it would be great if we could provide every village with a medical kit. >> reporter: the medical kits are providing some relief in people's daily lives, especially in remote villages that used to have little access to health care. nhk world, rakhine, myanmar. >> turning now to some flash news from around the region. we start here in thailand where a lunar new year celebration became a tragedy. festivals turned deadly after fireworks exploded into flames, showering a dense residential community with burning debris. at least three people were killed and more than 50 injured. over 50 homes and structures in the area were damaged. police are still investigating the cause of the blast. in sri lanka's largest city of colombo, at least 31 people have been injured following a riot at a prison. local media say tuesday's unrest broke out when guards conducted a raid inside the jail. the facility is the country's largest maximum-security prison and holds hundreds of suspected rebels. that will wrap up our bulletin in bangkok. >>> "newsline" is the place to turn to for the latest on japan post-ma

are for a generic medication.e all know the generic medications are cheaper than their brand named counterparts. but one of the generic and brand named versions of a medication really identical? dr. joshua joins us this morning with answers to that. good morning. good to see you, as always. when can a generic version of a brand named medication become available to the public? when does the fda say it is okay to have a -- >> well, a patent is provided for 20 years, protection. but that patentish ud before the medication reaches the stage where it can be available to the public. generally the development phase takes about ten years. so you are talking about having brand named medication available to the public for somewhere around 7, 8, 9, 10 years. >> all of the other -- companies get -- >> after that, once that pantent runs out, then general air can become available. >> we assume generic medication is identical to brand named medication. is that true? >> this is where a lot of people may be surprised here. what th

. >> medic! medic! >> what happened?! what happened?! >> she got shot! >> get back! >> reporter: where democracy is corrupted by greed and dissent is crushed. >> let him go! >> reporter: that's how anonymous sees america, and they say that's why they're fighting back. >> we are legion. we do not forgive. we do not forget. >> reporter: it's a movement that defies description. leaderless, faceless, anarchic. >> this is our space! >> reporter: a loose collective born on the internet, anonymous has no official members and no hierarchy. but within the group, some individual anoms have greater standing, earned by their skills as hackers, video makers -- >> to see it with my own eyes and record it myself. >> reporter: -- and increasingly street-level activists. troy, not his real name, is one of them. >> this is what happens when the people have had enough. this is what happens when greed goes unchecked. >> reporter: troy says he was drawn to occupy wall street after watching his mother struggle with medical debts. he, himself, is working two jobs to make ends meet, despite

thereafter are they say they write the questions or random medical facts.e don't believe that. >> there is no reason to believe the use of the recalls led to n unqualified doctor since they must pass a rigorous oral exam. >> these are doctors and they should be and is a higher standard. >> i agree and that's why the abr does not want to tolerate this behavior. >> do you think it's a big deal? >> yeah and recalls are cheating and it's inappropriate. >> that are may be so. but residency program directors like this doctor who doesn't endorse the use of recalls said it has been going on for so long it's difficult to stop. any resident who speaks out may find few friends come testing. >> if a training is not willing to actually use recall and help them to pass the exam and the particular trapping program is that every one does it that, particular person can be singled out as the social out cast. >> which brings us back to dr. matthew webb who said that's exactly what happened to him. he said he has been shun said by fellow residents. he was fired from the radiol

eating medicated foods takes too long. medicating by smoking or by vaporizing, it gives me great relief. if smoking cannabis, if you are going to smoke -- prince looking cannabis, i ask that people be allowed to vaporize. a portable vaporizing in it. i've always been respectful of other people when i have medicated in the plaza. never have i had one complaint from somebody around me when i am medicating and have not had any problems with any of the other people. please create an exemption for qualified medical cannabis patients as myself. i am asking you to allow safe access to qualified medical cannabis patients in the plaza. thank you. supervisor wiener: and link the language is specific to smoking if i am not mistaken. i want to get your take on that. >> vaporizing is a different method than smoking. it is not the same thing. supervisor wiener: thank you. before we get to the next speakers some more names to line up. alex walter, will dougherty, pete herman, and david h., dan jones, bruce smith, and [unintelligible] >>

