we'll take a look next with elizabeth cohen. let's leave the deals to hotels.com. perfect!ep, and no angry bears. up to 30% off. only at hotels.com. there's a new way to fight litter box odor. introducing tidy cats with glade tough odor solutions. two trusted names, one amazing product. >>> we've all heard the headlines, coffee is good for you or coffee is bad for you. he liz birth cohen is looking at these studies and sorts throughout all the coffee confusion. >> reporter: conflicting studies about coffee and your health are brewing up confusion. >> i don't know is it good for me, is it bad? should i drink it, should i not? >> i find this information confusing but i just drink it anyway. i drink like ten cups a day. >> reporter: a recent study says maybe she should learn to live without it or perhaps not quite so much of it. the study found that people under age 55 who drank four or more cups a day were 50% more likely to die during the course of the 16-year study and we're talking about eight ounce cups of coffee, not the giant drinks that many people like to order. coffe

. >> elizabeth cohen joins me with more on this story. will not speak about originally why anthony stokes was originally denied, but why are hearts denied to teenagers who desperately need them like anthony? >> well, pam, the problem is there are not enough hearts to go around and the doctors say a precious resource and they want to give them to people who will help them in the long term as possible. if you get a heart and you don't go to doctor's follow-up appoints or medications, you can die within weeks. getting a new heart can kill you if they don't take care of the heart, so they want the hearts to go to the people who will take care of them. here is the catch. it is subjective and the doctors can look at someone and say, we don't believe that you will take care of it, because in this case, maybe it is because they thought he had trouble in school or for some other reason, but it is a subjective decision as to whether they think that someone is going to listen to the doctor's orders. >> and he is a teenager, and if he had known that

i want to bring in our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen.e hear a number of the victims of the people stricken with measles were not vaccinated. this seems to be a story we're hearing again and again. >> it is. there was this message put out there years ago that somehow there was a link between vaccines and autism but study after study after study has been done, john, and there is no such this evening as thing as a leaning between vaccines and autism. if you want to believe this untruth and not vaccinate your own child, you're taking that risk for your own child and some might say you're allowed to do that and your child might die. but you're also taking a risk that other children might die because your unvaccinated child are going to play with those children and other children might die. people might say the decision is down right selfish. >> we're talking about measles. you don't hear about people getting measles. how dangerous is it if you do come down with it? >> it's very dangerous. if you look at a thousand people who had measles, one

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elizabeth cohen joins us now to talk a little bit more about this. l right, elizabeth, i've already had just about four cups of coffee today, does that mean i'm doomed? >> pamela, you've hit the magic number. this study says that if you drink four or more cups of coffee a day that your death rate goes up by about 50%, if you're looking at people under the age of 55. so they're saying, yes, it does seem to be associated with an early death. but they also say we don't necessarily know it's the coffee. maybe people who drink as much coffee as you do, pamela, have other issues too. obviously this isn't your issue, but maybe people who drink a lot of coffee also eat a lot, or eat the wrong things. it's also a possibility that it's the coffee. so this certainly gives you pause. maybe you should stop at that fourth cup. >> yeah, maybe, or the third cup. >> or the third. >> maybe the second cup. so why is it have to do with age? do we know -- it's under 55, right? why is it that it's worse for people under that age range? >> it is interesting. it looks like i

first my friend and colleague elizabeth cohen found a disturbing sdisturb ing example of what we're talking about in kentucky. >> reporter: on the surface, kentucky children's hospital is all kittens, murals and smiling faces, but inside there's a secret. last august 6-month-old connor wilson died after having heart surgery. >> his lips were blue, his eyelids were blue, his fingers were blue. >> reporter: and another baby ray shawn lewis smith died after heart surgeries. newborn wailen rainy went into heart failure. he barely survived. jackson russell had heart surgery and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospital had to fix it. >> he said there was a lot of scar tissue and infection that was left behind. >> reporter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis to say the least so in october kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunkett, on temporary leave. now the question is, were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies

joining us now to explain this more is our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, first off, what do we know about bo biden's status? >> we really don't know much. we know that he had this recent episode of disorientation and weakness. we know he's being evaluated at md anderson, which is a renowned cancer center. that's all they do. i think it is important, it is significant where he is. he is being evaluated at a cancer center. we don't know what that means, but we do know that that's important. >> now, one of the other things we do know is that he had a mild stroke in 2010. a lot of times if someone is ill, you look back to past afflictions they've had. so we know that about him. obviously he was very young when that happened. could this be something that is related or does it seem unlikely? >> right, i mean, he's only 44 now so he was even younger when he had that stroke. it is possible that it's related. i know we don't usually think of cancer and strokes as being related but several times of cancer, including some blood cancers, can cause strokes. s

