or cystic fibrosis is recessive, or diabetes or many, and it takes up to 20 generations for recessive mutations to express themselves. so we're talking about eons of time for e expression of genetic disease--that's the second thing. the third thing is if the man's got plutonium in his testicles--and every male inn te northern hemisphere has a tiny load in his gonad--it's from weapons testing days, and plutotonium is ststill falling . and the man is cremated, the smokoke goes up the chimneney wh the plutonium, so yoyou can breathe it in, another man can, and it's ad infinitum because plutonium has a half-life of 24,400 years and d lasts for r a llong time. but the other thing is ththat the bodydy thinks plutonium is iron--it't's an irn analalogue--so it's stored in the liver, where it causes liver cancer. it's stored in the bone marrow to cause--to produce hemoglobin in the red blood cells, but it causes leukemia or bone cancer. it crosses the placenta into the developing embryo--which lets nothing through it, incidentally, except plutonium and a few other nasties. it's stored in the t

ecause of his work, the cystic fibrosis patient registry was created. before, cystic fibrosis patients typically lived into their early childhood. today, many live well beyond their 50's thanks largely to the advancements and treatment only possible through the patient registry and dr. warwick's unwavering commitment to research and excellence in patient care. in addition to serving his patients, dr. warwick honorably served his country for over 30 years in the united states army reserve medical corps, retiring as a colonel. his legacy, one of a passionate, pursuit of excellence and dedicating his life to helping others will live on. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from hawaii, ms. gabbard, for five minutes. ms. gabbard: thank you, mr. speaker. growing up in hawaii i learned the value of caring for our home and caring for our planet and the basic principles that we are all connected in this great chain of cause and effect. the dakota access pipeline is a threat to this great bala

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a fatal disease known as pulmonary fibrosis. >> my doctor said to me i'm surprised you can breathe. >hor and public speaker says his health was going downhill fast. >> before i knew it, i was sitting around unable to pick up a pencil if i drop it because i just didn't have the oxygen to do so. >> reporter: only option a double lung transplant put on the transplant list at st. joseph's hospital in phoenix in march 2015 he found out he was getting a new zest lungs but this was no ordinary transplant. jason was to be part of a clinical trial using device call the organ care system also known as lung in box. >> boy, i'll tell uh-uh take the lungs in the box element out of my equation and i could well be dead. >> dr. michael smith the lung transplant surgical director at st. joseph's one of only eight hospitals across the country chosen to take part in the lung in a box trial. >> we really had no problem getting our patients to consent to this technology, because to them, it just made sense. >> reporter: device is made by trance medics and it works by keeping the lungs essentially alive wh

just under 100 cases of complicated black lung disease, which is also called progressive massive fibrosist a new npr investigation found nearly 1,000 cases in nearly the same time from clinic reports in four states-- virginia, west virginia, pennsylvania and ohio. the extent of the problem has stunned a number of researchers and experts who work with miners as well. one of the miners diagnosed with black lung and profiled in the npr stories-- mackie branham-- spoke of just how difficult it is for him to breathe and his ill health. but he said mining was "in his blood." >> takes a lot of pressure in my chest at all times. i've never been scared to death. it don't bother me a bit. it's just i won't see my kids grow up. but if i had it to do over, i would do it again. if that's what it took to provide for my family. >> reporter: howard berkes has been uncovering this in a two- part series that concludes tonight on "all things considered" and he joins me now from salt lake city. howard, it is so difficult to hear that man struggling to breathe, and it's also hard to reconcile how he says he w

a fatal disease known as pulmonary fibrosis. >> zapped night chest to see if they can see anything.i'm surprised you can breeze. >> reporter: a professor, author and public speaker says his health was going downhill fast. >> before i knew it i was sitting around unable to pick up a pencil if i drop it because i just didn't have the oxygen to do so. >> reporter: the only option a double lung transplant. he was put on the transplant list at st. joseph's hospital in phoenix and in march 2015 he found out he was getting a new set of lungs. but this was no ordinary transplant. jason was to be part clinical trial using a device call the organ care system. also known as lung in a box. >> boy, i'll tell uh-uh take the lungs in the box element out of my equation and i could well be dead. >> reporter: dr. michael smith the long transplant surgical director at st. joseph's one of only eight hospitals across the country chosen to take part in the lung in box trial. >> we really had no problem getting our patients to consent to this technology because to them it just made sense. >> reporter: dev

