when they told you leukemia, what was your first thought? >> is she gonna die? >> reporter: 40 years ago, kids with olivia's type of cancer had just a 5% chance of survival. now it's higher than 50%. after chemotherapy and two bone marrow transplants, olivia shows no signs of cancer. are you feeling better? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: since the mid-'70s, the survival rate for most childhood cancers has climbed from 58% to 80%. compare that to just 68% for adults. dr. paul meyers treats kids at new york's memorial sloan- kettering cancer center. he credits improvements in cancer-fighting drugs. >> children are healthier. they have not done damage to their bodies with smoking and drinking. and we can use more intensive therapies in children than our colleagues who treat adults. >> reporter: those intensive therapies may have long-lasting effects. a study of 14,000 childhood cancer survivors found 10% developed new tumors. radiation and anti-cancer drugs are suspected. >> if there's a key to survival, what is it? >> have faith. >> reporter: whether it's faith or scienc

one of the reasons was leukemia could be counted. they talk about in this book, things begin to measurement. whenever you measure something to me begin to perform a scientific committee. this is a time before cat scans and mris because it is hard to count the site of a tumor because it's buried inside. the kenyan because of the tumor of the blood to be counted because you could perform a bone marrow autopsies and you could see the depth depth of the leukemic cell and say this worked or didn't work. as an objective medicine about the increase or decrease of leukemic cells. and a farber became very interested in this. now, farber soon figured out one of the things that would be interesting but he defined a chemical that would thereby kill these leukemic cells and launch. therefore he launched history. they didn't have such a chemical. he fantasized about a chemical. it turns out there was an indian chemist who was born in india. his name is yes to corral and he had to boston, to harvard to study the school of tropical health. know what

on page 60 and i can't find for the first patient, series of patients with leukemia. the only thing i knew about this child was that he was 3-years-old and that he had lived in boston and his initials because that was in the paper. so i was in boston than and i began to send out these e-mails on the list which would say if you happen to know a child with leukemia in the 40's please, call me, please write to me, etc. and months passed by and there was absolutely nothing. there was no response. so i could saying to myself and on page 60 this is never going to get written. then i got rejected and i thought i went on vacation to my parents' house in india, and someone said to me yella has only one biographer a. siegel biographer was written that i know of and someone said to be the biography is 85-years-old but he lives three blocks away from my parents' house in india. [laughter] and so someone said going to talk to yella's viagra fer. saugatuck to yella's biographer and we are having a conversation and talk for an hour about his chemistry etc., etc. peery i am about to

just finished treatment with leukemia and tonight the five year-old boy was honored for being a survivorthose still battling blood cancer. it was far from leukemia and lymphoma societies' net of the walking in their carrying balloons that were lit up for survivors and read for supporters as well as gold was to represent those who lost their lives to a blood cancer a 17 year-old is number one at the box office for the second week in a row. during $22 million this weaken enough to keep brad pitt to some money lot of the top spiders' some of the other box office winners can't [ female announcer ] every box of general mills big g cereals can help your kids' school get extra stuff. ♪ ♪ like musical instruments. ♪ ♪ and new art supplies. ♪ ♪ because they're the only cereals with box tops for education. last year, schools earned over ten million dollars from big g cereals. you can raise money for your kids' school. look for this logo... only on big g cereals. you can make a difference. every cereal box counts. into youfemale announcer ] now there's a delicious way to help get omega-3 dha into y

around two million or so in the perfect people left there are at grave risk of developing cancer and leukemia it will continue to be further contaminated it is the material has landed on the soil so concentrated in the food and will continue to be taken in through the air as large amounts of radiation continues to leak out of the three damaged reactors and the four damaged fuel cores after caldicott joins me now from australia to talk more about that this issue dr caldicott it's wonderful to see you thank you so much for joining us thank you tom you were recently quoted i just read a quote basically as saying that everybody in northwestern should be evacuated is that so and if so why where should they go and how long do they need to stay away. i didn't actually say in the article everybody should be evacuated but there are some very very hot areas and american planes three months after the accident when top with measuring facilities and measured three to fourteen point five terabit thrills me three to four fourteen point seven million big thrills in certain areas and fukushima when the evacua