. >> so joining me now to talk about this, senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen.ou're listening to these concerns, autism, vaccinating the very young, bundling of the shots. is any of that valid? >> every respected authority says vaccinate your children. you are not causing autism or any other kind of harm. vaccinate your children. you're doing it for two reasons. you're doing it to protect your child and you're also doing it to protect other children because, of course, children give each other these diseases. i'm going to be a little bit harsh here. if you decide not to vaccinate your child, that's your choice, right? you want to put your child at risk for dieing, that's your choice, but you know what, you're hurting other children, too, and it's just selfish. >> measles is obviously very serious. the u.s. has nearly eradicated it. most of us have not seen a case. >> that's right. you get some red dots on your face. >> chicken positi een pox. >> it's a huge deal. before we had routine vaccination in the world, people would die. 2.6 million people would die every

>> elizabeth cohen, thank you. before we go, i want you to see this insane

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first, this report from our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. >> reporter: high water temperatures, low water levels. the ideal breeding ground for this brain eating amoeba. health officials in florida issuing warning to be wary when swimming, jumping or diving. it's rare but they can go up the nose and into the brain causing meningitis. zach is battling the disease at miami children's hospital after contracting while knee boarding. >> he's fighting. she's strong. >> reporter: on facebook his brother said he had surgery to remove pressure from his brain. cheers of supports from his teammates. >> everybody needs to keep on praying and stay positive. >> reporter: nearly everyone who gets this infection dies. in the past 50 years only three people have survived. most cently 12-year-old cay lee who is out of a coma and in fair condition. >> i'm going to get to take her home someday is amazing. >> reporter: doctors credit her survival to this experimental amoeba drug. they sent the drug to miami to help zach. >> he is be number four. that's what we're hoping. we're hoping for him to be

that's why elizabeth cohen is here to explain. what is this new cap going to say?ly simple, you can't miss it. it will say that this product contains acetaminophen is a big problem in this country. responsible for 56,000 emergency room visits every year and about 500 deaths. now, some of those are intentional. people are actually trying to hurt themselves, but many are accidental. kate? >> we all know an overdose means you're taking too much. it clearly says on the bottle how much you should take over a certain period of time. why are they concerned these overdoses are happening so often? >> some people disregard the directions. if it says take one, people think taking two, three or four is better. some people don't realize they're getting acetaminophen in tylenol and other products. let's say you had surgery and your doctor prescribes percocet and it has acetaminophen and you don't even know it. at the end of the evening you're uncomfortable and you want to take nyquil. you probably don't even realize you have gotten a triple dose and if you do that for about a we

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen explains how much is too much. y, elizabeth. >> brooke, more than four cups of coffee a day may be bad to you, according to this new study out from the mayo clinic. they said the people who drank that much coffee were more likely to die during the course of the study. if you're looking at people under the age of 55, they were about 50% more likely to die. these are four eight-ounce cups of coffee. not the big venti cups so many people are drinking these days. what does this study mean for coffee drinkers? there are plenty of studies out there showing coffee is good for you. this is just one study. it may not actually be the coffee that was the problem. it may be the coffee drinkers also tend to eat lots of unhealthy foods. who knows. bottom line, according to the study author, is that if you really want to play it safe, what you can do is just drink fewer than four cups of coffee a day. brooke? >> okay. i'm two and done in the morning. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much for that. >>> coming up next, this unbelieva

. >> let's bring in elizabeth cohen. what does this kind of hormone therapy involve and how much does it cost? >> it involves taking two or three different types of hormones, don, over the course of your lifetime. and it's not actually all that expensive. it's about less than $100 a month. and the hormones, when you're going from male to female, will do things like give you softer skin, will decrease the amount of muscle that you have, will promote breast growth. but it's a lifelong commitment. >> so army officials say in a statement, elizabeth, that while inmates at ft. leavenworth have access to mental health professionals, a person does not provide hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery. so what's the reasoning why the prison should provide this treatment? >> the arguments that people have given, and this has come up before, many times, is look, this person has a psychological issue and some would see that as a medical issue. so if you have a diabetic in your prison, you would give them insulin. some people would

joining me now, our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen.ust explain to us as we hear these different words, mustard, sarin, vx. these are all nerve gases. what do they do to a person? >> let's say sarin and vx first. sarin we've talked about -- we're talked about it lately. vx is very similar. they're both nerve gases. they are highly fatal. they can kill within minutes if you get a high enough dose. >> within minutes. >> within minutes. so it causes first your pupils go down to a little pinpoint. nausea, vomiting, paralysis and finally death. mustard gas is a little bit different. mustard gas usually is not fatal. but what it does is it causes blisters on your skin, your mouth, sort of all the way down into your lungs. and it can cause cancer later in life. it can also cause blindness. so it's a little bit different, but all of them, you know, extremely destructive and horrible. >> we heard from the secretary of state saying it is this chemical weapon stockpile, it's the largest in all of the middle east. we're talking, just to make sure e

