heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses.nd you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiti >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor mar, who was elected in 2008 and is about h

and it comes with significant side effects, like hypertension and blood clots. >> in a situation wheret delays the growth of tumors in some women but doesn't affect the survival overall and you have a drug that does have some side effects, the calculus is not so clear-cut. >> reporter: avastin is still fda-approved for various other cancers, so even if it's withdrawn for breast cancer, doctors could prescribe it off label. but insurers may not pay for breast cancer patients to receive it. avastin supporters say patients with advanced breast cancer need every option available. >> i need to preserve my energy to fight my battle. i don't need the insurance companies to take on. >> reporter: for patients like rotheim, it's a matter of life and death. danielle nottingham, cbs 5. >>> a child fell from an escalator. the 20-foot drop was caught on surveillance video. 18-year-old shane o'malley says that he had been drinking at a concert that night. look at this. but he has no memory of falling. hard to believe but his only injury was a fractured elbow. >> what's the message for a kid your age?

one of the projects we look technet ear was medication adherents, specifically related to hypertension. we found that if you could and act on a phone and teach someone how to use it, it can definitely help them take their pills on time and live a healthier, better life. >> it is that the application that qualcomm developed? how is called, part of this? as one of our partners did. qualcomm is an enabling. the ship on the phone is what makes connectivity say you can have data. you can look up any pill and see a picture of it and see what it is used for. the can program the applications so it sent to an alarm when you are supposed to take your pills. what is important is a lot of people are suffering from chronic diseases today. they might need to take up to eight pills a day. they have blood pressure issues, diabetes, and they are all combined. it is hard enough just to remember to take your multivitamin. if you have access to an application that helps you, it can make a true impact on your life. >> one of the well-known brands that rule corp. owns is youtube. joining us now is david ros

. >> diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, problems with joints. i have several patients that have presented with several of those issues as early as 7 years old. >> reporter: hancock was once an elementary schoolteacher. but when she started her step up to health program last year, she knew she could not use the classroom alone to change behaviors. drawing on her sorority days at ucla where she stepped and mentored, she decided to create a fitness sisterhood of sorts. in d.c., the need is great. 40% of young people in washington, d.c. are overweight or obese. experts say one of the major reasons is a lack of access to healthy food options. like many low income areas there are not many places to get healthy food in this southeast washington neighborhood. there are just two grocery stores but lots of spots where the food is cheaper, faster and not very good for you. >> if it's much easier to choose the high dense, high calorie foods because of economic reasons, then it makes sense that that's what they're going to do. >> reporter: stepping helps the

was medication adherence and related to the hypertension and what we found by working with gw universityand other partners is that if you put an application on a felon and teach somebody how to use it, it can definitely help them take their pills on time and live a healthier and better life. >> is it the application qualcomm developed or how is it a part of this? >> actually one of our partners did and so, qualcomm is an enabler and making the connectivity say you can have data. the applications and is built so you can have access to educational information about your medication, like you can look up any pill and you will see a picture of it and what it's used for and then you can program the application so it's simple, it sends your an alarm when you're supposed to take your pills, and what is really important is a lot of people suffering from chronic disease today they might need to take up to eight pills a day because the of blood pressure issues, diabetes and they are combined and living with that and it's hard enough to just remember to take your multivitamin, right? so if you have

was medication adherence and specifically related to hypertension. and we found by working with gw university and other great partners that if you put an app on a phone and you teach somebody how to use it, it can definitely help them take their pills on time and live a healthier, better life. >> host: so is it the app that qualcomm developed or what? how is qualcomm a partner in this? >> guest: no, oneover our partners did, so qualcomm's the enabler. the chip on the phone was making the connectivity so you could have data. the application then is built so that you can have access to educational information about your medications like this application you can look up any pill, and you'll see a picture of it, you'll see what it's used for, and then you can program the application so it's simple. it sends you an alarm when you're supposed the take your pills. and, you know, what's really important is a lot of people are suffering from chronic diseases today, they might need to take up to eight pills a day because they have blood pressure issues, diabet

. >> diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, problems with giants.ave several patients that have presented with several of those issues as early as 7 years old. >> reporter: hancock was once an elementary school teacher. when she started her step up to health program she knew she can not use the classroom alone to change behaviors. drawing on her sorority days at ucla where she stepped and mentored she decided to create a fitness sister hood. in d.c., the need is great. 40% of young people in washington, d.c. are overweight or obese. experts say one of the major reasons is a lack of access to healthy food options. like many low-income areas there are not many places to get healthy food in the south east washington neighborhood. there are two grocery stores but lots of spots where the food is cheaper, faster, and not very good for you. >> if it's much easier to choose the high-calorie foods because of economic reasons, then it makes sense that's what they're going to do. >> reporter: stepping helps the girls burn about 300 calories per workout. >> i e

they have $129 gadget that plugs into an iphone or ipad that auto mattically downloads a app for hypertensionuff and put it on the left or right arm and it gives you thorough instructions and i close it up and plug in -- you can see that typical 30-pin connector, press start and it gives you your blood pressure and your heart rate. you can chart this progress. can e-mail to a physician. it will show you in graph formation and you can sink crow nies with other tools. >> perhaps you want to lose weight, what do you have there to assist in that? >> the second app is called lose it. it's a free app and as the name suggests, you set a goal like i want to lose five pounds over six weeks. what it does, it will give you a calculation, what your caloric intake should be. every time you eat something, divided into meals and snacks, you type in what you had and it has a data base of thousands of products, both brand name and small apple or medium sized piece of cake and what the icing was. it will give you the readings and set the goal. plus you exercise and it subtracts the calories so you can have mor

