>> that's rightht what was available in the i used the john hopkins medical library as my source, andfrom my reading, it was very clear to me that in 1993 the survival rate, long-term survival rate for men was highest with surgery if they could handle the surgery so i opted for surgery. >> yeah, but then you went to the zone of real risk, you got the incontinence and impotence risks, what other risks -- what are the negative -- what's the negative downside of radical surgery? >> i think you covered the two that are of most concern. there's always a chance you might lose some blood during surgery although we've been able to decrease that significantly over the years. >> in connection with radiation, besides radiation, you can also treat it by internal insertions into the gland itself. what do you put in the gland to help control the spread of cancer? >> well, there are radioactive seeds that are placed. >> seeds, right? >> yes, tiny pellets. >> what else besides seeds, what are those radioactive? >> they're radioactive. so it's a similar -- >> how is a cure effected through nuclear ene

scientists at john hopkins university say the mutation is in a quarter of african-americans.his variation reduces the risk of narrowed or clogged arteries in patients. the finding is surprising because heart disease afflicts a greater number of african-americans than any other race. >>> a new study out today suggests that staying outside in cool winter air may be a way to shed some unwanted pounds. it says staying inside in a warm house during the winter months doesn't force your body to work to stay warm. the study recommends keeping your thermostat below 70 and spending time outdoors. >>> a new report from the fda says breast implants may be linked to a rare cancer. there are 60 cases of this lymphoma in scar tissue that forms around breast implants. the cancer has been found in breast tissue only three out of 100 million without the implants. so breast implants are suspect. they are not being removed from the market and the fda considers them to be safe. >>> we are talking about staying warm or staying cool outside, rather, but christina, if you go outside it is not cool.

john hopkins explains. miami florida white sandy beaches miniskirts and. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined the bin laden of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the new tory a school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spend five decades it impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner for fifty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act put side of plans from venice and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened bush either cutlass was the mastermind of the of the woman on the. flight and still he's here posada was convicted in absentia and then a swell of masterminding the bombing however not only did the us government refused to extradite but started to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element of the country wars which clean lines of seventy thousand civilian

john hopkins. and i know john hopkins. very important and active citizen in my community and contemporary. he sent me an email. and mr. hopkins requested i share this story with the house as we consider a repeal of the affordable care act. i want to share it with everybody here on c-span. john was diagnosed with two unrelated cancers during his life. if you know anything about cancer, getting it twice for unrelated reasons is almost unheard of. but it happened to john hopkins. midway through his first bout with cancer he was, of course, dropped from his health insurance plan. he was left with a medical bill that wiped out his and his wife's entire retirement savings as well as the value of their house. they were never able to repay the debt in his lifetime. when he had the second bout of cancer, he had no insurance because nobody would give him a policy because of the pre-existing condition. he got some plan in tennessee for uninsurables but it was limited to $250,000 a year. as we all know, annual limits are set to be phas

me on said, we have two guests, and nancy benec of the associated press and james mann of the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. by the way, if you want to continue to watch what is happening, live coverage, uninterrupted, on c-span2 this morning. nancy, let me begin with you. what is going on here? guest: well, if lot of this is the very important optics of giving the chinese the full high octane ceremony they are looking for. 21donna salute. it is a little -- 21-gun salute. it was in little touch and go with the weather. the chinese are very interested in all of that. when the last state visit occurred in 1997, president clinton wanted to be able to include as many people as possible, so he proposed having the state dinner, for example, in a tent on the south lawn to accommodate more people. the chinese were very interested in having the full opulent dinner inside the white house, so they declined that. the tent could only accommodate as many people. it is very important, the symbolism of the ceremony. host: the joint news conference will happen at 1:00 p.m. today and

