it ships surplus medical supplies and medicine overseas. supplies that would have ended up in our landfills. the co-founder of vida was born in peru and lives in the bay area. the charity is based in emeryville and is marking 25 years of service. vida usa invited me to travel with them to see where those supplies are going -- to hospitals and programs helping families with disabled children. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> carmen cortez founded peru niñez in lima to help families with disabled children or mothers who need surgery and don't have anybody to care for their children. it's sort of like a ronald mcdonald house, designed to keep families together during a medical crisis. peru niñez is the only place of its kind in all of lima, which has a population of nearly 10 million. peru niñez can only serve about 22 people right now. it's expanding because the need is so great. it helps support itself by selling food on the streets. carmen's commitment and passion for serving these families inspired a bay area charity called vida usa to help her.

i have been taking medications from hydrocortisone t. ittarted smoking pot, using as a vapor, i have cut down to four pills for high blood pressure, feeling great. nothing is tearing up my stomach. it needs to be used versus all of these opioids. it can be done recreational -- he will not have these problems with kids trying to buy and get on heroin. host: i want to let him respond. guest: i have heard thousands of stores over the past couple of years like yours. i can in skeptical when we started this. if this had a negative impact on the get out of this industry and business. i have heard countless stories like this. these are not all potheads on marijuana. these are people with illness, regular people, and your story resonates with a lot of people. wyles, managing editor of marijuana business daily. thank you so much for joining us. guest: thank you. host: tomorrow on "washington journal," we will be joined by charlie cole to talk about the dings for thece rea 2018 midterms.

it stretches from the medical mall in jackson to new clinics, medical specialty centers and even medical device manufacturers located just across the river in rankin county. with the leadership of the first lady, ummc and the department of human services, we will soon begin construction on a long-term palliative care unit in jackson's medical zone. the center will offer a home-like treatment facility for the medically fragile children who are now living at batson. this will be a life-altering experience for those patients and their families. if there is ever a mission of mercy we can achieve, it is this palliative care medical home for the children of blair e. -- blair e. batson. [applause] we have an additional opportunity in jackson's medical zone. i believe real potential exists to move the department of public safety headquarters. we have a good location in rankin county near the state crime lab. the current building, located in the heart of the medical corridor, was constructed in the 1970s and is in deplorable condition. a new medical conference center could be constructed in its p

and it's related to what i to as a medical historian. so it wasso halloween, 1828, ana woman in scotland was murdered. and it turns out that she was the last victim of 16 who were killed by william burke and william h rex r. now, they were body snatchers in 19th century. i use that term loosely because, actually with, they just killed people, and they sold those bodies on to the surgeons and anatomieses of this time. there was a great need for bodies because this was a time when people willingly gave over bodies to medical science. herr turned king's evidence and he went free while his friend swung for the crime. there was a weird law in britain, it was called the murder act. any murder not only be execute for his crimes but also publicly dissected. so inwi an ironic twist, burke ends up on the table that he had sold his victims onto. now, this is scotland in the 18th century, and it doesn't end there. it wasn't enough just to execute or publicldissect him. in fact, they took his skin and krised these various flynn -- or created these va

access to medication. why are they physically and mentally doing better? these people when they migrate to the united states they are actually going to get worse. they start to have depression or cognitive impairment. i practice in the state of california. why doesn't this change? and you mentioned mentality. this culture is going from the beginning. we teach our children that there's something wrong with aging and aging is a german we have to avoid that. when i go shopping when i see antiaging supplements it makes me very nervous. i tell myau son at four years od your dad is aging and there's nothing wrong with him. i see a lot of public education about fighting aging. fighting aging is like fighting nature. we need to adapt to aging. to process starting at the beginning of life. if we change the dialogue in the community and in society about aging then we can accept aging. that's why i have a ph.d. patient that asked me for depression treatment. he said every time i apply for a job i have to dye my hair

have hard medication medicine, which is expensive -- heart medication medicine, which is expensive, and lifelong penalties on top of it and it becomes frustrating. the best we can do, when we have someone like that come to us, is to try to backtrack to see if we the so security, medicare -- social security, medicare, the person's hr department, where was there a breakdown in the information so that sometimes we can go back and see if we can get maybe a lower penalty. or, on rare occasions, no penalty. but it is a long process. and the diff -- and a difficult one people find themselves in, and it is very sad. sen. casey: thank you very much for that, that is the real life of it. sen. collins: thank you. you, ande, all of thank you for being here. i noticed you were taking notes. that was my first question. important to is get her feedback because she is on the front lines interacting with seniors and talking with them. to me, the first step is the awareness and education. but we are providing is enough information to make an intelligent decision, then we are missing out on providing

