put state staff into the home on a regular rotating basis and will be monitoring the home until we're satisfied that everything is operating properly. >> okay. elizabeth, jump in. >> mr. mace macy, there are other residents in this home. this abuse went on for a while before they found out about it. do you know if there were other abuses? >> there was a previous case that

. >>> this was a really disturbing and pretty unbelievable story that our elizabeth cohen told us about week. now we're learning that the medical technician accused of spreading hepatitis c may have spread the disease to thousands of people. health officials are now actually trying to track down all the patients he came in contact with in eight different states. and our elizabeth caught up with one person who was under his care. >> reporter: ron cross went in for a heart procedure in february. and now he is here at a new hampshire department of health meeting learning about hepatitis c. he might have caught it from this man, david kwiatkowski, a technician at the hospital he went to. >> that guy was in the room, you know, he was ere at my procedure. >> reporter: an fbi affidavit says kwiatkowski, who has hepatitis c, stole narcotics meant for patients like cross and then gave the patients infected syringes. it's called drug diversion. when cross heard there was a drug diversion problem at exet he immediately thought of kwiatkowski. >> i suspected but i never thought i would be right. i

. >> senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to talk to us more about this suspect.o working in new hampshire, he was -- apparently he worked at john hopkins in baltimore also. is that right? >> yes. >> i was having a hard time keeping track of all the various states. where do you even begin? >> you really nailed the problem here. between january, 2007 and just recently, this guy was working in eight states. we know of seven of them. you read them earlier. in many of these states we're talking multiple hospitals. this is a guy who traveled from state to state working in different places. this investigation gets very, very complicated. >> all right. you uncovered this lawsuit against the agency actually placed the -- found the suspect, right? >> right. there is an agency that placed him in hospitals. that is a common thing in medical care is that an agency will place nurses or technicians or whatever. so some of the people who say they've been infected by him have sued. i want to read you some of the lawsuits. >> okay. >> actually pretty horrifying details in there. a

elizabeth cohen has the story. >> ran did i, federal officials say david took narcotics meant for patientstients syringes affected with hepatitis c. authorities believe he infected 30 patients with hepatitis c in 2012. now we've learned in 2010, he surrendered his license in arizona when the licensing board there started investigating him after an incident at a hospital in arizona. they interviewed an employee who worked with kwikowski. the employee told the licensing board, i looked in and found dave lying on his back in the bathroom stall. i looked in the toimt and spotted a 5cc syringe and a needle floating in the water. tlabl was a blue fentanyl label. he then said, ex blah active, i am going to jail. while this arizona board was investigating kwikowski, he voluntarily ser rendered his license and he wrote a better to the board saying, i, david kwikowski is surrendering my license at will because i don't have the resources nor the money to fight these accusations and waiting to be eligible to be reinstated in thee years. later that very same month, he went on to work in hospitals in ph