dose of medication into the individual packets for medications. the job of dispensing medication at atascadero would be virtually impossible. as it is, each time a canister becomes empty, a technician will refill it, but a pharmacist has to inspect the technician's work, verifying the lot number, the expiration date and checking that the right medication is put into the right canister. the pharmacists are always aware that a overdose or mixing the wrong combination of medications could be deadly. >> the next step in the process is that we fill the medications in what we call a tote bag. those tote bags are locked with the numbered lock and the unit's nursing staff, licensed nursing staff will come down and sign for that tote bag. lit go back to their unit, to their medication room. it will be administered from that point. >> when we come back, keeping the peace. how do they do it here without armed guards? daddy, come in the water! somebody didn't book with travelocity, with 24/7 customer support to help move them to the pool daddy promised! look

tan under medical review with close supervision in 2006 well before the medical board ever took action. >> it would be nice if things moved more swiftly. >> reporter: last month the medical board placed dr. tan on five years' probation. he is prohibited from supervising physician assistants on the job yet he is one of the highest paid employees in california. state records show that tan made $277,000 in 2010. that's $104,000 more than what governor brown makes. >> this is absurd! this is absolutely absurd. >> reporter: crime victim advocates say they are frustrated with the medical board. she wonders why the board can suspend the medical license for michael jackson's doctor, but not dr. tan. >> they are supposed to be the watchdogs. >> reporter: so why didn't the medical board take tougher action against dr. tan? >> they felt that with some retraining and some help, he could again become a viable practicing doctor. >> reporter: so dr. tan is back at the prison where he must be closely monitored for the next three years while collecting a six-figure paycheck. >> that was sam shane repor

>> reporter: troy said he was drawn to occupy wall street after watching his mother struggle with medical debts. he himself is working two jobs to make ends meet, despite having a college degree. >> you lose track of day, lose track of time but it worth it. it's all worth it. >> reporter: we met him at the occupy wall street camp at zuccotti park. >> there's no specific person i talk to. it's move like a hive, an idea is brought up and whoever agrees with it, if the overwhelming majority of people agree with it, then we go with it. >> reporter: so we're following troy and he's been out here policing, kind of making sure that all of these protesters are getting along with the community and not causing any problems. >> we're handling internal affairs as far as damage control within the community, making sure that everybody is respecting the local small businesses around here. >> reporter: but he's not just watching over the protests. he's also watching the police. part of the evolution of anonymous from hackers to activists. anonymous was born a decade ago in one of the weirdest and darkest

. >>> medical breakthrough. surgery without a scalpel. what a woman with terrible tremors go from this to this in just ten seconds. >>> good evening. something terrifying took the south by surprise last night. no warning, 25 tornadoes striking in less than 24 hours. roaring through four states in the darkness. and this was the scene today in alabama, arkansas, mississippi and tennessee. where entire neighborhoods were wiped out as families slept. at least two are dead. 100 injured. and we know tornados peak in may or june, so no one could believe this is happening now in winter. abc's steve osunsami in alabama reports on the freakish, frightening new weather pattern. steve. >> reporter: good evening, diane. it feels like we've been here before -- and we have. the tornado that hit here last night destroyed some of the same homes that were hit the last go-around. families who lived here were lucky to get out alive. it was so terribly frightening -- in the middle of the night, the sound of sirens sent families across alabama out of their bed

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cruise ships do have doctors and nurses, 24-hour medical care. there's an exam room, x-rays, defibrillators, portable oxygen. >> and those facilities are professionally staffed, professionally run. and are quite capable of stabilizing patients in an emergency. >> reporter: but it is not a floating hospital, as passenger dan adams found out. he suffered an acute appendicitis, and had to be evacuated by two navy blackhawk helicopters to save his life. as for the woman on the carnival cruise ship, after the air drop, she was stabilized and is now back onshore, in the hospital. lisa stark, abc news, washington. >>> when we come back tonight, two astonishing numbers. if you buy a cup of coffee, you want to stay tuned. >>> and what would you save, if you carried one of these to work? we'll be back. ♪ give your customers the added feeling of security a printed statement or receipt provides... ...with mail. it's good for your business. ♪ and even better for your customers. ♪ for safe and secure ways to stay connected, visit usps.com/mail so i wasn't play