i think this makes a pretty good case -- since it's medical related, a pretty good case for the medical response vehicles. you've got the airport, pursuant to what you just said, talking about putting people on bikes. i think that would be the equivalent of quick response vehicles in san francisco to be able to get to people quicker and not necessarily have engines responding to purely medical calls when they're not required to. so that's just a comment i've noticed from this. my second question and final question is what -- if you could brief me quickly on what the process is, are we voting on this item today? >> no. this is just initial discussion. there's a lot of work to be done over the next few weeks, and then potentially on the first meeting in february , there would be a budget for your approval. if there's still following issues, we put a hold for the following week on those issues for a following submission if needed. but this is just for initial discussion. >> i would only say i hope the department doesn't come to us with a budget request that doesn't give us any time or inpu

on the other hand they can't be successful if the medical treatment if they don't get medical services. treatment if they don't get medical services. >> i will call that for young people to consider the field much psychiatry, psychology, social work and related. >> i really hope that we can bring more young people in because i think they are the key. >> one last question. we heard pete talk about the difficulty he had and d.j. javie mentioned the difficulty in tracking the needs, penetrating the veil of appointments of privacy laws, not being able to shepherd your son or daughter or family member through the system because you are not supposed to be involved. does that privacy veil need to be changed, amended, adjusted? >> this is something that the president spoke about before he was elected. this has been an issue for his administration since the time he became president. i only started here a couple of months ago bun of the first -- one of the first things i was involved in is is the whole expiration of current privacy laws both hipaa, health insurance -- >> could you repeat that? >

the second area is her medical enterprise and i'm grateful dr. rick wright a hime, when he waved to the crowd who is the director of war to the established as part of papa and part of aspr to bridge the late stage development of vaccines drugs and diagnostic development and many products available or by using flexible authorities multiyear dance funding and strong public private partnerships and cutting-edge expertise barta has pushed many products to advance development stock piling fda approval. to this day 34 -- a been approved by fda for the surfaces of her sobbing to disasters to the credit of.your brighton and his predecessor in the team. we have an opportunity to improve this enterprise by streamlining our decision-making processes finding new ways to support innovation promoting flexible fast response capabilities increasing collaboration with interagency partners. we also must work closely with their state and local partners as well as the private sector to enhance the capabilities quickly to distribute and dispense medical counter march

charles, the medical director at the bureau of medical services for the department of state. thank you all again for being here on this important topic. there are two goals. the first is to establish the facts. and of what has occurred and the second is to conduct oversight over the conduct and the activities of the united states state department. here are the facts as will be testified to today by our panel. in late 2016 staff at the united states embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among it descriptions they complained of, high pitched beam of sound, incapacitating sound, akin to driving with windows partially open in the car or just intense pressure in one ear. at the time of this report the post's leadership and the supporting office here in washington d.c. viewed this activity as harassment from forces hostile to the united states or to u.s. presence in cuba. later there was information gathered from aditional individuals, including some that suggested the complaints to november. the initial events that were reported occurred at diplomatic residents

it's not legal in virginia except medical. but i do believe you can control the sale to minors and you get the tax dollars. and now i believe we're hurting the drug cartels of colorado and the other states that have legalized it because they're no longer getting that money. if you really want to hurt the drug cartels, legalize the marijuana and start from there. and i believe that -- i've smoked it on and off through my life and i'm doing fine. host: ok. judy's on the line from washington, d.c., where it has been legalized in some form. you support both. judy, you think the washington, the law in washington, d.c. is going well? caller: i do. but i think that they should have congress intervene and made it impossible for them to sell marijuana legally. you can smoke it but you can't buy it and you can't sell it. so there are ways of getting around that. but the loss of residence of d.c. is tremendous and it's ridiculous and they should be able to have legalized pot, like they do in colorado and now in california and washington

but, yes, to answer your question, there is medical staff. whether it be onset or in the writers' room they're trying to make sure that we're as authentic as we can be. >> matt, the clip we played of you and the older doctor, that character seems like a real tool. is that the conflict that you are going to have for much of the season? >> bruce green plays that dr. bell character. he is an amazing actor, great guy. yeah to give a little picture of that. the beginning and i think this sets the tone to show what you separates us a little bit. the first scene in the pilot which you will see on the 21st is a scene where dr. bell is in there and he is performing a normal surgery. an appendectomy. the nicks the patient and the patient dies and they proceed to cover it up and say he had heart failure. and this happens in hospitals across the country and actually medical error is the third leading cause of death in the united states. and my character, dr. conrad hawkins stands up to the system and gives a voice to the little guy, in defense of his pat

