the requester of political action the government and the institute of medicine has acknowledged serious gaps in the science and many of the vaccine studies or all vaccine safety studies have been done using active placebos and active controls and there often are not to see that it has increased chance that are in the vaccine and is not in or is not a say leo's the old fashioned sugar pill or salt so. it would have an impact on the outcome of the study it would tend to give the impression that the vaccine is actually safer and it really is if i can try and translate this into. there or is that what they're called yes. these chemicals that make the body react to the vaccine more vigorously and those who are what has been implicated in some cases rather than the virus itself whatever it may be disabled in some of these cases and you're saying to are you telling me that in the studies that have been done they've always had the edge of insulin in both the control and the placebo yes so how can you have a scientific study you can't because the control group is going to have the same adverse r

an investigation from the national institute of medicine find instead -- instances where patients were harmed because of the more poorly designed way to find records. in 2009 almost 15,000 americans went to the e.r. after being the intentionally drug by someone else. according to a new report, 60% of those cases occurred after somebody tampered with a drink. the majority of those didn't involve women, almost one in every four victims was male. these types of poisonings have been linked to the rates of about 3 million women but they have also been implicated in robberies and injuries. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> a windy and cold day in 2011. nothing like the stormy and snowy veterans day of 1987. a big storm rolled across the mid-atlantic. thunder snowdrop a lot of snow in the region. about 1 foot of snow drops to our south. officially at bwi marshall, it was a six-foot snow fall and that was in 1987. if you get when to read this time of year, that winter -- by the way, that winter ended up with just 20 inches of snow for the winter. i

the institute of medicine, an independent policy group that gives advice to the government, reported a few months ago that fewer than half of americans see a dentist each year because of access problems. the i.o.m. said there are persistent systemic barriers to make dental care hard to come by for seniors, minorities, children, and the disabled. beth merts is an assistant professor at the school of dentistry at the university of california san francisco. >> there's about 170,000 dentists in the country which is about a little over two-and-a-half dentists per 5,000 people. the problem is they're not distributed evenly in relationship to the population. >> reporter: the a.d.a. denies there is a shortage of dentists and calls it a mal- distribution problem but marts says whatever name you give it, the issue is still the same. >> what that means is that some communities have a lot of dental providers from which they can go and get care and other communities really have none. >> reporter: the areas where there are enough dentists tend to be where residents have dental insurance or money to

they had the institute of medicine look at this and come up with these recommendations. they wanted to have a scientific basis for doing this. and so they presented this to congress. they put the rules out for comment, and they got thousands of comments back and forth. and so they were saying this is scientifically based. this is not something we're coming with op the top of our heads. >> woodruff: when it came time to vote, congress basicry side, for most things, where the food industry, is that right? >> that's correct. and this is what members of congress basically said-- and this was led, of course, by various members from the farm states. so their argument was that by taking away potatoes and changing the rules on tomato paste you were basically robbing kids of nutritional foods when at the same time you're telling them to eat more fruits and vegetables. here are two vegetables that you're trying to take away. so why do that? and they also went along with the industry's argument that, well, they could remove the amount of salt or sodium in foods in a given time beca

the institutes of medicine have just said that it's around $770 billion a year. a few years back the new england health care institute said it was $850 billion a year. and the lewin group, a fairly well-respected health care consult answery here in washington as well as george bush's treasury secretary, secretary o'neill, have both agreed the annual savings could be a trillion dollars a year, all by improving the quality of care and the coordination of care. and i don't know if it exactly going to be $700 billion or a trillion dollars, but my point here is that there is a really big savings target out there that everyone from president obama's council of economic advisors to george bush's treasury secretary, to a lot of very well thought of groups in between, including our national institutes of medicine, all agree on. so i think that that makes it a very important target to pursue in this discussion. and it's not just me in believing that at this potential split in the road we should work and fight very hard to make sure we're taking the right path, and that we

last year the institute of medicine said it takes between five and seven cups of coffee to cause dehydrationut i'm not -- >> i have tested that five to seven theory. it works. >> you should stay hydrated either way if you're having caffeine. >> facebook, we have a question from sally. other than surgery, what are the treatment options for gall stones? >> good question. gall stones are small, pebble-like substances that build up in the gallbladder, a small organ in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen right under the liver. gall stones can be treated without surgery. there is a treatment called lithotripsy where we try to use ultrasound to break up the stones. there is a chem. tall to dissolve the stones. by far the safest, most effective treatment is surgery. it's extremely minimally invasive. just a couple of incisions. most people go home the same day. >> what causes it? >> there are a number of causes. some of the stones are cholesterol stones which can be from people who have high cholesterol. others are bilirubin stones. diet plays a role. >> final question is from facebook as well.