mental illness of cancer or diabetes cystic fibrosis has no party affiliation. it attacks people and the best thing we can do is to help people so they can become productive citizens and get back to school, get back to work and get back on their feet and work with them. them. this is a an essential part of our constitution to promote the general welfare and to make sure we do all we can to help people with their health and not build the progressive washington. >> host: let's talk for a moment about suicide prevention. some statistics from theic national alliance on mental illness looking specifically at suicide and other issues and people say suicide is the third leading cause of death in youth ages 10 to 14. also it says 90% of those who died by suicide had an underlying mental illness. talk about what this bill does.s >> guest: we do we offer some of the suicide prevention programs but it's also making sure we have providers available. when people make a decision that they are going to have the suicide attempt in many cases they send out signals. they have dep

if you have cystic fibrosis gene mutation if both parents the chance is nearly 100 percent the diseases in your future. i can tell you from your embryonic cell that you will have that disease 100 percent that is reading the genome and now is more complicated about illness. and complicated things about potential identity. that is hell we enter the territory to have some moral concerns. not only do i do that reading but to make intentional directional changes those astonishing technologies that they learn to use says humans and then pick out one volume erased one word playback in -- to playback believes the rest of untouched. seems once they acquire the technology we need to talk about them. >> last week there was a closed-door meeting and that entire human genome one but in other words, they you could take that entire human genome. it is not science fiction fantasy but all the technologies that allow us to get there and to think about mental illness that you may be interested in and if you don't you have an unbelievably important piece send our future. . . i was thinking about this and t

exercise sounds like judgment and inserted for clarification the policy of the department to review all fibrosisn a case by case basis to evaluate all facts referring a d go the question becomes are we sufficiently clear on how we deal with extraordinary circumstances not specific to considers cars but specific to general police work so i'll open up for discussions i have some suggestions around language but want to check in where everyone it is and how you've been thinking over the past few weeks. >> i have not promoted language yet that is the discussion of the particular issue you have the language in the d go. >> commissioner mazzucco. >> as you recall everything is ability down to one issue shooting at moving vehicles we've looked at the best practices throughout the united states and gotten input dprt department of justice and including tactical interprets with presence experience on the streets that boils down to one issue it is korea that obviously we can't predict every sidewalk and no situations that are alike with the law enforcement on the street and kind of hard to have a textbook o

. >> reporter: beyond skin cond help with allergies, cystic fibrosis and chronic respiratory issues.y, just a lot of wheezing, coughing. >> reporter: after seeing progress in just three months rob says it's now become part of his lifestyle. >> my breathing feels just better. just overall changed my attitude toward managing what i need to do for myself. >> reporter: experts say that is the key here. it's not a cure but rather an all natural way to manage your ailments. >> we're talking about something that may based on patient's report improve symptoms of chronic lung diseases of various kinds. >> reporter: for "good morning america," kayna whitworth, abc news, los angeles. >> i got to say it is fascinating. abc's senior medical contributor dr. jen ashton joins us now. jen, this is fascinating but we have some examples. here's himalayan salt and regular table salt. are there dangers in this treatment? perspective. in a hospital setting we use salt aerosolized in nebulizer treatments for breathing and hyper tonic saline we use. what there isn't is good data on salt chambers yet but i t

mental illness, like cancer, like diabetes, mike cystic fibrosis has no party affiliation and it attacks people and the best and compassionate thing we can do is to help people so they can become productive citizens again. get back to school, get back to work, get back on their feet and work with them. this is where i think it's an essential part of our constitution, to promote the general welfare, to make sure we're doing all we can and frankly not build a bureaucracy in washington. >> host: let's talk about suicide prevention. statistics from the national alliance of mental illness looking specifically about suicide and other issues in young people, said that suicide is the third leading cause of death in youth ages 10 to 14 also that 90% of those who died by suicide had an underlying mental illness. talk a little about what this bill does in terms of suicide. >> extremely important, we reauthorize the suicide prevention programs in this and the key factor is make sure that we have providers available. when people make a decision that they're going to have a suicide attempt, in many ca

exercise sounds like judgment and inserted for clarification the policy of the department to review all fibrosisn a case by case basis to evaluate all facts referring a d go the question becomes are we sufficiently clear on how we deal with extraordinary circumstances not specific to considers cars but specific to general police work so i'll open up for discussions i have some suggestions around language but want to check in where everyone it is and how you've been thinking over the past few weeks. >> i have not promoted language yet that is the discussion of the particular issue you have the language in the d go. >> commissioner mazzucco. >> as you recall everything is ability down to one issue shooting at moving vehicles we've looked at the best practices throughout the united states and gotten input dprt department of justice and including tactical interprets with presence experience on the streets that boils down to one issue it is korea that obviously we can't predict every sidewalk and no situations that are alike with the law enforcement on the street and kind of hard to have a textbook o