but this lung is much softer. >> they replace victoria's fibrotic lungs with the donor lungs, one atnd then, the moment of truth. that's a lung inflated. >> and the right is inflated as well. >> the lungs are both fully inflated and victoria takes her first breath. >> how do you think it went overall? >> i think it went great overall. >> after four hours of surgery victoria is breathing on her own with a new pair of lungs. >> it can change for her life. >> before there was no life. just whatever was left. >> 47 years of marriage, and now, i believe, many more years. >> yes, we are sure hoping so. >> honestly for me, that was the most humbling experience i've ever had, watching lungs being extracted from vicky's body and being replaced. you know the donor the surge the hospital the ocs machine all came together at that perfect time. and now, vicky has a brand-new chance at life. it's truly miraculous. it's cutting edge technology isn't it? >> very much so. if this device is as efficient and efficacious as we think it will be then it can be a game-changer in lung transplantation. >> so

everyone knows you want to catch lung cancer early. i think you need to catch prostate cancer early. how do i do that as an internist. you mentioned one that a lot of internists have gotten away from. you have to do the internal rectal examine and feel for a ridge on nodule. we get to feel about 30% of the prostate. if i feel abnormality i send the patient to the a urologist. also the psa, i follow a trend. if there is an an normal friend and i can't figure out something else, sends the patient to a urologist and consider a biopsy. mris are getting more sophisticated. the more accurate they are the more they help guided biopsies. >> we are going to take a break and talk more about the psa and what it means when we come back. , when we come back. can this decadent, fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. fiber one streusel. ♪ ♪ the nissan rogue, with safety shield technologies. the only thing left to fear is your imagination. now get 0% financing or up to $1,000 back on the 2015 nissan rogue. nis

toxic, and then we transplant the lung back.lieve this will come to fruition over the next five or six years. >> it may sound like science fiction, but again when you see the machine working you begin to believe it. >> pretty cool, right? i mean, to keep this organ going on its own outside of the body. it's not just hearts. it's lungs, livers, they want to hit every organ in the body, what do you think? >> did you actually touch that thing? >> oh, yeah. >> had a did it feel like? >> it felt like a fist clenching over and over. it was warm, a little bit slimy. it's a pig party. >> is this better than a cooler? >> yes, the biggest thing they're looking at is increasing the amount of time that heart can survive outside of the body. when you put that heart on ice the organ is slowly dying. that means it only has four hours until it needs to hit the recipient. with this technique it keeps it alive and warm for eight hours ten hours, that's a huge difference. they're not just talking about it for transporting organs. imagine a room fu

when they reach adulthood, heart disease, smoke or lung cancer. dr. mcculley has many years of experience treating sick children who are victims of secondhand smoke. she teaches families ways to overcome the problem often sharing an emotional experience she had when caring for one child with cystic fibro six whose grandfather was unwittingly subjecting him to cigarette smoke. >> i said to him while i know that you know that your smoking affects your health, but did you know it affects your grandson's health. as soon as he learned that, me a commitment to quit smoking and he's been smoke free for over ten years. >> you you hear about secondhand smoke, but you don't know exactly how it can affect children. >> that's certainly -- i'm glad marc is bringing this to the surface. it was a great report that you've done. it's absolutely important because in adults, it causes heart disease and lung cancer. about 7,000 cases related to second happened smoking. 41,000 cases of heart and lung disease which is significant. >> from secondhand smoke? >> secondhand sm

that michelle need. >> my hearties now become a problem because of the lungs. so i'm in heart failure now. >> reporter: she also need a heart transplant and that is why two hospitals had to reject her as a patient but a call from houston has change her life. >> we have accepted you, and all of your problems and all of your other risks. >> reporter: michelle was accepted in the houston met the difficulties transplant program. it performs 100 lung transplants last year, by volume consistently in the top three in the world performing a record 143 of them in 202. >> it was like a huge weight i mean i just had this relief, tears of joy. >> reporter: she's scheduled for a heart biopsy and if all goes well the next step is finding just the right donor with ip f carries significant challenging. >> this patient might be 6 feet, lung capacity may be somebody 5 feet two or 5-foot three so that makes it more difficult to find a lung for a patient with idaho path pennsylvania i can pulmonary fibrosis. >> reporter: but there is great hope. patient whose survive after the fir

