i want to bring in cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen and josh's mom, amy hardy. credible to think that a drug company has something to help and won't give it out. but, elizabeth, i want you to walk us through what josh is suffering from and how this drug from the medical perspective could help. >> right. so as you said, deb, he has a virus. and he has a suppressed immune system because of his cancer treatments. so that he really can't fight it off. and right now josh is in critical condition in the intensive care unit at st. jude's. i'm looking at these pictures. it just breaks your heart to say he is in heart failure and he is in kidney failure. i know you think -- all of us think, why can't they just give this little boy this drug? it's something called compassionate use. when a drug is being studied, a company can give it out. but it does mean that they, the company, have to pay for the drug. it means they have to use resources to distribute the drug. and this company is now saying no. so i want to introduce you to josh's mom, amy hardy, who joins us from memph

. >> elizabeth cohen joins me now. it is fascinating you have a test to predict that you are going to get it but nothing to prevent it from coming. are we any closer to treatment from alzheimer's? >> i spent the past couple of days asking people i know if you could get a test that you were destined to get it would you want it. some said it would be too difficult to live knowing it. >> would this affect insurance? >> you know you have lower levels of lipi dds? >> what have you learned? >> the same question has come up with gentlemetic testings. they discriminate against you because you carry the breast cancer gene. i imagine you would similar discussions around this test. democrat t doctors say look, we want to prevent alzheimer's disease but right now we don't know who is going to get it and who is not. they said if we had a group of patients who we knew were destined to get alzheimer's, we can try out our treatments to get it. >> a little bit of hope there. people who might know they were going to get it might be will

i want to bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen.ho is releasing the study and why? >> they and others describe this as game changing. it will be game changing if we can tell someone you're on the way to get alzheimer's, but there's a number of things to think about. so lets take a listen. a simple blood test was able to predict who would get alzheimer's. >> it's a wonderful piece of scien science, the most significant observation that we've been able to report in my entire scientific career. >> reporter: the researchers looked at the blood of healthy elderly people, checking for ten fatty molecules called lipids. those with lower levels of lipids, were more likely to develop alzheimer's or memory problems that precede alzheimer's. on average the change from healthy to sick took two years. the test was over 90% accurate. researchers and alzheimer's association point out more studies need to be done to check and see if this test works. even if all goes well, the test won't be in doctor's offices for several years. so who would want a

it's a first and senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has the story in the 2:00 hour of "newsroom." "reliable sources" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm brian stelter, i have a jam packed "reliable sources" ahead for you. here's what's coming up. when vladimir putin is your boss, it takes guts to say take this job and shove it. >> i am resigning. i probably won't be taking any trips to russia any time soon. >> the real story of how russia pumps propaganda into your living room. and speaking of tough jobs, how would you like to be a democrat working at fox news? or a republican at msnbc? which is harder? who's meaner? an insider's account. also, a cosmic cure for the science war. climate deniers, evolution rejection, one man who may convince the up convinceble using tv. all that and much more ahead this morning. let me start with a big question for the media industry. who in the world would want to take on rogger aels. the king of talk news sits on the throne with killer ratings and a right wing agenda. every successful business seems to spawn imitatoimitators. maybe people a

it's a first and senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has the story in the 2:00 hour of "newsroomave a jam packed "reliable sources" ahead for you. here's what's coming up. when vladimir putin is your boss, it takes guts to say take this job and shove it. >> i am resigning. i probably won't be taking any trips to russia any time soon. >> the real story of how russia pumps propaganda into your living room. and speaking of tough jobs, how would you like to be a democrat working at