john hopkins university researchers say the increase may be due to the use of life saving inhibitor drugs used to treat hiv. those drugs have the side effect of increasing cholesterol and lipil level in blood. >>> a mountain view apartment complex is being treated for a bedbug infestation. bedbugs were recently discovered in two units on calderon avenue. they've been using special heating fans to kill the bugs. many infestations have been reported in hotels and motels. >>> scientists announced today they may have mapped the bedbug geneote. they are hoping they can find new ways to kill the blood sucking pest. bedbug infestations have soared by 85% in the last decade. >>> the nation's top doctor called for support for mothers who want to breast-feed. the surgeon general says 75% of infants are breast-fed as infants. the surgeon general wants health providers to offer benefits for mothers. >>> who helped the fbi crack down on the nation's top crime families? >>> and tracking the winds around the bay area right now. some cool overnight lows. got the weekend in sight as well. i'll have the fi

to a pioneer divvying five m&a and went on to become theoin dean of school of public health of johns hopkinsm, a little over 3,000 with the enormous impact of where these people had gone on with said who, the ase foundation, the state health departments all over the place and now other programs around the world that the alumni have because of their spreading the epidemiology. this is the first where george harrison have the concert and people were galvanized by what had happened. they sent electric blankets and vitamins a and tranquilizers and field hospitals and he said either people had drowned or were blown away or this was the worst injury they have from holding to a tree and had aberrationsts and that was it. what they needed was food and shelter. fact is one of the interesting things i found about the epidemiologist, many times during the disaster trying to sort out what would go on like a refugee campre, like're doctors without borders would say why.y aren't to you doing something? why are you taking part in primary health care? but then they realized by taking a pay a broaied view to

in economics at the john hopkins university and his m.s. degree in economics from the massachusetts institute of technology and be a degree in economics from brandeis university. dr. william spriggs was the chair of the department of economics at harvard university what is now the assistant secretary for policy and the u.s. department of labor. in his role as assistant secretary, dr. spriggs brings to the department of labour a unique sensitivity regarding workplace justice, issues affecting low-income working families, the strategy is to assist small and disadvantaged businesses. in the spring of 2008, dr. spriggs offered, co-authored beyond the mountaintop descriptions for policy for the rosenberg foundation to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king. in addition, dr. spriggs served on boards including united food and commercial commission, the independent health care trust for the uaw retirees and the ford motor company, and i have to say, he was also the director of the national urban league think

in economics at the john hopkins university and his m.s. degree in economics from the massachusetts institute of technology and be a degree in economics from brandeis university. dr. william spriggs was the chair of the department of economics at harvard university what is now the assistant secretary for policy and the u.s. department of labor. in his role as assistant secretary, dr. spriggs brings to the department of labour a unique sensitivity regarding workplace justice, issues affecting low-income working families, the strategy is to assist small and disadvantaged businesses. in the spring of 2008, dr. spriggs offered, co-authored beyond the mountaintop descriptions for policy for the rosenberg foundation to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king. in addition, dr. spriggs served on boards including united food and commercial commission, the independent health care trust for the uaw retirees and the ford motor company, and i have to say, he was also the director of the national urban league think

what was available in the i used the john hopkins medical library as my source, and from my reading, it was very clear to me that in 1993 the survival rate, long-term survival rate for men was highest with surgery if they could handle the surgery so i opted for surgery. >> yeah, but then you went to the zone of real risk, you got the incontinence and impotence risks, what other risks -- what are the negative -- what's the negative downside of radical surgery? >> i think you covered the two that are of most concern. there's always a chance you might lose some blood during surgery although we've been able to decrease that significantly over the years. >> in connection with radiation, besides radiation, you can also treat it by internal insertions into the gland itself. what do you put in the gland to help control the spread of cancer? >> well, there are radioactive seeds that are placed. >> seeds, right? >> yes, tiny pellets. >> what else besides seeds, what are those radioactive? >> they're radioactive. so it's a similar -- >> how is a cure effected through nuclear energy? >> it kills

just got all sorts of wonderful ways of director of the american foreign policy programs at the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies which is based in washington. a former faculty member at harvard and columbia university and the u.s. naval academy. the author of 11 previous books. the current one, which we are going to discuss tonight is called the frugal superpower -- "the frugal superpower". let's start with the first part of this title because it tells us two things. one is that we will not be without power altogether. we will have a pretty important role. but then the front part of it does not normally go with superpower, at least not in our history, as michael points out in his book. we get very used to spending whatever money it took to have the position that we had in the liabilities, the debt that we are all carrying out and the wars that we have fought and so on. but there are also some new liabilities coming forth. what caught my eye to a great extent was the retiring baby boomers place of a not insignificant role in your analysis. >> that is right, jim