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but some hospitals use it for patients like pastor freeman whose lungs aren't working. this cardiac surgeon runs the program. >> in a situation like this what the pump does is replaces the function of the lungs. >> reporter: ecmo works by withdrawing the patient's blood, pumping oxygen into it then returning it to the body. in pastor freeman's case it can give the lungs time to heal. >> once we decide to institute something like ecmo we know the risk of that patient dying is around 50%. >> i didn't cry, i didn't feel like crying didn't want to cry. i said i don't have time to cry. i'm in a fight. i'm going to fight for life. >> reporter: pastor freeman stayed on the ecmo machine for three weeks and just when doctors were beginning to give up his lunns started to heal. he was going to live. dr. molina says one remarkable thing about this case. even though the pastor was close to death, his family never doubted his survival. >> i personally truly believe that they must have an impact on him in the final outcome. >> he is where he is today because of the combination of car

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see getting the lungs sr. rah desperately needed. sarah is so proud of her mom. >> i just wanted to thank everyone you lecked my mom for this award. and i just hope that all the other kids waiting for lungs and other different types of organs get a fair chance to get their organs too. >> well spoken. the council gave sarah a certificate of recognition today for her bravery. she is still going through rehabilitation to troy to gain all that strength back. her mother says it is just wonderful to see her doing things other girls do like riding her bike and swimming in the pool. congratulations to them both. >> absolutely. >> valentine's day this weekend we're sharing some of your stories of roman. >> fox 29's karen hepp has more on delaware couple looking back on their love almost six decades later. >> val tins day just around the corner so we're anything about things romantic today. we communicate with an e-mail a tech message. but i'm going to take you back about 60 years ago. to a time of love letters and introduce you to the engles.

just when doctors were beginning to give up, his lungs started to heal. he was going to live. dr. molina says one remarkable thing about this case, even though the pastor was close to death, his family never doubted his survival. >> i personally truly believe that they must have an impact in the final outcome. >> he is where he is today because of the combination of care, with my faith and with the doctors. >> reporter: this is pastor freeman the day he came back to his church surrounded by a cheering congregation overcome with emotion. though his lungs are still healing, he says this experience has made him feel morale live than ever. >> i'm getting better every day. any day above ground is a good day. i feel great to be alive. >> good for him. dr. molina tells us most hospitals in our area do not have an ekmo program because it requires a lost training and experience. >>> it is absolutely frigid. we've got 11 on the weather bug right there. >> 11 degrees. >> that's without the wind. >> that's before you put the windchill on it. >> this is the coldest day we've seen so far? >> ab

in pastor freeman's case it can give the lungs time to heal. >> once we decide to institute something like this, we know the risk of that patient dying is around 50%. >> i didn't cry, didn't feel like crying didn't want to cry. i said i don't have time to cry. i'm in a fight. i'm in a fight for life. >> reporter: pastor freeman stayed on the ecmo machine for three weeks, and just when doctors were beginning to give up hiss lungs started to heal. he was going to live. dr. molina says one remarkable thing about this case even though the pastor was close to death, his family never doubted his survival. >> i personally truly believe that they must have an impact on him in the final outcome. >> he is where he is today because of the combination of care with my faith and with the doctors. >> reporter: this is pastor freeman the day he came back to his church surrounded by a cheering congregation overcome with emotion. though his lungs are still healing, he says this experience has made him feel more alive than ever. >> i'm getting better every day. that's my confession. any day above ground

>> the collapsed lung would not allow for a c-section. it was too dangerous to be opening her up with all that fluid build up, so sara had vivian basically pushing with one lung. it was so difficult, but she had the baby. you want to be part of that 15% that survives more than five years. you want to be part of that group so badly. and you say to yourself, why not us, you know? it wasn't about "how can we have good days to the end?" we didn't focus on that enough. we're trying to stabilize the situation and try to become a little... spend a little bit of time as a family. but it was just... it was an impossible situation, impossible summer. i mean it's just excruciating. >> gawande: when i came on the scene was when she got diagnosed with a second cancer. you know, in my mind what i was thinking was i wouldn't offer this surgery because the lung cancer is going to take her life. and yet i didn't feel i could say that to you all. i think we started talking about the experimental therapy that you all would like, or were hoping to get on for