[applause] working together we have built a new world-class medical school at the mississippi medical center to train those so desperately needed in the state of medical professionals hbecause of your help we are on our way to achieve our goal to have 1000 new positions economic drivers are a reality physicians today are responsible for more than 51000 jobs with a total economic output of $8 billion annually. in our children's hospital has announced 180 million-dollar expansion the medical core door b to establish coming from the medical mall specialty centerst and device manufacturers located across the river. the leadership of the first lady medical center and department of human c services we will begin construction on a long-term uni unit. [applause] this center will offer a homelike treatment for those medically fragile children now living there. a life altering experience for those patients and their families if there is ever a mission of mercy we can achieve it is this home for the childre children. [applause] we have an additional opportunity i believe real potential exists fo

we have authorities to medically evacuate personnel and to be we seek reimbursement from the medical insurer and we have authority to do it for up to a year overseas and potentially longer. mainly for employees but also have the ability to do that for a period of time for family members as well. there are no out-of-pocket expenses in cured by family members or employees. >> fbi director concluded this wasn't a sonic attack and basically ruled that out. as you know, the fbi took a number of trips to cuba, they interviewed down there. they were very very thorough with what they did. them coming out with this report, which you can't comment on, would you tell us what your theories are of what happened? they've ruled that out. what are your theories of what you think happened? >> when this thing has been looked at from an investigative standpoint, i don't think solely the acoustic element has been looked at. going back to late february we had that medical element associated with this it was shared, what possibly could be happening in havana and the acoustic element, there were other poss

medical respite has served the sickest and most medically complex people in homelessness.als and now we can accept them from shelters for people who are too sick to stay there and are at risk. i want to put a face for the clients we served. we recently cared for a gentleman with a new cancer diagnosis and he needed a place to rest and recoup rate. without a bed -- (laughter) without a bed at respite, cancer treatment may not have been an option for this gentleman. and we have been working with a woman working intensely with physical therapy, she can walk and take care of herself now again and ready to go back to the shelters. and we're seeing an increasing aging population among the homeless, people who are cognitively impaired and unable to keep themselves safe. they receive behavioral health, primary care, assistance with medications and referrals to psycho social services such as housing. personally i want to thank the staff of medical respite and sobering who provide the care day in and day out and shelter house street medicine, these are the care teams that provide co

i found in a lot of the medical records and medical journals of the 19th century, physicians and plantersting back and forth talking about when the girls had their first menstrual cycle and they would write back and forth and say on our plantation they were age 17 or 18 or 14. trying to figure out when they can have their cycle and give birth. someone in, their values were decreased because they were "barren" or participated in self abortions or miscarriages they did on their own as a form of resistance. you find this attention paid to a young girl as she ages, mothers being sick in their hearts about not wanting them to know, sometimes they would tie down their breasts and hide that they have their menstrual cycle, because they would know they would be expected to give birth, particularly after the closing of the transatlantic slave trade . there is not a source of enslaved people coming in. forced reproduction, breeding, being raped was common among slave women. that's kind of what i was talking about with their values. >> we are coming to an end, we want to thank you all for being with

it stretches from the medical mall to new clinics, medical specialty centers and medical device manufacturers across the river. ladyeadership of the first , university medical center and department of human services, we will soon begin to -- construction on a pallet of care palliative care unit. [applause] gov. bryant: this center will offer a homelike treatment for the medically fragile children, -- are now living in this will be a life altering experience for those patients and their families. ofthere is ever a mission mercy we can achieve, it is this medical home for the children. [applause] gov. bryant: we have an additional opportunity in jackson's medical zone. i believe real potential exists in the department of public safety headquarters or unit we have a good location in lincoln -- in near the crime lamb rankin county near the crime lab. a new medical conference center could be constructed. this facility would become the gateway of the medical corridor. rising out of the piney woods of harrison county, complete with a new pharmacy school and nursing and simulation center and national