this is a woman who in the early 50s, a black woman went to johns hopkins. she was deistic nosed with cervical cancer. unbeknownst to her some researchers in the lab to two times they pieces of her and put them into a lab and crew the first immortal cell that has ever been grown forever. and what has come out of this -- if you can imagine -- these are called tequila cells. they are responsible for 80% of all the cells that are in laboratories today. how we find, you know, how we get different cures for different medication, for different ailments. these cells are everywhere. and it is the story of how they took the cells unbeknownst to henrietta for? and her story finding out about it 20 years later. it's this amazing moment in the book where sun -- sorry, her daughter, deborah goes and sees her mother's cells in an actual test tube in posted chica to this and that mommy, you're famous. it shows no one knows it. it's this billion-dollar industry growth out of this woman's cells and their daughter is looking at this test tube. and his daughter, deborah, can't

and then he went on to become the dean of the school of public health at johns hopkins. i wanted to make. it's a relatively small program. only 3,000 or so. a little over 3,000 have gone through it. but it's had an enormous impact because of where this people have gone on to. they've gone to work at the world health organization, at the gates foundation, in state health departments. they're all over the place and there are now 36 programs around the world that eis alumni have begun so they're spreading this methodology of shoe leather epidemiology around the world and it's really had an impact. anyway, al summers said, you know, these people gave us the craziest things. this was the first real, you know, public -- where george harrison had the concert for bangladesh. people were really galvanized by what had happened to them. but they sent electric blankets. they sent vitamins. they sent outdated tranquilizers they sent crazy things. they sent field hospitals. he said we didn't need field hospitals either people had gotten drown or had been blown away or this was the wor

henry brem is chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the johns hopkins medical center in baltimore. and dr. norman doidge is a psychiatrist who specializes in this field. he's author of "the brain that changes itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science." dr. brem, we're talking about a woman who was shot at close range and about ten days later is giving her husband a neck rub. blinking her eyes. moving her limbs on command. unusual, no? >> extraordinary. two thirds of people who are shot by a gun in the head die at the scene. over 90% of the people die within a short amount of time after the injury. so surviving at any level of function is truly extraordinary. she by reports is doing very well. she's making progress and getting better and better. >> suarez: today in tucson the doctor said the next major step is the graduation to rehabilitation. what does that mean? >> it means that the surgical issues seem to be behind her. you know, there are two issues related to brain injury. the first is the actual injury itself. the gunshot wound. that's frequently

. >> host: china's economy and its currency, tim geithner speaking about this last week at the johns hopkinson d.c. here's a portion of his remarks on the china currency issue. >> when you think about competitiveness and the effects of what you see in the exchange rate, you really have to look at inflation and use the completion accelerating, running at a much higher rate than inflation. and at that rate of inflation combined with the exchange rate that affects competitiveness. and if you look at the amount it is on the relative acceleration and chinese inflation over the last six months or so, the exchange rates are appreciating as an exchange rate of about 10% a year. so if that appreciation was sustained over time, it would make it very essential difference in correcting what the major distortion for the chinese economy and the global economy. we're probably at the end of the first quarter to use the sports. end of the second inning if you want to use the sports comparison. that is changing. it has to happen because the fundamental forces that are pushing chinese productivity growth in pu

at the johns hopkins university. he earned a b.a. degree in economics from brandeis university. dr. william spriggs was the chair of the department of economics at howard university, but is now the assistant chair for policy in the u.s. department of labour. in his role, dr. sprague's brinks -- dr. spriggs brings a unique sensitivity. in the spring of 2008, dr. sprague's co-authored -- dr. iggs code-authored. i have to say, he was also the director of the national urban league think tank here, in washington, d.c., and my former boss, when i worked there. was that, we will go in order that i introduced them, and i ask you to hold your applause until the very end. thank you. >> thank you. mr. chairman, other distinguished members of congress, i am pleased to be here to kind of kick off a conversation, and in my remarks, i am there is a consensus among many economists and policy analysts that the federal debt needs to be reduced from its current level. in order to do that, the annual federal deficit must also be reduced. however, there are significant efforts is among those who studied