>> so he agreed that cms should not be paying for medically inappropriate uses of medication.k it is inappropriate payment issue. it's also the quality of care issue. as i did allude to in the survey and certification of quality measurement in which he touched on that we measure quality which historically have not. working to do that as early as spring comes to that the critical factor transparently sharing information with beneficiaries and their family and nursing home compare. in addition, with her party colleagues, we continue to work with pdp drug plan sponsors. we recently asked from where we could do in this area in terms of input air. so it is a multifaceted issue. we agree we should not be paying inappropriately. i think our current authorities achieve that goal. we would survey on certification and reports to me. i would reiterate the president put an asked why total budget for certification to support the budget that allows us to the important work of serving certification nursing homes, but i think we have the appropriate statutory currently and we will take a mult

we are considerate of those around us and the deferred, medicating. we never do it in front of children. there are precious few places in the city where qualified medical cannabis patients can legally medicaid. many that live in subsidized housing cannot some of them their own homes. smoke from medical cannabis cannot affect second hand smoke or affect others as the doctor has repeatedly stated. canada smokers have a non-users. moderate use of smoke cannabis, permit the use of smoke or vaporize cannabis at the plaza. supervisor wiener: can people move closer? i just want to note that the can of this issue was raised before, and i did look into it, particularly how we approach bans on smoking in public places. i was unable to find any other example where we ban smoking in public and exempted medical cannabis. i did look into it to see how we treated if. it is consistent with what this legislation says. >> i am a 20-year resident of the castro, i wanted to speak in support, so much of what goes on in our community, particularly in the plaza is very good

medical. and implementing the recommendations of the blue- ribbon panel. in accordance with the resolution, but also established a task force on the institutional master plan to discuss the progress towards the filling these eight recommendations. agreements reached and the task force -- with the task force led to a third resolution passed in march 2010. it memorialized agreements reached between dph and cpmc on those. it set specific goals for each of the eight recommendations, most of which were tied to the building of the two hospitals. however, also included were immediate five-year targets for charity care and medical. the health commission has been monitoring the progress towards meeting these targets. in 2010, cpmc exceeded its targets two years early, and they specifically agreed to increase charity care from 5.3 million in 2007 to 9.5 million in 2012, and in 2010, they provided 16.6 million in charity care. cpmc had agreed to an increase, including uncompensated care, to 65 million in 2012. in 2010, they provided 75.9 million in uncompensated care

they decide which medications will be pursued and once the medications are devised they decide what will done with it. your example is very good, erectile dysfunction. don't have enough drugs for ma layer yeah, a major global kill canner. in fact, we have drugs that we're using from the 17th century, but we have had -- don't want to exage rate. we've had 16 new drugs for erectile dysfunction for 1996, that shows where our priorities lie. even worse than that, there's a drug which was developed and found to be very efficacious, very safe, a blessing for people in africa who were threatened by african sleeping sickness. the first and best drug to have work well against it. for five years the company did indeed market it for that use before deciding it it that poor africans didn't have enough money, that there was no profit in it. >> yeah. >> now can you still buy it though, you can buy it in the west and in little tubes. it's for the removal of your hair and chin. western women can pay $50 to have clean hair-free faces but poor africans cannot afford it for sleeping sickness. >> isn't ther