leukemia, breast cancer and colon cancer. shortages are forcing us to change the way we treat our patients. often a drug in short supply is potentially curative. there is no reasonable substitute. are practice treats many patients with non hodgkin's leukemia a life-threatening but curable disease. cytarabine is a central component of treatment but that agent has been and remains intermittently in short supply. physicians have been forced to tell patients this potentially cure of drug is not immediately available. treatment delay can result in grave consequences in these critically ill patients. in other situations they're all of canada of drugs but waif more side effects or dramatically more expensive. standard treatment for non hodgkin's lymphoma is the top regimen which includes doxorubicin which is in shortage. a colleague shared the story of a young woman who was diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy. that is a situation that doesn't happen very often but involves potential risk for the mother and child. because of the

. >> i have akcute leukemia. >> reporter: this child has been fighting leukemia for five years.ut now he's one of the students enrolled in lieu sill packard children's hospital school, a fully accredited palo alto unified school. it was established in 1924 and has 500 full-time students. another 500 kids come to hospital school when they're in treatment. brothers and sisters are welcome, too, if the family is far from home. the teachers work with their home districts, give standard e standardized tests and the s.a.t.s. and when the kids are too sick to come to the classroom, the teachers join them at the bedside. >> it starts to have an effect on their attitude about their health. >> reporter: when the children are finally well enough to leave the hospital school and go back to their regular neighborhood school, the outreach continues. the staff here works with the staff there to make sure the children are academically on target but they also help to make sure that the transition is smooth and that the teachers there can answer some of the more difficult health questions as well

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cecilia ingram lost her daughter to leukemia. two years later she kept going on about it to the people she worked with. the meaness, cruelest boss? we'll discuss that in "kelly's court." will the dna in amanda knox's case be the key to getting her released? why one man following this case closely says this case is on the verge of collapse. >> she is anxious. she is glad that court is back in session again. it's been a long summer for her, knowing that she's innocent, and, you know -- megyn: fox news alert we now have video from the shooting out in carson city, nevada at an international house of pancakes restaurant there. trace gallagher learning more details on exactly how this went down, who was behind it, and who was in danger, trace. >> reporter: megyn we'll show you the video, we are getting our first eyewitness accounts of what happened on the scene there. a man who owns a local barbecue place that is in the same strip mall as the international house of pancakes gave the reno gazette a detailed run down. he said a machine g

and i want these people with leukemia not to go through the pain and the suffering that i've been going through. and now the medicine is at arm's length and i can't grab it. >> reporter: and now, it's not just chemotherapy drugs. but 209 different critical drugs, antibiotics, anesthesia drugs and even crash cart drugs, used for heart attack victims, all in dangerously short supply. forcing some hospitals to buy their medicines from profiteers who can charge a staggering 650% more for a drug. by one count, 15 deaths now blamed on the shortage. some hospitals forced to improvise, making mistakes. >> this growing trend has the potential to impact our entire health care system. >> reporter: around the clock race. hospitals scrambling to find drugs their patients must have. >> we actually have to take pharmacist time away from taking care of patients to be able to manage these drug shortages. >> reporter: even at one of the nation's best hospitals, the cleveland clinic, dr. mandy leonard hired a special pharmacist, whose only job is to search out drugs in scarce supply. >> it's very scary. a

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leukemia, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and colon cancer. this forces us to change the way we treat our patients. often, a drug in short supply is tentively curative. there's no substitute. we treat patients who have leukemia, aml -- a life threatening, but potentially curable disease. one of the central components of treatment for aml, but that agent has been and remains in short supply today. physicians are forced to tell patients this potentially curative drug is not immediately available to them. treatment delay results in grave consequences to these patients. in other situations, there's alternative drug, but they are less effective and have bad side effects. limb foam mas has the chop regimen which includes a drug that's in shortage. a colleague sharedded the story of a young woman who was diagnosed with limb foe ma during preeing pregnancy. that doesn't happen very oven, but involves risks for the mother and child. he was treated with a substitute, one for which the risk of the baby is not well-known and may be less effective. oncolog