go do 100 push-ups, expand your lung capacity.y mom insisted i played a woodwind instrument to improve my lung capacity. i somehow survived past the point where the doctors say i wouldn't survive. emily: you were in chernobyl. max: i was pretty close to chernobyl. emily: you were there when chernobyl happened. max: pretty close, within 90 miles. a couple weeks after it happened, it became giant. when it happened, it was a very sunny day. emily: and you escaped. max: my parents found out through a friend of a friend in the government that something really awful happened. at the chernobyl power station. because i had a family full of physicists, nuclear power station accidents are no joke. she packed me and my younger brother onto a train and sent us off the next morning. you would get tested as you were coming off the train with a homemade geiger counter. one of my feet was setting off a geiger counter. people were saying, we may have to cut off his foot. beeping means he's radioactive. apparently there was a rose thorn on the bott

it's the tar heat that is associated with lung cancer. the second answer is that no nicotine escapes the user. we normally breathe in air that is.04 cash diekdzrbon dioxide and 16 percent oxygen. it's on views -- obvious that a useren inhales the rest. exercising choice is to be valued as long as your choice doesn't diminish mine. secondhand exposure is first hand abuse. by the way, people who live in seismic zones should not live in glass houses. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening, i'm john from san francisco. this is about the funeral of a young black boy. i was walking by the church and little old church. upfront a lonely couple sat. in the casket was a child. i can picture him living curly hair and smiling face i have seen perhaps a thousand in my early. then rose a black preacher from a little wooden desk and he said don't be weeping for this pretty bid of clay. for the lord didn't give thank you baby by 100,000 miles and he keeps it's until your hearts are grown and until what you are setting

that's going to be very difficult to deal with the breathing issues if she developed lung injury fromt as well as to try to keep her brain profused because of what happened. it would have been much easier if they had a pulse to bring her back from. >> in fact if there was water in tub, if the remains or there was water in her lungs, putting her in a medically induced coma does that allow doctors to express water may be in her lungs out. it's just anesthesia like a similar anesthesia for an elective surgery. allow it time to heal and allow decrease in energy metabolism to the brain so that potentially it could heal. i know that she has some swelling in the brain, which is not a great prognostic sign. they're trying to allow the brain to rest and heal. even though the eyes are closed. there's plenty of brain activity going on. the free radical formation causes the swelling in the brain as almost a side affect. keep in mind your brain requires blood profusion at every second. five seconds without blood fro profusion and your brain will see a response. that's what makes people pass out. i

go do 100 push-ups, expand your lung capacity.y mom insisted i played a woodwind instrument to expand my lung capacity. i played clarinet. and somehow survived past the point where the doctors said we're going to stop predicting when he's going to die, since he seems to be surviving. emily: you were in chernobyl? max: i was not in chernobyl. i was a couple of -- pretty close to chernobyl. emily: you were there when chenobyl happened? max: oh, yeah. i was very much in kiev. i think it was about 90 miles. so it's pretty close. yeah. it was -- it was very anti-climactic, retrospectively. a couple weeks after it happened, it became this giant, terrifying thing. but, when it happened, it was a very sunny day. emily: and you escaped. max: my parents found out through a friend of a friend in the government that something really awful happened at the chernobyl nuclear power station. and because i had a family full of physicists, they were like, nuclear power station accidents is no joke. basically packed me and my younger brother onto a t

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how do they affect our lungs?t to show physiologically we're at a cellular level. it studied mice as well. what happens when they are exposed to e liquids and vaporized nicotine. the cells had more oxygen-free radicals, which are damage to go a cell. they cause cell stress. they can change the viability of the cell can long term. they demonstrated much more inflammation. we know inflammation is bad anywhere in the body particularly in the lungs. so the message here is that and i always go on the record and say i believe they are safer than traditional cigarettes because they don't contain all the carcinogens that cause cancer. the issue is i always say to people you can't just assume you're inhaling something into your lung and you may not have chronic lung issues from it. people have copd. that can be very very damaging if not life threatening in the end. >> when we hear about formaldehyde getting into the lungs. >> it's not all of them. whether they do random sampling they find varying amounts of contaminants. f