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plugs into an iphone, ipod touch or an ipad that automatically downloads a free app, and it is for hypertensionrposes, a blood pressure monitor. you unvelcro that cuff, close it up. and simply plug in the -- if you can see that that 30-pin connector. press start. it gives you your blood pressure and your heart rate. you can chart this. you can see it in graph format, synchronize it with google health and other online tools. it's a neat device. >> very neat. perhaps you want to lose weight. what do you have there to assist? the second app is called lose it it's a free app. as the name suggests, you set a goal. hey, i want to lose five pounds over six weeks. it will give you a calculation what your calorie intake should be on a daily basis. every time you eat something, it's divided into meals and snacks, you type in what you had. h it has a database of thousands of brand names, a piece of cake, ice sing, it will give you all that readings and set that goal for you. if you exercise it subtracts some of the calories so you're allowed to have more that day. it is called lose it. it's a great and fr

that's white coat hypertension.hile. that's what we call orthostatic hypotension. >> that's what you call it. >> yeah. it means when you move, your blood pressure drops a little bit. interestingly, it's really good for when you get older and your blood pressurizes normally. other than being light headed occasionally and knowing quick movements may cause you to be a little lightheaded, no problem. >> better to be low than high. >> yeah. >> let's move on to cholesterol. we hear all about good cholesterol, bad cholesterol. where should we be and what is this? >> ideally everyone would like to have levels lower than 200. that's a combination of hdl and ldl, the good and bad cholesterol. when it goes higher, this waxy substance we need for our cells working and vitamin d production, all that's good stuff. the problem is when it goes too high and it causes plaque buildup in our arteries. that's what causes strokes and heart disease. if your doctor says your number is 220 or 230, you have to make sure it's broken down into

is opening a $25 million health center to offer primary care but focus on chronic diseases like hypertension community about the next phase? >> well, the people that we serve are used to being disappointed. >> reporter: long time resident hank smith couldn't disagree moor. >> east cleveland is a strong community and doing everything we can to survive, and losing this hospital, i think is putting a nail in our coffin. >> reporter: there's talk of a lawsuit challenging the closure but few expect the outcome to change, just one more loss in a city that's been on the losing end all too often. cynthia bowers, cbs news, east cleveland, ohio. >> the clinic promises free transportation from east cleveland from patients who need hospital care. tomorrow a special place in memphis where faith in the medical system is being restored. stay with us. we'll be right back. this is "the early show" on cbs. >>> "healthwatch" sponsored by pfizer. i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressivel

the dietary approach to stop hypertension. and it was sort of a happy accident.fe weight loss tool. >> thank you so much. >>> let's check out sam, who needs to be on no diet. >> oh, robin. no. i need to slim down a little bit. but grab a cup of coffee and join us for the "gma morning menu." coming up, ann coulter is on the show. we're going to pick her brain on the anthony weiner scandal. >>> also, dr. oz and dr. roizen is here this morning. they're calling this the owner's manual for teens. they'll be coming up this morning. >>> also later, sarah ferguson joining forces with the oprah winfrey network for a life-changing series. it may change our lives, as well. stay right here. i feel the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. and that's what they do with great grains cereal. see the seam on the wheat grain? same as on the flake. because great grain steams and bakes the actual whole grain. now check out the other guy's flake. hello, no seam, because it's more processed. now, which do you suppose has better nutrition for you? mmm. great g

seniors suffering from arthritis, hypertension, coronary disease and other ailments lacked coverage andl to financial distress. but thanks to medicare we changed all of that. providing compared health insurance coverage to our nation's seniors. as a result the senior poverty rate decreased by 75%. but our retirees once again face that scenario as the republican budget plan seeks to eliminate medicare for everyone 54 years and younger and forces future retirees in funding insurance in the 2349 private market. the private market which could choose not to offer them coverage at all. many seniors will be forced to pay more for health insurance. many seniors won't find any coverage. under the republican plan for medicare, according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, retirees in 2022 will pay 6,400 more per year than they otherwise would under traditional medicare coverage. in addition the republican budget reopens medicare part d prescription drug coverage gap or the doughnut hole which will cost seniors thousands of dollars each year for prescription medication. prescription dr

could not find a primary care physician to take them on, to treat their everyday problems with hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes, gout, and things of that nature. i would get on the phone time and time again and i would call family doctors and internal medicine physicians and plead with them, why can't you take this one more patient into your practice? and it's because the reimbursement situation for medicare was so bad, even back then in the 1990's, that if a physician took on too many medicare patients, they couldn't meet their costs. and that situation's gotten much worse. today, today in 2011. i can tell you that i have grave concerns about the future of the medicare program. and what's going to happen. and i'm not speaking as a member of congress. i'm speaking as a physician. as somebody who cared for many patients who valued that doctor-patient relationship. this situation whereby families who have a loved one on medicare cannot find a primary care doctor, this is a very serious situation today and getting worse by the week. the bottom line is medicare is in trouble. i saw t