this is not about medical viability, mister president. roe v wade says there is a state interest to protect the unborn, i would argue the difference between medical viability in 1973 and 2018 is enormous. what we are trying to do is provide a new theory to protect the unemployed. it is something like this. can a legislative body prohibit an abortion on demand at a time science tells us the baby feels excruciating pain? at a time science tells us parents should sing to their child, at a time science tells us that this baby has well-connected tissue and can feel pain and on occasion survive. my answer is yes. it is okay for the congress and state legislators to pass laws saying in the fifth month we are going to disallow abortion on demand, there will be exceptions but they will be rare. 10,000 cases every year affected by this law potentially so what are we trying to do? we are trying to proceed forward to a better day in america, trying to get out of the club where there are only six other members, trying to reconcile the law with science

we seek reimbursement for the medical insure, the primary medical insure first. we are committed to providing what we call secondary payer benefits to personnel who are affected overseas. we have authority to get for up to your. again, primarily for employees but we also benefit to do that foro a time for family members s well. >> okay. >> so there no out-of-pocket expenses incurredut d by any employees or family members right now. >> senator shaheen read the recent ap story with the fbi concluded that this wasn't a sonic attack, basically ruled that out. as you know the fbi took a number of trips to cuba. they interviewed down there. they were very, very thorough in terms of what they did, and so then coming out with this report, which you can't comment on, would you tell us what your theories are of what happened. they have ruled that out. what are your theories of what you think happen? >> well, there's been, you know, when this thing has been looked at from an investigative standpoint, i don't think solely the acoustic element has been looked at. from the ver

it was not medical. there is no medical evidence that was ever brought. i told you i apologize to the olympian athletes. i have five children and two dogs. my parents live with me, i work four jobs. i don't have much time for television. i don't watch sport. although last year i was a soccer coach, much to laughter of my family. i didn't know anything about you and your name or anything that was going on. so, when i kept saying we're going to trial, here's the date. everyone wanted more time. i said no, here's the date and we delayed it. i still thought while maybe there's a defense of medical treatment. why didn't i think that? because my job to be fair and impartial. but also because my two brothers and my father are very well known and respected doctors. real doctors. dedicated to healing. i finally considered that in this case. but i have heard from your survivors now that they trust doctors like the trust the doctors in my family and the doctors i go to. i still thought, there was defense of medical treatment. there are changes in the medical communi

it was not medical. there is no medical evidence that was ever brought. when ts case first came to m and i've told you this and i've apologized to the olympians and athletes, but i have five children, two dogs, my parents live with me, i work four jobs. i don't have much time for television. i don't watch sports. although, last year i was a soccer coach, much to the laughter of my family. i didn't know anything about you or your name or anything that was going on. and so when i kept saying we're going to trial, here's the date and everyone wanted more time, i said, no, here's the cutoff. then the cases were merged and we delayed it. and i still thought, well, maybe there's a defense of medical treatment. why did i think that? because it's my job to be fair and impartial. but also because my two brothers and my father are very well-known and respected doctors. real doctors with real treatments and research. dedicated to healing. i haven't considered that in this case, but i have heard from your survivors now that they trust doctors like i trust the doctors

>> does he taken any medications you have a disclose? >> doesn't take any medications at all. what is the exam involved? does a conclusively rule out a psychological exam? >> it does. you can look online and see what it all about. it does rule out the need to do any other cognitive testing. if you do well on it, anything about the 26 is normally and if you get a 30 out of 30 i think you can confidently assume that you are done for now. >> twitter doesn't involve me as a doctor. the president is the first lifelong to total or to sit in the oval office. can you say that has extended his life in any way and makes him unusually healthy? >> in my opinion, it's had a big impact, especially the smoking. he has incredible cardiac fitness at this point in his life and a large part of that is due to the fact he's had a life of abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. you mentioned a bunch of doctors and there are other questions. is there anyone such as a psychiatrist or psychologist whose job it is to monitor the presidents emotional state or watch potential psychiatric problems or indicat

also fascinating the price tag the pharma industry generally puts on life saving medication for most patients especially in the developing world their way out of reach no question about that the interesting part is how companies justify raking in all those juicy profits. for years this man suffered from hepatitis c. a viral disease that was destroying his liver. he was forced to spend most of his time in bed. he doesn't want to be identified by name. i get up with my wife at six am have a cup of coffee down again later i go out with the dog for a short walk and was so exhausted that i had to go back to bed. he doesn't know how he contract to this contagious disease. but his doctor provided him with a cure. in twenty fourteen a drug came onto the market which for the first time was able to eliminate hepatitis c. from the body. it blocks the ability of the virus to reproduce and usually after a few weeks there is no trace of it in the patient's blood. dr stephanie says a two month course of treatment costs forty thousand euros a price tag he finds unconscionable production costs he say

