eight labrador retrievers working with the university of pennsylvania's school of veterinary medicine. researchershow that dogs can sniff out covid-19. >> good girl! >> this is not a pie in the sky idea. zrogs sniffed out diseases before. >> absolutely. >> reporter: dr. jaint otto is the director of pen vets working dog center. >> they've done it with ovarian cancer. they do it with a lot of other diseases. we're pretty confident that they can do it. >> reporter: dogs have sniff out blood sugar levels before they become dangerous. their own special signature and dogs can can recognize a virus in culture. >> reporter: if the dogs can successfully detect the coronavirus, the first dogs could be at hospitals, airports and train stations within about six months. what is so special about dogs' noses that they can do this? >> dogs' noses are so amazing. dogs smell in color, i say. we think about how we see the world through our eyes, dogs see the world through their noses. >> reporter: at the helsinki airport where the dogs are already deployed, they don't come up to you. travellers who volunteer for a

hip otitis see harvey alter michael horton and charles weiss are sharing the nobel prize for medicine research dating back to the 1960 s. successfully identify the virus limited its proud and let effective treatments but as with the new coronavirus there's no vaccine hepatitis c. causes potentially fatal liver disease is transmitted through bodily fluids including blood the sore alter says while medical advances have improved our weapons against viruses political will is what's needed to defeat them the issues now are really not science anymore the science in hepatitis c. has gotten to the point where we don't really need better drugs than we already have we don't need better tests and we already have what we need is the the. political will to eradicate it his fellow laureate professor vice believes it's a likely hepatitis c. will be eradicated by the show's targets in 10 years he says that's partly because many countries have banned research on chimpanzees which is more effective than studies on rodents. one of the challenges with actually it is really sort of having a predictive model in whi

medicines. now researchers will investigate what caused the adverse reaction and determine if and when it's safe to resume the trials lester >> yeah. some really important perspective there. john, thanks >>> tough questions today for supreme court nominee judge amy coney barrett on day two of her senate confirmation hearings. democrats trying to pin down how she'd rule on major issues like abortion and obamacare. peter alexander now with late details. >> reporter: supreme court nominee judge amy coney barrett tonight facing senators' questions for the first time pressed whether she would overrule landmark decisions >> judges can't just wake up one day and say i have an agenda, i like guns, i hate guns, i like abortion, i hate abortion, and walk in like a royal queen and impose, you know, their will on the world. >> reporter: barrett repeatedly challenged by democrats on roe v. wade >> it's distressing not to get a straight answer >> reporter: having signed a 2006 newspaper ad calling for the barbaric legacy of roe to be ended. >> do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decid

so a summit has had a strong connection to academic medicine, environmental research r, what do you see is the role of universities? and in the policy making process, how is this role evolved overpa time? and what would you like too see the university do? what role would you like too see them play as a current pandemic continues? >> you know the universities, including, very much your own, is really the home of such extraordinary academic talent of people who come in with an inquisitiveness too learn, to get down to the facts that it is, to me, and indispensable part of any efforts in science or in global health. the government itself, the nih for example of which i am a member of one of the institutes, has been historically a great supporter of what goes on at universities and schools for public health. i think you need to synergize and partner with each other. i don't think the federal government can do this by themselves. i don't think the academic community would have the support to be able to do it by themselves. and then we want to bring in a nether component which is as important

care but it has terrible health access you know america has great hospitals and doctors and research and medicines and if everybody got the kind of care that donald trump was able to get sure coronavirus might not be such a big deal but if everybody in america was even theoretically able to have that kind of health care access it would also crush the health care system because not everyone can have that kind of interval individualized attention and all the medicines he got some of which for experimental so it's really a far cry to look at the kind of care the president got the kind of care that average americans get right when as we see in the senate right now with the judiciary committee hearings the main issue with especially the democrats are bringing up is health access and health care which is coming up to the supreme court that could be struck down as unconstitutional. trump is in florida has been in florida he's putting a lot of emphasis on that state he seems to feel he needs to win it how important is florida in this election i think anyone who follows presidential elections knows that fl