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it says lung cancer has passed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths. the organization says the reason, no surprise smoking. that habit peaked years later for women than it did for men. in poor countries, breast cancer remains the top killer of women. >>> and on the breast cancer front, researchers in florida may have a breakthrough in the treatment of an aggressive form of breast cancer known as triple negative. about 15 to 20% of breast cancer patients have triple negative cancer. it can't be treated by estrogen blockers. and even when treated by chemotherapy, the disease is likely to return and spread. researchers at the mayo clinic are planning trials for a vaccine that could prevent the disease from coming back. we'll see what happens. >>> you know facebook helps you stay connected to friends and family. actually envying those people could also lead to your depression. researchers found students who compare their friends' activities to their own lives had a higher risk of depression. experts say you should try to avoid making that kind of compariso

it shows lung capacity. one thing that stood out is it's a lot of information.t know what to do with it, it's a call app. it's useful for a professional athlete who can take the data, skills. >> how did you find the watches? >> i dried the basis and fit bit. it's fascinating to me. i have these questions - how accurate are they. i have walked tries was far according to the fit bit than the basis. and that is like - brings all the data into question. as a scientist we want to make value judgment. they don't give you accuracy. >> could it be a difference of strides. >> i'm bringing the same amount of calories. it doesn't spend a lot of time educating you on what the data means and how to interpret it. >> i tried out the fit bit. it was higher in terms of the step count. you can check it. you can watch it tally up the steps. you are trying to develop a lifestyle of habits. using this and the app. from green stadiums to birds with goggles, i check my pulse. talking about the science, my heart is beating a little faster. for more exciting innovations join us next tim

in fact, the pulmonologist said he had scarred lung tissue. >> but still, the cause couldn't be found. it appeared to ron's co-workers that the stress associated with his son's illness was starting to get to him. >> ron was sitting at his desk looking at his computer screen, which wasn't unusual. but when i walked closer to his desk, i realized that he was staring at a blank screen. >> and ron exhibited other symptoms. >> he came out of the grocery store and could not remember where he had parked his car or what car he even drove. it took him about five hours to come back from the grocery store when it should have taken him 20 minutes. and when he gets home, everything's melted. and he said, i don't know, i had a blackout or something. >> i didn't know what was going on. and the wheels were coming off. and it was -- it was -- i was scared. >> ron went to a neurologist for testing. the results showed a dramatic decrease in his cognitive abilities. >> my doctor had told me that i was about halfway through the progression of alzheimer's, and that's based on my neurological test results.

and so he was in a situation where he was bleeding into his lungs, and i get a phone call saying that we did all, you know, we put in the stent, whatever and he's bleeding into his lungs, and he doesn't want to be intubated. and he was a young guy. and the choice was just let him drown, bleeding into his lungs just let him die or do manager about it. and -- or do something about it t options, probably i've done it myself and then not really thinking about whether the patients understood the options. so, in this particular case, i knew that the interns and residents hadn't done a good job explaining to this fellow -- they probably asked him, if you were -- would you ever want to be on a breathing machine? and he probably said, no i don't want to -- but he didn't know exactly what he was signing up for. so they were going to actually let him die. ' and i said, i'm sure you didn't have the kind of conversation you needed to have with this fellow. i'm going to put the breathing tube in. so we put the breathing tube in, and even though he had written in the chart do not rhesus rhesus---h -

people were saying if you show them lung cancer, i don't want that to be my lung. >> there's this danger with the vaccine and something gets a little messed around and instead of perceiving the danger being from the disease they perceive it being from the vaccine. it raises the level of emotion. raising the level of emotion which the vaccers think is a positive thing, seems to back fire. >> some of the tweets actually threatened violence, the kids of antivaccers should be taken and forcefully vaccinated. the imagery of forcibly vaccinating a child is only going to strengthen those who are against vaccination. >> people who talk about privacy, states rights, they talk about their liberty. and you know you start to back people up against the wall, and it brings out kind of the worst impulses. it's like they're all against me and i've got to bunker down. >> yeah. >> so what does work, i think maybe that's what we should be looking at. what happened with ebola in west africa, what did work? talking with the tribal elders respected he people in people in the community. once you get them on yo