the american medical association opposesl. this bill. the ama says and i quote, we strongly condemn any interference by the government or other third parties that causes a position to compromise his or her medical judgment as to what information or treatment is in the best interest of the patient. i urge my colleagues to respect the women of this country and their right to make their own health care decisions without the unwelcome involvement of politicians and law enforcement agencies. let's reject this partisan, extreme and frankly unnecessary legislation today and then let's focus our bipartisan attention on the business of passing the budget from funding the military, combating the opioid crisis and the other needs that the country faces. thank you very much madam president, i will yield the floor. >> thank you madam president. today is a proud but also painful one for me. proud because i am honored and proud to join my extinguishe did colleagues on the floor. i was proud to join connecticut organizations and advocates this morning i

debate around possible human cloning is once again on the agenda well it is considered a major bio medical breakthrough and raising also many many questions we're going to try to tackle a scientific angle with their aquariums our science editor and martin gak to get his correspondence for religious affairs and ethics will help navigate some of the ethical issues that have come up as well i want to start off with you if i may dare to give us the state of play before we start talking about the specific case about the the world of cloning because since dolly the sheep we had cloned monkeys cloned dogs dogs excuse me and many different mammals why. well there are there are about twenty different species that we clone now want to regular basis and many of them have there's a variety of different reasons we clone mice for example for research study purposes we clone cowls because they can then we can get cows that deliver more milk and we can be certain that they'll deliver more milk so there are a wide range of reasons why we clone animals this is definitely this is definitely moving in the dir

is that still your professional medical opinion? also, can you tell us how long the examination was start to finish and how many people were involved? mr. jackson: i guess it's going to depend. this time next year we'll do a lot of the same tests and we'll do a cardiac assessment and everything else. when we get the object dave at that next year, we'll look at it and recalibrate. if he's made a lot of changes i assume he'll be in even better shape than he is right now. if he's eating better. and he's lost a few pounds. even if he hasn't, i won't make that assessment without doing a lot of the objective testing that we just did this time. then the other question was -- reporter: how long was the entire -- mr. jackson: the exam lasted about four-plus hours. so i think we were there -- well, about four hours, i think. and i had a total of, i believe, 12 consultants involved in it. i don't execute these physicals in a vacuum. i have a lot of specialists available to me. just like on a day to day basis, i'm somewhat of a quarterback with

a test print was that the many medical -- mini medical?> dr.kson: it was the montreal test, sometimes called the "moca," and you can find it online. what does the plan look like? also, did you see any evidence of bone spurs? has not beenthat bothering him recently, so we did not examine him for bone spurs right now. he has not come to me complaining of that, so there was no reason with this particular assessment. we were pretty crunched for time, so we did not look at that issue. i did not assess that, no. as far as life expectancy, he probably will not live to be 200. i would have to say it is the same of any other american right now, but it is certainly no less. the guided exercise plan, what is in store? dr. jackson: we are working on that. i am getting a nutrition expert and willith the chefs go over the preparation of the president's food just to make sure that we are cutting the calories and the facts and the carbohydrates as much as we can and still make good meals for him. with regards to the exercise, that is something that myself and

the second areas are medical counter enterprise. i'm grateful that dr. rick bright behind me, why don't you wave to the crowd, who is director, has joined me today. it was established as part of the act and is a component to bridge the so-called valley of death in the late stage development of vaccine, drug and diagnostic development, when many products historically languished or failed. by using flexibility, nimble authorities, multi-year advanced funding, strong public/private partnerships and cutting edge expertise, we have successfully pushed many innovative products to advanced development to stockpiling fda approval. to this date, 34 products have been approved by fda for the purposes of responding to disasters to the credit of dr. bright and his predecessor, dr. robinson and the team. we have opportunities to further improve this enterprise by streamlining our internal decision-making processes, finding new ways to support innovation, promoting flexible, fast response capabilities, increasing our collaboration with federal interagency partners. we