in molecular biophysics at johns hopkins, a naturalized american citizen, he was a professor at princetonhan a decade. but now he's back in china, leading the brand new school of life sciences at a university in beijing. >> if china can maintain this growth rate in both quality and quantity, china probably will overtake the united states in 20 years as the most advanced science and technology country in the world. >> reporter: he didn't go home empty handed. >> how many of you have received your education in the u.s. and then chose to come back to china? >> reporter: he recruited more than a dozen post doctoral scientists educated in america to return to china with him. >> now we have the best and the brightest who came here who are taking what they have learned from us back to the home countries and they're going to compete with us. >> reporter: when president obama honored math and science educators, he acknowledged the importance of nurturing the next generation of researchers and engineers. >> our future depends on reaffirming america's role as the world's engine of scientific discove

. >> originally came from the johns hopkins study, a gentleman whose name -- >> do you know? >> these agencies exclude non major rules on 90% to finalize this year. >> mr. mackintosh, do you know? [inaudible] >> discuss the cost of federal regulation. >> somebody said it. that is about it. the want to add anything to this? >> they are the co-authors. and $7.5 trillion. if this reins act -- reins act which is on the list of new leadership agenda, what would this do to health-care reform? how would you take an enormous piece of legislation like this and obamacare is going to be a congratulatory remarks in history. would it stop in its tracks? >> it depends on the majority of those in both houses of congress. the majority of congress, it ensures the american people get the sort of regulatory policy the american people want. the step towards greater political accountability and -- >> with a minute. the majority of the congress already passed the bill and the president signed into law. >> congress revoked statutes and altered statutes and one of the problems is you don't have legi

. >> treasury secretary timothy geithner will be speaking at the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies in washington. his remarks focus on u.s./china economic future and what to expect from chinese president's visit. >> we have a special event today. timothy geithner, to this country, will speak to us on u.s./china economic relations. the subject as all of you know is great importance to most countries and to the world. in the absence of justice einhorn who is watching this event from italy, head of our china studies department david langton who is watching from korea, in the international school. i have been asked to introduce the secretary and serve as moderator during the question and answer session. i teach courses on china's economy at the school. since timothy geithner is well known to all of you are can keep my introductory commentary very short. he played a prominent role in national and international economics and finance for many years. he has always had special interest in east asia. he was sworn in as 75th secretary of the treasury on 26 january 2009 i

laughter] when my son was struck by a strange affliction, sarge insisted that we take the boy to johns hopkinsician, and shriver friend. one day i said to mary orlando, the highest-ranking person above him in the peace corps, that without her, we all would have been blown away by the cyclone he created. she is here tonight. among the underlined passages in a novel he gave me was this one, "human beings do not live a very long, ruben. we live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. so it may be asked, what value is there to the human life? there is so much pain in the world. what does it mean to have to suffer so much in our lives are nothing more than doubling of the eye? -- then uplink of the i -- than a blink of the eye? i learned a long time ago that the blink of an eye is nothing, but the eye that blinks is something. the span of a life is nothing, that livesn and that that span is something. he gives time meaning so that its quality is a measurable -- in measurable -- immeasurable." and you did. you did. [applause] >> my brothers -- we just -

. >> host: china's economy and its currency, tim geithner speaking about this last week at the johns hopkinson d.c. here's a portion of his remarks on the china currency issue. >> when you think about competitiveness and the effects of what you see in the exchange rate, you really have to look at inflation and use the completion accelerating, running at a much higher rate than inflation. and at that rate of inflation combined with the exchange rate that affects competitiveness. and if you look at the amount it is on the relative acceleration and chinese inflation over the last six months or so, the exchange rates are appreciating as an exchange rate of about 10% a year. so if that appreciation was sustained over time, it would make it very essential difference in correcting what the major distortion for the chinese economy and the global economy. we're probably at the end of the first quarter to use the sports. end of the second inning if you want to use the sports comparison. that is changing. it has to happen because the fundamental forces that are pushing chinese productivity growth in pu