. >> you know what else is going on saturday is light the night, the leukemia and lymphoma walk. i will be out there saturday. >> in reston? >> yeah, in reston. >> yes, a sweat shirt, though, but quiet. this is a great shot. >> yes, it is. >> this is a sunrise from ernie wood in edgewater, maryland. ernie did everything right. like that. thank you. to mitt. we need your name and location and a description. >> all right, top. >>> still ahead, several cases of hate-filled vandalism in montgomery county. >> they shocked people in several communities. now police have new information on who might be behind it all. >>> she was the first female firefighter in montgomery county, but today she began her last shift. i'm lindsey mastis. that story is coming up. >> but right now, a look at the highest paid actresses in hollywood. number one is tina fey. forbes.com reports she earned $13 million last year. mp p. top paid actresses in tv. we'll be right back. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fen

were with your teacher on stage that talked about using skype to connect to the student who had leukemia wonderful and got a lot of response for that and want to see more people doing it. 2,600 messages so far. keep them coming. >> and over to tamron hall. >> what is your name. >> i am from manhattan. i would like to put the spotlight on science education in the lower grades. i think it gets lost in the math and literacy testing. how do we make sure there are robust science programs, because this is when we have to hook them and not middle school or high school. >> you got applause. >> i am the colorado state teacher of the year, and i am here with my colleagues who are the state teachers of the year, who are on the cutting edge of innovation every single day. it's important that we look at the innovation happening inside and outside of the classroom, so as we talk about the students, we are talking about multiple measures of achievement and multiple ways to bring excellence to the classroom. >> thank you, and what is your name? >> i am john and district of columbia state teacher of the

affect a broad spectrum of critically important drugs including oncology drugs to treat lynn chollet, leukemia, breast and other cancers and drugs without which surgery's have to be postponed and antibiotics to remedy life-threatening bacterial infections. without these drugs, patients' lives are at risk. drug scarcities generally affect sterile injectable drugs. these drugs are technically difficult to make and each drug is usually manufactured by only one or a handful of producers. if only one company develops manufacturing problems, which is not uncommon, other companies may have little access capacity to help fill the need t read with the aging of the population and field sourcing of drug manufacturing, the increasing consolidation of drug companies, and the general adoption of a just-in-time approach to the drug production and distribution this problem may be significantly worse unless the media measures including congressional action not taken to address this mltiple causes. representative degette has introduced legislation that would be an important first of in ths process. h.r. 2245, t

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historical case and it's an important case of a child named chad green who had a curable form of leukemiaand this is in the 1960s and 70s if i remember correctly. his parents decided not to do chemotherapy and there was a very complicated case in which they try to make the unfortunate thing about this case, these particular cases without leukemia was curable and the parents ultimately decided to move to mexico, where he underwent some other form of therapy and unfortunately died. so one has to have humility and figuring out what to do in situations like this, where the treatable form of cancer and a problem with trying to figure out how to treat a child. i don't know whether to keep the particular case. postcode dr. mukherjee, she also asked about and it does. i want to ask who is barbara bradfield? >> guest: and amazing women. yarbrough bradfield is one of the longest survivors that you could take a medicine and all the cells in your body would ultimately in the 1980s and 1990s, new medicine began to appear can only kill the cancer cells as they are every other cell in your body. she too

. >>> police say 18-year-old angie gomez told classmates and teachers she had leukemia and just six monthsve. the school helped fund-raisers for her collecting about $17,000. but police started to investigate after some said gomez didn't look sick. the case is now in the hands of the horizon city district attorney. >>> 7:18. fire officials in sacramento fear they have a serial arsonist on their hands. firefighters fought six different fires yesterday. witnesses say they saw a man riding his bike on the parkway setting flames along the way. on saturday, there were nine different fires in the area. residents are frightened about this and worried about their statement. >> very concerned i westbounder should i go to sleep at night or wonder should i watch to see what happens. >> they are describing him as a white -- as white chair riding a 10-speed bike spotted in that area at the time of the fire. >>> some is parents have found out a way to get the mayoral candidates to pitch in this saturday to help with fund- raising so far, eight of the of the candidates have agreed to show up on wash -- a