medically it's extremely painful and emotional. under this bill, a woman's health is put at risk and her doctor could be threatened with criminal prosecution. if a woman's miscarriage hasn't completed, her health could rapidly deteriorate from fever and infection. if this bill passes and a woman goes to a hospital, no doctor could help her, because under this legislation there is no exception to protecting women's health. none. only a doctor can be certain that a woman is close to death and they could legally intervene. and that, i think, is unconscionable. i've heard from women in california who were thrilled to be pregnant only to receive the devastating news that their babies had fatal anomalies and would not survive. let me give you an example. one person from northern california -- and let me quote her. our baby's heart was severely deformed. he was missing parts of his brain and his lungs likely would not have supported him breathing on his own ever. we found all of this out at 19 1/2 weeks. if we were a few days late under t

he was a medical professional.re very worried that somehow this would get twisted into a debate over medical procedures and medical terminology, and that the real root of the story, the sexual abuse of these young women, would get lost in some arcane debate about medical procedures. that was a high bar, and we really worked hard to get to that point. we felt so confident though in the stories of the young women who had come to us. rachael denhollander had her medical records. she had all kinds of documents so, you know, again we came off feeling very good about her. also i had spoken to medical professionals, and there were many things about dr. nassar's performance of the procedure that were far, far outside of a standard procedure. he didn't wear gloves. he didn't use lubricant. he didn't tell the young ladies in advance he would be penetratinghem. often he didn't have an adult in the room when he had minor in there. all of these things are outside of a general practice. going into the interview with him i had a

third, we need to move ahead on the medical countermeasure development. there's been good progress but many priority is remain including sustained funding and research development manufacturing and acquisition of countermeasures, transitioning to the new flu vaccine technologies and setting morgan bush's targets for the products and emergencies so that they are ready in the course of a given pandemic were epidemic. fourth, the u.s. needs to recognize threats that could emerge from biological research. after the u.s. moratorium of the pandemic pathogen research was lifted last month, researchers can now again applie apply for g to study for example ways of making the world's most lethal viruses respiratory transmissible like the seasonal flu. this could lead to the novel strain of the virus that could cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. i don't believe the benefits are worth the risk but if it's going to go ahead i would advise to be transparency in the program and serious dialogue among the concerned government internationally on how to proceed. finally

it was not medical. there is no medical evidence that was ever brought. to do this and i apologise to the olympians and athletes, but i have five children and two dogs. my parents lived with me and i work fourjobs. i don't have much time for television. i don't watch sports. although last year i was a soccei’ sports. although last year i was a soccer coach, much to the laughter of my family. i didn't know anything about you, your name or anything that was going on. and so when i ke pt that was going on. and so when i kept saying, we are going to trial, here is the date, and everyone wanted more time, i said no. and then the cases were merged and we delayed it and i still thought, maybe there is a defensive medical treatment. why did i think that? because it's myjob to be fair and impartial, but also because my two brothers and my father are very well known and respected doctors, real doctors with real treatments and research, dedicated to healing. in this case, i have heard from your survivors that they trust doctors like i trust the doctors in my family

and medical ins institutes in our state. the maine medical center research institute is conducting cutting edge work that researchers in maine have underway to develop medical treatments for chronic diseases, and in september, one of the researchers with whom i met, doctor lee oxberg and his team at maine medical center, received an award through regenerative innovative project, using adult stem cells. dr. oxberg is working to develop novel therapies for chronic kidney disease, which is very exciting. regenerative medicine also holds great potential for understanding aging and reversing diseases like macular degeneration. i understand that the chairman has already introduced doug oliver, but, he, too, is from the state of maine and grew up only 11 miles from where i did, and he shared his compelling story about losing and regaining his sight through regenerative therapy. mdi biological laboratory in maine is leading the development of such therapies that hold significant potential for slowing the changes that occur with agin

and the medical director of the bur reof medical services. for the department of state. thank you all again for being here. there are two goals to the hearing today. the first, is to accompliestabl facts of what occurred. the second is conduct over sight over the conduct and the activities of the united states state department. here are the facts as will be testified to today. by our panel. late 2016, staff at the united states embassy in havana began complaining of strange noises and among the scription they complained of high pitch beam of sound. baffling sensation. a kin to driving with windows open in the car. or intense pressure in one ear. at the time of the report, the post leadership and the supporting office here in washington dc viewed this activity as harassment from forces hostile to the united states. or to u.s. presence in cuba. later, those information gathered from additional individuals including some of these which suggest the events that led to these complaints actually began as early as november. of 2016. the initial events that were reported o dured