and this is despite a finding last year from the institute of medicine in the advanced practice in this debate registered nurses provide high-quality care. can you tell us what are you doing at the association to work with member companies to encourage them to accept advanced practice registered nurses into their private networks, and what if anything you may be doing with state legislatures to convince them to eliminate the barriers to practice of advanced practice nurses? >> i can't speak frankly to the specifics what each of the member companies are doing but i can speak to the philosophy that we have a system which is to enhance frontline care. if we are going to be able to treat the numbers of people we have to treat only going forward basis, we can't possibly train enough physicians fast enough in the primary care environment to do that. we are going to have to look towards nurse practitioners and other advanced trained professionals to extend the care and extend their reach of primary care and to communities, and if we are successful bringing in the on venture into the insurance

important for the first time we passed the affordable care act or an organization called the institute of medicine who look at women's preventative health. for the first time we have actually looked at those issues that are very specific to women. they came back with recommendations that were adopted by the secretary and they will be going into law next year. that will mean that in addition to things covered by health care like mammograms and other annual exams, that we are going to make sure contraception is available without cost-sharing. [applause] when you start a family and we are going to make sure equipment and other equipment is available so there are a whole host of things that used to be extremely expensive and we know that was a challenge for health care for women and are going to be available to them as part of preventative care. [applause] >> jim, this is for you. i think a lot of people want to know the answer to this. can a president and congress repeal a law that was legally passed? >> can congress repeal one. >> yes, can congress repeal a law that was legally pass? >> yes, they ha

other advanced practiced registered nurses and this is despite a finding of last year that the institute of medicine that advanced practiced nurses are providing high quality of care. what are you doing to work with member companies to encourage them to accept advanced practiced registered nurses into their private networks? and what, if anything, may you be doing with state legislators to convince them to eliminate of advanced practice nurses? >> the -- i can't speak, frankly, to the specifics of what each of our member companies are doing, but i can speak to the philosophy that we have as a system, which is to enhance front line care. if we are going to be able to treat the numbers of people that we need to treat on a going-forward basis. we can't possibly train enough physicians fast enough in the primary care environment to do that. we're going to have to look toward nurse practitioners and other advanced-trained professionals to extend the care and extend the reach of primary care into communities. and if we are successful in bringing in the uninsured into the insured marketplace, we're going t

practitioners and other registered nurses and this is despite a finding last year from the institute of medicine that registered nurses provide high-quality primary care. can you tell us, what are you doing at the association to work with member companies to encourage them to accept advanced practice registered nurses into their private networks and what if anything you may be doing with state legislatures to convince them to eliminate various advanced practice nurses? >> i can't speak frankly to the specifics of what each of our member companies are doing but i can speak to the philosophy we have is a system which is to enhance frontline care. if we are going to be able to treat the numbers of people that we need to treat going forward, we can't possibly train enough physicians fast enough in the primary care environment to do that. we are going to have to look toward nurse practitioners and other advanced train professionals to extend the care and extend the reach of primary care and to communities and if we are successful in bringing in the uninsured into the insured marketplace we are going

. >> reporter: mark davis, a chemical engineer at the california institute of technology, was a complete stranger to the world of medicinehis expertise was in the oil industry. then, in 1995, his wife mary was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> there were many times during the therapies where i just really wanted to give up. i thought that the treatment was going to kill me rather than the disease itself. >> reporter: the chemo killed the cancer but wreaked havoc on her body, permanently damaging her hearing. >> when she finished going through this, she just said "well, this is just awful. there really should be better ways to treat cancer patients where you can have high quality of life." she said "why don't you guys start working on it at cal tech." i said "come on, i don't know anything about cancer." and her response to that was "what kind of excuse is that?" so you can see all of the nano particles here. >> reporter: so, at age 40, davis changed his focus and, with no medical training, developed a novel way to treat cancer. so cancer treatment is an engineering problem to some extent? >> it to s to me. that's the way