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more. elizabeth?re born to moms who are hiv positive. usually whats is that when a mom is hiv positive, they give her drugs during pregnancy that dramatically reduce the chance that she's going to transmit that virus to her baby. but in this case in california, the mother didn't get any prenatal care, so she didn't get those drugs. so what doctors decided to do is soon after birth, they gave this baby high doses of anti-hiv drugs. now, it's always a question, because these drugs can be toxic, but they decided in this case it wa worth giving high doses just a couple of hours, just four hours after birth. and what they found was that 11 days later, they couldn't find any hiv in this baby's system. now, this is the second time that something like this has happened. last year there was baby in mississippi, a different circumstance, but the outcome similar. that high doses of anti-hiv drugs soon after burning and they couldn't detect hiv in the baby's system. so now doctors are asking the question, is this

now elizabeth cohen reports. researchers have developed a means of determining those most at risk for developing alzheimer's disease. >> there has not been a good way to predict who would get this. this destroys your memory and concentration. this study shows is simple blood test was able to determine this. >> this is a wonderful piece of science. we have been able to report this. >> researchers looked at the blood of healthy people to check for molecules'. those who have lower levels were likely able to ill-that on average, the change from healthy to sick to just two years and the test was over 90 percent accurate. the researchers and the association appointed that more studies need to be done to check to see if this really works. even if all goes well, it will not be and offices for several years. so, who would want a test to predict this? after all, there's nothing you could do to stop. >> i want to plan, work with my family to make sure that i attend to these issues. >> but some people may not want to know th

elizabeth cohen has the story. >> reporter: there hasn't been a good way to predict who will get alzheimer'she plaques and tangles that destroy memory and concentration and who will be spared. in a first of its kind study, a simple blood test was able to predict who would get alzheimer's. >> this is a wonderful piece of science, the most significant observation we have been able to report. >> the research looked at the blood of healthy elderly people checking for 10 fatty molecules, called lipids. those with lower levels were more likely to develop alzheimer's. the change from healthy to sick took just two years. the test was over 90% accurate. the researchers and the alzheimer's association point out that more studies need to be done to check and see if this test really works. if all goes well, the test won't be in doctor's offices for several years. who would want a test to predict alzheimer's. after all, there is nothing you can do to stop it. dr. howard federov, a researcher, says he would want to know. >> i would want to plan and work with my family and attend to the issues that are imp

elizabeth cohen joins me with more. help prevent them or make them less horrible when you have one? >> they make them less frequent. which i know it sounds like that's not so great, you just get fewer of them. as you said, guy grains can -- migraines can put you out. if you get, say, five a month, instead of seven a month, that will make a lot of people feel a lot better. it reduces the frequency. these would be by prescription. >> and the fda did approve this device. what about how does this compare to other medications out there on the market? >> we're told that medications, many of them work better than this. here's the rub. some of these medications are so hard to take that people actually stop taking them. there really are no serious side effects to wearing this. for some people, maybe they would use this in conjunction with medication. so maybe it would allow them to use fewer medications or maybe a lower dosage. >> why do we get migraines? i feel lucky i only get one really once a year. how do they happen? >> it'

queen elizabeth made him an honorary knight of the british empire. and roger cohen has been a foreign correspondent of the "new york times" for more than a decade. he now writes a column for the times. he is an author of several books on foreign policy and also a biography of norman schwarzkopf. it is hard to know where to start this discussion, but let me just start the discussion. is this the new cold war? why don't we start with you, dr. brezinski. don't know fore sure, but it is beginning to look that way. it may not end up that way, but it is beginning to look that way. in fact, if i could just take two minutes, i would like to do something in which probably most of the people have not -- most of the people here have not done, namely, sites and experts from putin's speech. it is worth reading the speech in full. it is what he says about ukraine more generally. in that speech he says, among other things, at ukraine -- let me get my clippings here. ukraine benefited from the bolshevik revolution by obtaining large sections of the historical south of russia. thatn

ford and nixon administration and holds the freedom and 93 queen elizabeth made him an honor a night of thinlight of the britid roger cohen has been a responded for more than a decade at "the new york times" and was the editor at times and now writes a column for the times and is the author of several books on foreign-policy and also biography of norman schwarzkopf. it's hard to know where to start this discussion, but i guess let me just start with this question is this the new cold war and why don't we start with you, doctor brezinski. >> well obviously we don't know for sure but it's beginning to look that way. it may not end up that way but it's beginning to look that way. and if i can just take two minutes, i would like to do something that most of the people here have not done. it's worth reading the speech in full and what is worrisome and relevant to your question is what he says about ukraine more generally. and in that speech, he says among other things that ukraine, he said that ukraine benefited from the bus bolshevik revolutin from russia so in effect ukraine's territory. then he goes on to say that when pres