i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to talk about this. how serious do we want to think this is? i want to emphasis how much we don't know. i think what has a lot of people concerned and asking questions is the hospital he's at which is md anderson in houston which is a cancer center. that's all they do. when we think of disorientation an weakness we don't think of cancer but that can happen. we know that mr. biden had a stroke back in 2010. i know this sounds weird but strokes and cancer can be related. there's some cancers that can lead to you having a stroke. this is all a maybe, maybe, maybe. again, we don't know what's going on. but there is concern when you hear that someone is being evaluated at a center this only evaluate and treat cancer. that's all they do. >> do we know what kind of tests or things they might be looking at? >> we don't. everything we know is what you read. we don't know what kind of tests he's having done. one of the questions they're going to ask is the stroke that he had in 2010 and the disorientation and weakness he had more recently, are those two

there will now be a warning on the cap that reads "contains asset taseat so men fin" and elizabeth cohens sometimes what happens is people taking tylenol while they are taking other products that contain acetaminophen end up taking too much of that painkiller. >>> well, we have some wild surveillance video out of florida. the broward county sheriff's office says they're searching for three men who shot at a home filled with young children. the white suv is seen in this video dropping off suspects before they opened fire using two hand guns and an assault rifle. fortunately, no one was injured. >>> uh-oh, spaghettios, campbell's soup has to recall 1,920 cans or about 1,740 pounds of spaghettios with meatballs, yes, because they were actually labeled as swanson's chicken broth. we spoke to the company and they tell us that the recall is small, only about 80 cases. the mislabeled products were sold in texas, oklahoma, arkansas, louisiana, and mississippi. that one is hard to believe. >>> okay. our fifth story "outfront," president obama's contradiction, has the president changed his tune on

elizabeth cohen is in atlanta this morning to help us figure it out.ade a lot of people wonderer if i'm drinking a lot of coffee day after day what is it going to do to me? we have answers for you. conflicting studies about coffee and your health are brewing up confusion. >> is it good for me? is it bad? should i drink it? should i not? >> i find the information confusing but i drink it anyway. >> reporter: a recent study says maybe she should learn to live without it or perhaps not so much of it. the study found people under age 55 were 50% more likely to die during the course of the 16-year study. we are talking about 8-ounce cups of coffee. coffee might hurt you by increasing your chances of getting gastrointestinal cancer. >> could cause irregular heart rhythms cht. >> reporter: several other studies found coffee is good for you, decreasing the likelihood of alzheimer's, type ii diabetes. >> when you smell coffee you know it is time to get your day going. >> reporter: some doctors say head your best. maybe instead of ten cups a day try sticking to

elizabeth cohen, cnn, atlanta. >> all right, elizabeth, thanks for that. >> at least it comes out theere. we'll follow that story. >>> coming up next on "new day" an $11 billion merger between american airlines and u.s. airways blocked. why the justice department is so determined to kill the deal before it gets off the ground. > and what does that mean for ticket prices for you? richard quest is here to break it down. >>> you remember this video, right, the bus beatdown, all this backlash against the driver, the driver should have things. this story is becoming more and more about who we haven't heard from, like the parents, like the school, like anti-bullying advocates. what's going on in this story. we'll let you know what a juvenile judge had to say. the postal service is critical to our economy. delivering mail, medicine and packages, yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service and want to layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more. >> reporter: meet hali bin musenshari ae's not even 21 years old. he hasn't been able to leave his bedroom for more than two years. these pictures show the dramatic moment when he was taken out of his home using a forklift. part of it had to be demolished to bring him out. >> it's obviously an extreme case, the chances that this guy is really sick are really high. >> reporter: it's unclear how he got to be this severely obese but dr. robert lustighas a theory. >> i don't think can he eat himself to 1,345 pounds but he can certainly drink himself to it. liquid calories don't stimulate satiety like solid calories. it's hot there and goes down easy. >> reporter: liquids don't fill you up the way food does so perhaps he never felt satisfied. saudi arabia's king abdullah is paying for a military plane to transport shari to riyad to undergo medical treatment. step one, says lustig, a restrictive diet, not weight loss surgery. >> you can't do surgery on them now. it's too dangerous. you basically would have to keep him in the hosp