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this is despite a finding last year from the institute of medicine that they provide -- that nurses provide high-quality medical care. what are you doing to work with member companies to encourage them to accept advanced practice registered nurses into their private networks and what, if anything, you may be doing with state legislators to convince them to eliminate various practice nurses? >> i cannot speak to the specifics of what each of our member companies are doing but i can speak to the philosophy that we have is a system which is to enhance front-line care. if we're going to be able to treat the numbers of people we need to treat, we cannot train in of efficient fast enough to do that. we will have to look toward nurse practitioners and other advanced trained professionals to extend the care and extend the reach of primary-care into communities. if we are successfu in bringing in the uninsured into the marketplace, we will have to be more reliant on nurse practitioners and others. my daughter is a nurse, too, so i have a vested interest. i believe it is inevitable that we do that. a

of life expectancy and power, were six institutions that essentially we monopolized for about 500 years. >> stephen: what. >> competition, the scientific revolution, the rule of law based on representative government, and private property rights, modern medicinehe society and the work ethic. we monopolized those institutions and ideas for about 500 years but we don't any more. because other societies have copied them. and meanwhile evens if they, if you like, downloading our killer apps, we are in the process of deleting them and that's the problem. >> stephen: i didn't follow all of that. (laughter) >> we can do it again. >> stephen: the question is, when, when will we all be locked in a factory making ipads for chinese children? >> so the year's economy is the biggest in the world since 1872. >> stephen: number one. >> and will be overtaken, the imf says it will be overtaken by china in five years from now, 2016. >> stephen: what if, and i'm not suggesting this, what if we attack them. (laughter) because we still make weapons, my friend. we still make weapons. what if we blow them up real good? >> yeah. >> stephen: i'm not saying, obviously i would be a monster to suggest that, but if. >> this thought did cross douglas mcarthur's mind at th

institute of health in bethesda. it's part of an exhibit that celebrates medicine.dy rieger takes a look. >> reporter: his name is jewel praying wolf james and putting final touches on a totem pole he bright to nih. inside the library, there's a new exhibit called native voices. native people's concepts of health and illness. it looks at how they used their beliefs, herbal medicines to heal their spiritual and physical wounds. >> it's good for us. maybe it's not scientifically proven but it's helps us get through the centuries. >> the native population has a lot to teach ourselves and the rest of us. i have been visiting what we consider outreach. >> reporter: they want this exhibit to show the communal nature of the native healing arts and how the native people kept the spirit of the earth and the ancestors near to help with the modern turmoil. the totem pole is the best reminder. only fallen trees are taken. they must first be blessed by the tribe. ♪ >> our teaching is that all things were created first by the great spirit. we are the youngest children of creation

first time, we asked when we passed the affordable care act for an organization called the institute of medicine to look at women's preventive health. for the first time we have actually looked at those issues that are very specific to women. they came back with recommendations that were adopted by the secretary and they will go into law next year and that will mean that in addition to things that were covered by health care like mammograms and other annual exams, that we're going to make sure that contraception is available without cost sharing. [cheers and applause] >> when you start a family and we're going to make sure that breastfeeding equipment and other kind of equipment is available so there are a whole host of things that used to be extremely expensive and we know that that was a challenge for health care for women are going to be available to them as part of preventive care. >> very good, thank you. [applause] >> now jim, this is for you a lot of people want to know the answer to this. account president and congress actually just appeal a law that was legally passed? >> can congress r

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on the financial institutions in the syria more specifically they put a ban a long term financial support on trade with the exception of perhaps a few industries such as food and medicine they also put a ban on loans to the government both bilateral and through financial institutions such as the syrian national bank and eat you companies are now prohibited from doing business especially with syrian state banks as well as investing in sectors such as energy and oil there's already an oil embargo on syria that has been imposed by the e.u. sometime in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to the syrian government and some analysts would even put in the analysis that it is also to cut off or corner businessmen the business elite in a damascus and aleppo to have the the biggest cities in syria where the business elites have for the for a large part been a sitting on the fence and some of them still supporting the assad regime and what the people themselves so the syrians the state t.v. in syria have been showing them going out into the streets by the thousands granted these are state backed protests but they are

on the financial institutions in the syria more specifically they put a bama longer financial support on trade with the exception of perhaps a few industries such as food and medicine e.u. companies are now prohibited from doing business especially with syrian state banks as well as investing in sectors such as energy and oil there's already an oil embargo on syria that has been imposed by the e.u. some time in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to the syrian government but the people themselves so the syrians a state t.v. in syria have been showing them going out into the streets by the thousands granted these are state backed protests but they are frustrated with the growing growing number of sanctions on the country because they are the ones who are feeling the pinch just an example i was there with the r.t. crew about a month ago and it was almost impossible to find well it was impossible to actually five eighty have to get some money and everything was done in cash and when you ask the locals why is the case they said we say because there are sanctions on our companies the e.u. sanctions are in a

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