i found his insight on this matter most i will leukemia naturing. general hayden did not quarrel with reducing the number of troops in afghanistan. however, he was troubled by the timing of the drawdown. specifically, the general stated he would have kept the troops in place until the conclusion of the 2012 summer fighting season. that being said, i have absolute confidence in our new commander, general john allen. he succeeds general petraeus with whom i met over there in afghanistan and have met on other occasions and who has done a tremendous singular service for our country. i have great respect for him and i expect general allen to be -- to be just as good. general allen was one of the vital catalysts in the city awakening in iraq. the city awakening and our counterinsurgency strategy are considered by many to be the driving forces for our success during the iraqi surge, and of course we all remember what general petraeus did there as well. i am confident that general allen will maintain the hard-won momentum our forces achieved in afghanistan,

mark up reports out for drugs that true leukemia, 3100% for drugs to help cancer patients retain bone marrow. 45 percent summer marked 1000% above normal and 1/4 were marked up to nine%. where and how gray market vendors are getting these medicines, no one knows. how can the integrity of these drugs be ascertained which is a question that you know. that is what premier has taken a position that pharmacies should avoid these vendors and stick to primary distributors. in times of shortage come up pharmacies may need to look elsewhere. we would develop a set of best practices which includes verifying the products fees, licensure, and verifying a vendor is authorized to sell the product in confirming the vendor is a wholesale distributor. we need to fix the drug shortage crisis. we wanted to consider the following. speedy approval process for medically necessary drugs that appear to be in shortage. encourage fda to engaged stakeholders and discussions to determine whether a drug is necessary. the objective is to prioritize drugs that are necessary for treatment and may be at risk for shor

and they include some frontline therapies for breast, colon, lung, and testicular and leukemia.nly 56 drugs were on the da's short list. last year, more than three times that many. i'm joined now by someone who knows this problem intimately, susan kennedy, a lawyer from missouri and breast cancer patient. her drug of choice for chemotherapy was with rationed. sus susan, you wrote a powerful column about your ordeal in "usa today." tell us about the day you learned there wasn't enough taxall to go around. >> i didn't have any idea this was a problem at all. my doctor contacted me and told me that there might not be any paclataxal for me the next morning. and i just paused and i guess from the look on my face he said, really, i'm not kidding. because it's such a hard thing to believe that it could be happening in the united states. you know, i did a little research myself and we talked about it, and it was basically devastating on top of everything else to find out that you might not be able to get the drug you need to survive. >> and you say that this shortage and this decision b

. >>> and secelia ingram lost her daughter to leukemia, two years later, she had the nerve to still beng coworkers about her grief instead of having the decency to shut up about it, because, quote, the girl is dead. the maniest boss ever? in kelly's court. see you top of the 1:00. jon: state of texas is dealing with those devastating wildfires we've been telling you about, fueled by a severe drought. now some folks are trying to do something about it by bringing a little more rain from the few clouds in the sky. nearly 85 percent of texas is in exceptional drought conditions right now, 99 percent considered severe or worse. this is being called the worst drought year on record there. some parts of texas have seen 68 days with temperatures above 100 degrees. check out the map. yellow, showing states that are abnormally dry in this country, dark red means exceptional drought conditions. with us now, stephanie beale, project meteorologist for the southwest texas rain enhancement association. stephanie, rain enhancement? we're basically talking about cloud seeding, right? >> yes, that's co

year or next year, but if you wait another 5-10 years plus, you're going to have multiple myelomas, leukemiasetera. so unfortunately, our heart goes to them for what they did, and they're in a very tough situation, but today, with these studies, i as a cancer surgeon cannot tell you for sure whether there is any conclusion from these studies that came out. bill: why do all these studies contradict each other? can you reach a finding based on anything you're looking for? >> i think what we need is a real independent group of people that would come and look at this, and really -- because we can take the same data and interpret it in two different ways and come up with two different conclusions. but they found some trepb in the increase of this cancer. it's just not statistically significant and that's what we're trying to say here. you look at these people, in the core of that, were exposed highly compared to other people, you may see a much higher increase. bill: doctor, thank you for coming in today, david samadi, *t, part of our fox news medical a team. go to foxnews.com/america's pneum room

been used to treat certain types of acute leukemia.ystal formation in the vial of this drug represented quality and manufacturing problem that led to a disruption in production and a shortage they receive tremendous publicity across the nation within recent months. in this case the fda worked with the manufacture, found that the files were warmed the crystals would dissolve in the drug could then be safely administered to the patient and as a result of this collaboration, the manufacture was then subsequently able to ship the vials to health care professionals along with the letter from the fda notifying them to inspect for crystal formation and if present warm the crystals and this way the collaboration led to ensuring up holdings patient safety. as a result of this work we can report today that this drug shortage, this well reported drug shortage has been recently resolved. in limited circumstances the fda can allow the temporary importation of critical drugs and when the shortage came not be resolved immediately however there are se