president elect of the european society of intensive care medicine and head of intensive care medicine at humanities research hospital in boston matthew fox infectious disease it biddy we are just and professor of geology at boston university school of public health and in robert as a dealer brahimi director of the medical biotechnology laboratory med biotech and director of the bio on of our research center a warm welcome to you or mauricio german chancellor angela merkel said that this winter will be hard for long difficult months are you bracing for a surge in the cases of the people that will be a better to the intensive care units in the coming weeks. and yes i think we are and actually we've been bracing for a while because many of the 1st wave there was a curing the fairest months of the day year before dishonor and imagery to work on trees in europe experience there and accumulate quite somber work around virus cases we were actually never able to or every single transmission of cases in the community so indeed the beige and they arrived leaving the summary for not even if not we've the numbers are g

as someone who has had a strong connection to academic medicine and medical research, what you -- what did you see as the role of universities on the policymaking process, and how has this role evolved over time, and what do the universities to do, what role would you like them to play in the current pandemic? dr. fauci: the universities, including very much your own, is really the home of such extraordinary academic talent of people who come in with an inquisitiveness to learn, to get down to the facts, that is, to me, an indispensable of any effort of science or global health. the government itself, the nih, for example, of which i am a member of one of the institutes, has been historically a great supporter of what goes on at universities and schools of public health. i think you need to synergize and partner with each other. i do not think the federal government could do this by themselves. i do not think the academic community would have the support to be able to do it by themselves. and then we want to bring in another component, which is as important as the other, the pharmaceut

right also find we already starting traditional medicines you know with researched ok we've actually shown to be. fantastic professor thank you so much that's all we have time for that's professor paul callan thank you so much sir thank you for having me thank you so much. at the weekend sudan's transitional government and several rebel groups signed a historic peace agreement in the south sudanese capital juba the deal covers several thorny issues from land ownership to compensation and power sharing hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions displaced in decades of different conflicts across the dan including the regional stuff for now though the peace still marks an important step for the country observers say the road ahead could still prove to be a bumpy 12 of the main rebel groups have refused to sign the deal. the mood was upbeat and for sudan finally a positive moment. the hope is that the peace deal will bring an end to decades of strife within the country. after the overthrow of omar al bashir a top priority for the new power sharing government has been to end t

industry and much of the research that we do takes place in the u.s., medicines are available to many patients in the u.s., i tell you in the case that it's almost $10 billion a year with the u.s. company in research and development and there are 13000 dedicated scientist that work at the company and the innovation for us is really important in order to continue, we are discussing multiple were ends meet in a big difference for patients at the same time in the next three years, we will invest more than $2 billion in the development of the next generation of medicines, some of them represent extraordinarily innovation, the reason why we can do that is because we have a system that will reward innovation in that system is one that we should work together on. >> the gentleman's time is expired. >> i now recognize -- >> thank you, madam chair, can you hear me. >> we can hear you and we conceal. >> thank you, thank you for the hearing, i want to echo those who indicated and sorely missed chairman's comings on this issue, he was a bulldog in the president talked a good game and he talked ab

appointing two extra advisers on covid who will bring expertise from the field of medicine, epidemiology and clinical researchis related to health policies. understanding individual risk by this commission. i also wanted to catch good work done by local authorities and directors of public health so we can learn lessons that help at a local level so there will be a rapid review of local authority reaction to support ethnic minority communities. the package of announcements i have announced today are part of a year—long group and will give us a better insight in protecting those most at risk and how we can address long—standing public health inequalities. i would report back to the house with another update at the end of the next quarter. kemi badenoch speaking there in the commons. as we've been hearing the chancellor rishi sunak has been setting out fresh support for workers in parts of england that are under tier 2 restrictions — that's the high alert level. it follows criticism that his winter economic plan was based on a model of falling coronavirus infections and a recovering economy. the chancellor says