the tsa assured us that his long list of agencies, the ian johns hopkins applied laboratory among others were involved in determining venturing scanners safety. the thing is, aol asked each of the agencies about this and they'll hasten to point out that they are in no way responsible for the devices day-to-day safety nor have they been doing regular testing of these units. we've seen recent stories about how maladjusted hand-delivered damaging doses of radiation to patient. who is making sure that does not do airline passengers? we all know that everyone -- everyone except the tsa, his subject and mr. radiation is required to undergo extensive training in the subject to extensive regulation. what radiation training and regulation are tsa subjected to? i notice they are not wearing my dress. the fourth amendment says an mechanic will come in the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures so not be violated and the work shall issue upon probable cause supported by oath or approbation and particularly describing t

[laughter] when our son was struck, sarge intervened, insisted we take the boy to john hopkins hospital the highest person above shriver, and without her, we would have been washed away in the cataclysm that he created. she's here tonight. she gave me a novel called "the promise". he underlined passages, and there's this one. "human beings don't live very long. we live less than the time it takes to blink an eye. if we measure our lives against eternity, so we may ask what value is there to a human life? there is so much pain in the world. why do we suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than a blink of the eye?" i learned a long time ago that is blink of the eye is nothing, but the eye that blinks, that is something. a span of life is nothing, but the man who lives it, he is something. he can tell that tiny span with meaning so that it's quality -- its quality is immeasurable. you did. you did. [applause] [applause] >> this is very quick, we just wanted to -- i'm maria and mark and anthony, and boib you heard about. we wanted to thank everybody here tonight for coming to honor ou

from johns hopkins university school of international ids in washington d.c., this is a little less than your alma mater. good morning to you all. we have a special event today. tocretary geithner, head of division byda president hu jinto to this country will speak to us on u.s. and china economic o relations, a subject that all of you know is of great importance the su to both countries and to the world. in the absence of being at thehs school and the hand of our china studies department, david chmpton who was also watching koom koreaen, we are a truly internationalre school, i've ben asked to introduce the secretary and to serve as moderator during the question-and-answer session. i am pieter bottelier and i cous teach courses of china's economy at the school. since tim geithner is well-known to all of you, i can keep my a introductory comments very short tim has played a very prominent role in national and rolin international economics and finance for many years. he always has a special interest intere in ea. he was sworn in as 75th u.s. he secretary of the treasury on 26 january 2009

. >> i am richard, professor of international economics at johns hopkins sites. the previous speaker, senator cozens asserted that we are compromised in our relations with china by our enormous embeddedness. i think this might be arguable. there is a saying that if you invest a million dollars in a company, you on the company but if you invest a billion dollars in a company, the company owns you. so exactly in what way is our position with regard to expanding areas of cooperation that you say your objective was? how is that exactly compromised by our our indebtedness to china? thank you. >> questions like this are always a bit amusing when they are aimed at somebody who spent 37 years in uniform. by definition i don't know anything about high finance. but, let me offer a point that goes perhaps to senator cozens broader theme and that is a general lack of confidence in america that is being exhibited in various corridors. i heartily endorse his comments on the positive side. our university system and other things like that, the manufacturing that we do that is in

from johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies in washington d.c., this is aalma mater. good morning all. we have a special event today. secretary geithner will speak t us on u.s.-china economic relations, subject that i was all of you know is of greats. importance to both countries and to the world. in the absence of the dean of our school jessica einhorn who is watching this event from i bologna italy and the head of our china studies department who was also watching from korea, wo are chilean international school i've been asked to introduce the secretary and to serve assk moderator during the question-and-answer session. i am pieter bottelier and iue teach courses on china's economy at this school. since tim geithner is well-knowc to all of you, i can keep my introductory comments very short tammuz played a prominent role in national and international economics and finance for manyd years. he has always had a special interest in east asia. he was sworn in as the 75th a u.s. secretary of the treasury on the 26th of january, 2009 in the middle of a deepy rec