it may create a job, but five years from now i will have leukemia. 10 years from now you are going to have something wrong. how does that -- how is that actually cost effective in the long run? how can we allow lobbying in congress? our d.e.p. is one of the lowest rate in the state. we are used as an example of bad d.e.p. regulations. trouble because of the gas companies lobbying our representatives that we elected to protect us. how is lowering chemical protection, epa protection actually going to benefit me or my family? >> maybe i was not clear. i am not suggesting that we reverse the progress we have made over these recent decades. what i am is suggesting is that the new way of regulations that the epa is trying to impose -- some of them go too far and happeno suddenly without examining the implication. if the benefit of a new regulation is actually going to save lives and it is measurable and we can clely establish a significant benefit, we need to do it. some of these cases, the benefits are tenuous and the costs are real. i have to disagree of your characterization of the d.e.p

a mom loses her daughter at age 15 to leukemia.m. >> gretchen: so at her work cubicle, she put up a picture of her deceased daughter and also her daughter's ballet slippers. you can imagine, that seems pretty normal to want to honor your child who you had 15 years with and you have a picture of her at your desk. some people had a problem with that. >> steve: the supervisor about a year and a half later came over and said, can you take that stuff down because it's bugging some of the other employees. and after she went home, she developed heart palpitations, eventually she wound up having surgery for her heart. and she quit her job. she then turned around and sued orthoneo, a big pharmaceutical company in new jersey, saying that she was under so much emotional stress given what she was told, she deserved some money. now a judge has come out and said no. they did not meet the standard of extreme distress. >> brian: here is the quote from the judge, if courts had to preside over every instance of rude and thoughtless boss behavior, th

it may create a job, but five years from now i will have leukemia. 10 years from now you are going to have something wrong. how does that -- how is that actually cost effective in the long run? how can we allow lobbying in congress? our d.e.p. is one of the lowest rate in the state. we are used as an example of bad d.e.p. regulations. trouble because of the gas companies lobbying our representatives that we elected to protect us. how is lowering chemical protection, epa protection actually going to benefit me or my family? >> maybe i was not clear. i am not suggesting that we reverse the progress we hav made over these recent decades. what i am is suggesting is that the new way of regulations that the epa is trying to impose -- some of them go too far and happen to suddenly without examining the implication. if theenefit of a new regulation is actually going to save lives and it is measurable and we can clearly establish a signifant benefit, we need to do it. in some of these cases, the benefits are tenuous andhe costs are real. i have to disagree of your characterization of the d.e.p

anna is a bright, outgoing young girl who is fighting leukemia. diagnosed just a few months ago, ana spent two weeks of treatment at the hospital in philadelphia. she will still need additional treatments in the next 2 1/2 years. an cy a strong personal remine -- anna is a strong personal reminder why i introduced this bill. we hope to send a clear message to the obama administration and the department of health and human services that this bill is important to ensuring that children receive adequate health care. i would like to thank mr. pallone and all the 114 co-sponsors that worked on this legislation, and i urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. doyle: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. doyle: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the children's hospital graduate medical education support re-authorization act offered b

affect a broad spectrum of critically important drugs including oncology drugs to treat lynn chollet, leukemia, breast and other cancers and drugs without which surgery's have to be postponed and antibiotics to remedy life-threatening bacterial infections. without these drugs, patients' lives are at risk. drug scarcities generally affect sterile injectable drugs. these drugs are technically difficult to make and each drug is usually manufactured by only one or a handful of producers. if only one company develops manufacturing problems, which is not uncommon, other companies may have little access capacity to help fill the need to read with the aging of the population and field sourcing of drug manufacturing, the increasing consolidation of drug companies, and the general adoption of a just-in-time approach to the drug production and distribution this problem may be significantly worse unless the media measures including congressional action not taken to address this multiple causes. representative degette has introduced legislation that would be an important first of in this process. h.r. 2245