elizabeth cohen takes a look at how this invisible killer claims its victim. >> one of the most lethalgas is that they're colorless, odorless, tasteless. sadly, people don't know that the nerve gas has hit them until they start having symptoms. they can include pupils that go down to a pinpoint. people have difficulty seeing headaches, convulsions and respiratory failure. some people can survive a nerve gas attack. that's probably because they didn't inhale a particularly high concentration and/or because they were able to run away and get to a place where there was no gas. if you inhale a high concentration, if you can't get away, the nerve gas can be lethal within minutes. what it does to your body, your glands and your muscles have off switches. the nerve gas turns off that off switch so your muscles and glands are constantly working. that's not good. it can cause exhaustion, paralysis and eventually death. now there is an antidote. it's an injection called atropine and works best when taken as soon as possible. brianna, victor? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you. >>> 15-year-old student

elizabeth cohen takes a closer look. >> there's a lot of conflicting information about there about coffeeng studies about coffee and your health are brewing up confusion. >> is it good for me? is it bad? should i drink it, should i not? >> i find the information confusing but i just drink it anyway. i drink like ten cups a day. >> a recent study says maybe she should learn to live without it, or perhaps not quite so much of it. the study found that people under age 55 who drank four or more cups a day were 50% more like tloi die during the course of the 16-year study. we're talking about eight-ounce cups of coffee. coffee might hurt you by increasing your chances of gettiget ing gastrointestinal coffee. plus -- >> the stimulant could cause irreguli irregular heart rhythms. >> decreasing the likelihood that you'll get diabetes, type 2 alzheimer's and other diseases. >> it's time to get your day going. >> some doctors say you can hedge your bets. >> mark twain once said everything in moderation. >> so maybe instead of ten cups a day, try sticking to fewer than four. maybe in this most recen

cnn's senior correspondent elizabeth cohen with the report. >> reporter: on the surface kentucky children's hospital is all kittens and murals. last august six month old connor died after having heart surgery. >> his lips were blue and eyelids were blue. >> ray shonn smith died after heart surgeries. >> this one went into heart failure. he barely survived. jackson russell had heart surgery and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospital had to fix it. >> he said there was a lot of scar tissue and infection that was left behind. >> reporter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis, to say the least, so in october kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunket, on temporary leave. now the question is were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies died or had complications at kentucky children's? no one knows. why? because the hospital refuses to say. heart programs at many other children's hospitals report their mortality rate

let's bring in elizabeth cohen. we know the questions, what there the answers?ch fries that giving them whole wheat spaghetti and steamed broccoli just isn't cutting it. the nation's new healthier school lunches, championed by first lady michelle obama are packed with more fruits and vegetables, but getting a failing grade from some students. several school districts are dropping out of the government subsidized lunch program after just one year because they say students are rejecting the healthier fare. >> the children didn't have options and it's not what they wanted to eat. so, frequently they stopped buying lover from us. >> reporter: the school district says it lost $30,000 in three months. >> it began to be not cost effective for us to continue in that program. >> reporter: across the nation, some kids say calorie limits are too harsh. many of them bringing food from home. ♪ high school students in kansas made this youtube video complete with famed fainting. federal health officials say the vast majority of schools are meeting the new guidelines which set

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in atlanta with the latest. >> as you said, this is anow twice in one summer, a child's life is on the line just because they went swimming. >> reporter: high water temperatur temperatures, low water levels, a breeding ground for this ameba. health officials now issuing a warning to be weary when jumping into water with these conditions. it's rare, but the amebas can go up the nose and into the brain. this 12-year-old is battling the disease after contracting it while knee boarding in fresh water near his home. >> he's strong. >> reporter: on facebook his brother says zachary had surgery to remove pressure from his brain. at a vigil tuesday, cheers of support from zachary's baseball teammates. >> everybody needs to keep on praying and stay positive. >> reporter: nearly everyone. who gets this infection dies. in the past 50 years only three people have survived. most recently 12-year-old caylee hardig who is out of a coma. >> i'm going to take her home some day is amazing. >> reporter: doctors credit it to the experimental drug. the cdc se

i'm going to get to that point in just a minute, but first, my friend and colleague, elizabeth cohen, reporter: on the surface, kentucky children's hospital is all kittens, murals and smiling faces, but inside there's a secret. last august, 6-month-old connor wilson died after having heart surgery. >> his lips were blue, his eyelids were blue, his fingers were blue. >> reporter: and another baby, rayshawn lewis-smith died after heart surgeries. another newborn went into heart failure and barely survived. jackson russell had heart surgery, and his parents say it was botched and a surgeon at a different hospital had to fix it. >> he said there was scar tissue and infection left behind. >> reporter: all of this happened within eight weeks. it was a crisis, to say the least. so, in october, kentucky children's hospital, a part of the university of kentucky, stopped doing heart surgeries and put its chief heart surgeon, dr. mark plunkett, on temporary leave. now the question is, were these four babies the only ones who suffered? how many other babies died or had complications at kentucky c