struck by a strange, undefined affliction, sarge intervened, insisted that we take the boy to johns hopkinsined by one of the world's leading pediatricians, but shriver friend. i leapt one morning for a long trip abroad and stop by and said to the highest rate person above sergeant shriver in the peace corps. without her, wu would have all been washed away in the cyclone that he created. she is here tonight. he gave me the novel "the promise." among the underlined passages was this one. "human beings don't live very long, rubin. we live less than the time it takes to blink an eye. if we measure our lives against eternity, what value is there to a human life? there is so much pain in the world. what does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than a blink of the eye? i learned a long time ago, rubin, that the blank of the eye is nothing, but the eye that blinks is something. the man who lives that span is something. he can fill that tiny span with meaning so that its quality is in measurable." and you did, you did. [applause] >> i am maria, and that is mark, timmy, a

he lectures at the johns hopkins university school of international at fenster study and adjunct professornd government of the american university school of public affairs. he's also been a fulbright scholar and a visiting fellow at the norman patterson school of international affairs at carleton university in iowa. mary scott greenwood, scotty as we know her, is a managing director of the law firm at the washington office and specializes in trade policy issues on both sides of rd, d e'theci reorf e naan eranusescoci shwalsapinedy president clinton to serve as chief of staff at the united states embassy in canada. pamela's a conservative senator from canada, the chair of the senate committ on national security and defense and also serves on the senate committee on foreign affairs and international trade. she was canada's consul general in new york for 20 o2 2006. the former broadcast journalist is also a senior adviser on canada and u.s. relations at the american society and the council of the americas, new york and washington. and gary doer was appointed canada's ambassador to the united

internet advocacy center of the internet advocacy roundtable and an adjunct professor at georgetown john hopkins and american university where he teaches media politics in the digital age and digital political strategy, on and on. he is the founding member of the media bureau network pioneer in streamlining media services contributing to politics on line .com and serves on other editorial and communication organizations. joining him today we aren welcoming, we want to welcome mr. josh koster who is the managingin partner of john kostr communications agency that specializes in win or lose situations, highly contestedd issue campaigns i guess as well as political campaigns. he has clients in the fortune 500, amount elsewhere. he has been known to coined the term national targeting so wehe thank you for your time and welcome you both here today. [applause] >> thanks for having us. we are going to split this map. we are going to start offks talking about social media for efficacy and probably go for 20 minutes or so and then josh will talk about how to to set up on line ad campaigns usingnu facebook

founder of the internet advocacy strat internet advocacy rouge and adjunct professor at georgetown, john hopkins and here at american university, where he teaches media and politics into the digital age, internet politic, digital political strategies, on and on and on. the founding team member of the media bureau network of pioneer and streamline media centers. contributing to politicsonline.com and serves on other editorial and communication organizations. joining him today, we are welcome -- we want to welcome mr. koster -- josh koster, who is the managing partner of chong and costern agency that specializes in win or lose situations. highly contested issue campaigns, i guess, as well as political campaigns. he has clients in the fortune 500, among elsewhere. he has been known to coin the term nano targeting. so we thank you for your time and welcome you both here today and -- [ applause ] >> well, thanks for having us. we're going to split this in half. i'm going to start out, we're going to talk about using social media for our advocacy. probably go about 20 minutes or so and then josh will

-canadian relations and lectures at johns hopkins and is an adjunct professor at the american school public affairs. he is also an all bright fellow -- a fulbright fellow. mary scott greenswood specializes in trade policy issues on both sides of the order -- of the border. she is also appointed by president clinton. pamela wallin is on the senate committee for defense and also on foreign trade. the issue is the consulate general from 2002-2006. the former broadcast journalist is also a senior adviser on canadian-u.s. relations for the council of the americas in washington. gary doer was appointed ambassador in 2009. before that he was in manitoba and worked on cross border issues such as trade, climate change and darker culture. -- climate change, and agriculture. now he is fighting protectionist sentiment in some circles and still from time to time is dispelling the myth that 9/11 terrorists entered the u.s. from canada. and the national editor of mcclean is with us this evening. first, let me bring in luiza savage to see with the state of relations is between our two countries. she