had to undergo various medical procedures to keep him alive. >> that included all kinds of needle sticksblood transfusions, infections, surgery. >> mcfarland: for rikisha, the situation was especially harrowing. she had had several miscarriages before delivering a.j., and now she and the rest of her family were worried they were going to lose him too. >> a lot of people were scared. even my husband was very afraid. he'd been with me through all of these losses, and he had somehow maintained his composure when i was losing my mind after all of these miscarriages. >> the most challenging thing i think has been the loss of the babies. i just couldn't understand why this would happen. >> mcfarland: after four months in the nicu, a.j. was ready to go home. but his recovery was far from over. >> he developed slower than full-term children. he had extensive physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy just to make sure that he had every opportunity to catch up. and now he's six, and it's-- i'm now seeing his personality. i'm now seeing him. he likes to sing. he likes to dance. you kno

the state medical commission said dr.ted that he prescribed controlled substances to a patient with whom he was having sex; prescribed controlled substances to a patient who he knew was a drug addict; and had sexual experiences with young female children. we also tracked down his laboratory in ecuador, not exactly the state-of-the-art facility claimed in his web site. the hotel room gary susser and dan ecklund headed for was set up with a number of cameras that were tucked out of sight. susser excused himself. ecklund was expecting to meet judy and adam-- the blind and paralyzed 11-year-old in whom he intended to transplant stem cells-- cells from his lab that sold us the dangerous biomedical junk. instead, we came in. dr. ecklund, i'm scott pelley with "60 minutes." >> ecklund: oh, great. >> pelley: how are you today? >> ecklund: i am, uh, surprised. >> pelley: we've been working with the sussers on a story, and i want you to know that we're being recorded. and i wanted to ask you about the treatment that you propose for

our report from our chief medical editor dr.ancy snyderman. >> reporter: doctors who measure blood pressure in only one arm may be missing critical information about their patient's heart health. a new study published in the journal "the lancet" shows the differences in blood pressure readings between both arms could point to underlying health risks. if the systolic pressure, the top number in a reading which measures the pressure in the artery where the heart beats, differs by 15 points in each arm, this study shows that a person is at 2.5 times higher risk of peripheral vascular disease, meaning blood vessels in the hands and feet are more likely to become blocked and could lead to severe measures like amputation. risk of stroke is 1.6 times higher. risk from death of heart attack is 70% higher. some risk factors for hypertension are age, genetics, age and obesity. your doctor should take blood pressure in each arm. if it's high in one arm, have that blood pressure repeated because some people develop something we call white c

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you were all emergency medical technicians. this is the first time we have had a class that we made that a requirement. it is great to have real estate appraisers, people who have worked in construction, personal trainers, people will have worked retail, 911 dispatchers. that is all important. each of you bring something to the team. i am also proud that collectively, there are many languages that you speak in addition to english. we have speakers fluent in spanish, cantonese, italian, french, russian, and vietnamese. all of that is value added for an employee of the san francisco fire department to serve our diverse city. many of you have advanced or bachelor's degrees. with history majors, sociology, i.t., psychology, civil engineering. all that is impressive and important as you build a team and contribute to the san francisco fire department. to the family and friends of our recruits, thank you very much. it has been a sacrifice for the recruits and family members. it has not been an easy 14 weeks. you will find that there

warns prescription painkillers may have been mixed in with over-the-counter medications. the town that's buried under 18 feet of snow and the independents who could decide this republican this republican primary when the "cbs evening news" continues. >> pelley: it's the kind of mistake that just can't be allowed to happen. at a novartis plant in nebraska, powerful prescription drugs may have been mixed in with over-the-counter medications. now there's a now there's a huge recall. dr. jon lapook is in our broadcast center in new york and jon, walk us through this mixup. >> reporter: scott, the four over-the-counter medications recalled are bufferin, excedrin, gas-x prevention and no-doze with the expiration dates you see on the screen. the products involve include percocet and morphine, but while there's some risk of a mixup, scott, the f.d.a. says the risk is very low and patients shouldn't be alarmed. if you are taking gas-x because of balely ache, it turns out you're taking a narcotic. the narcotic cannot only make the belly-ache worse but if there's something more seri

i need medication.may need medication. >> frank also receives counseling to deal with his horrific crime. >> you know, i'm not as bad as i used to be. you know, i probably remember things. i have a track of mind. i'm not acting crazy or nothing. i'm not going crazy acting anymore, you know. so i just -- we all do the best we can. i have gone through umpteen gazillion psychiatrists now. i can talk about it now. years ago i couldn't. ♪ >> some inmates have a hard time finding mental balance. timothy anderson has been in and out of most institutions in the state. in the rtu, he has found some semblance of stability. >> how are you doing, boys? >> everybody's mentally ill here and they're all on medication. that helps me to sort of fit in. they think i'm silly, but they're silly too. everybody's silly. this is a place where you can get away with just about anything. sometimes a person gets in my face because i'm a little tall and i'm a little big, and i wish i was really big and strong for sure, you know. t

there were medical issues that were starting to develop.eeded this to take myself to the next level. >> reporter: proof that next checkup could be well worth it in more ways than one. >>> take a look at this spectacular light show, mesmerizing a lot of folks around the world. every night this week, wow. those are the northern lights as seen in this case in norway. the show is all thanks to the biggest burst of solar flare activity in years, which makes the northern flights particularly vibrant. >>> when we come back, flight delay, something to think about the next time you're sitting on the runway. heartbeat,ave an irregur and that it put me at 5-times greater risk of a stroke. i was worried. i worried about my wife, and my family. bill has the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. he was taking warfarin, but i've put him on pradaxa instead. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mgs reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin without the need for regular blood tests. i sure was glad to hear th

someone may self-medicate if they are depressed or self-medicate if they are anxious. substance use disorders are, in fact, disorders. they aren't just bad behavior or weak will. it is a mental health issue, so no matter what the drug of choice is, it is still a problem and we have to get people to recognize that it's still a mental health problem that can be addressed and can be treated. here's the statement-self harm is a failed suicide attempt. you see lots of fiction, lots of fiction, why is that? why do you think that is the case, nicole? if we can get on that front edge, i believe that we can reduce the total cost in health care. john, has, does aca shift this focus into prevention and wellness and what is that going to mean? the prevention and wellness is prominently highlighted throughout the affordable care act. i think the secretary talks about shifting it, shifting the conversation around sicker people to healthier people. there are a number of provisions that i think are worth talking about. obviously the establishment of the national prevention council, wh

if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help.ooking instructor is back with another great recipe. >>happy chinese new year ... >>thank you you are here to show us pan fried buns.. we are making the dough ... you can also fill this with either chicken or pork ... this is a very simple recipe. the trick is how much water you combine with the ingredients in this recipe. the mixture will have the meat green onions sugar soy sauce and salt and pepper along with some sesame oil which has a very strong flavor. combine these ingredients are very well. we are going to fill the dough but we have doto get the dumpling shape ready.. once we have filled these we will put them in a pan with a little bit of water ... i have a website where i have my cooking classises.. these are very simple concepts that i teach for chinese cooking. you want the water to evaporate so you will only cook these for about five minutes ... once they are cooked we will garnish that with some green onion. >>thank you so much to find out more go to our web site wgn tv

the final provision related relates to the medical office building. the proposed to develop an agreement requires cpmc to have this office building as a part of the process and would require that the building be there. the intention is to assure that the project is sustainable. the medical building will be built. the nursing facility beds in san francisco. laguna honda is an example that you're likely familiar with. this will provide medical care and rehabilitation services in a residential setting and is the highest level of care that elderly and disabled patients can receive outside the hospital. skilled nursing care services are referred to as beds. cpmc provide this for over 30 patients. currently, approximately 62 patients are receiving skilled nursing care at st. luke's. the st. luke's is licensed for 79 skilled nursing beds, the average occupancy rate for 2010 -- excuse me, for 2010, the last year for which there is publicly available data, it is 62 beds and thus the 100 total. cpmc is not proposing to include more in a hospital but will instea

louis for a minimum of 20 years, increasing the cpmc share of metical -- medical. and implementing the recommendations of the blue- ribbon panel. in accordance with the resolution, but also established a task force on the institutional master plan to discuss the progress towards the filling these eight recommendations. agreements reached and the task force -- with the task force led to a third resolution passed