. >> reporter: stanford's school of medicine launched the research study this week called c.a.t.c.h., the community alines to test the coronavirus at home. researchers say it will help them figure out a more accurate number of covid cases in the bay area and help them identify hot spots, too. >> what we want to do is track people who might be infected and people who aren't infected. >> reporter: the university developed an online program called vera where people can log on, register and track their symptoms. researchers need more people to register to participate in the study so they can see whether the at-home testing plan works for everyone. angie mauer from danville already did. >> by the next day, almost 24 hours, actually, i received my results, which was amazing. the steps, the equipment, the materials provided are very secure, very well-done. instructions are super simple. >> reporter: arthur libberman is 80 years old and a retired scientist. he believes stanford's test is the safest way for vulnerable groups like himself to check for coronavirus. >> this way, it's at home, zer

medicines. how did the cost of research and development affect the pricing of your new drugs? >> quite unique considered an orphaned disease. the diseases we've been talking about today, leukemia, et cetera, these are very rare diseases that was approved during the time approximately 4,000 people in the united states per u year. so we have targeted to these needs on the belief first by the drug act that we would over time and build a successful company for very small rare difficult cancers. how does the cost of research and development affect the drugs? >> there we spend money as i mentioned before too the tune of the u.s. dollars per year but similar it's much more high risk innovative research and they make it finally so of course there is a cost for the failures allocated. >> thank you. many of my colleagues today would have us believe they are necessary for the well-being of the american public. this means the government could come in at any time and take back patents from drug companies. how do you think they would show innovation? >> yes, congresswoman. continuing to rec

when public attention is very much focused on medical advances the nobel prize for medicine has been awarded for research dating back decades americans harvey alter and charles rice and the briton michael how to have been honored for discovering the hepatitis c. virus of the nations for this year's award preceded the global pandemic but the noble assembly says the prize recognizes the importance of identifying a virus as the 1st step in winning the battle against the seeds. 9 days into the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan both sides appear to be ramping up was still a tease over the disputed territory of nagorno-karabakh the nato chief added his voice to calls for an immediate ceasefire as dozens more casualties were reported in the deadliest fighting there for more than 25 years the remote mountainous region is officially part of us survive but it's ethnically armenian and has been an officially run by a minyan forces since the end of a 6 year war in 1994 the go to look at a box says every forces have been launching sustained rocket strikes on its capital stepping the kept but the fighting is fre

research. it's on going right now, at new york university school of medicine. >> yeah, you bring up the lungs. we know covid that is -- attacks the lungs. what are some of the long term effects of covid-19 we have seen so far that we understand so far, in addition to what you just mentioned, what kelce be done to help? >> yeah, so primarily in the lungs. we don't have a lot of information on that. there is a process of inflammation and scarring that may develop over time, and that is the same process in the raid occasion therapy patients thatry seeing also in the covid long haulers and that is where the study is looking at. whetherby owe 300 can prevent or mitigate that. >> i always try to fold in questions from those who view us on facebook. i have one coming in right now. randall davis wants to know, can you ask how far the virus germs can travel outdoors? we hear it's safer to be outdoors but if there is a breeze or a wind? >> yeah, the current research and guidelines from the cdc, is what they are finding is the primary method of transmission is respiratory droplets and they are looking at

medicines are they deleted or thought it is right also find we already studying traditional medicines you know we're researched ok we've actually shown to be. fantastic professor thank you so much that's all we have time for that's professor. thank you so much sir thank you for having me thank you so much. at the weekend sudan's transitional government and several rebel groups signed a historic peace agreement in the south sudanese capital juba the deal covers several thorny issues from land ownership to compensation and power sharing hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions displaced in decades of different conflicts across the dan including the regional stuff for now though the peace deal marks an important step for the country observers say the road ahead could still prove to be a bumpy one to off the main rebel groups have refused to sign the deal. the mood was on beat and for sudan finally a positive moment. the hope is that the peace deal will bring an end to decades of strife within the country. after the overthrow of omar al bashir a top priority for the new power sharing government has b

. >> reporter: also this morning, new information on how effective masks r new research in the journal of medicine found since airlines started requiring masks there hasn't been a single superspreader event. southwest airlines, by the way, also announcing today it will start selling the middle seat come december 1st. tom costello in washington. back to you. >> president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, is denying he had anything -- or did anything wrong in the new borat film. giuliani talks to a young fake female reporter in a bedroom. during that prank, sasha baron cohen calls him his teenage daughter. he said he was only adjusting his clothing after taking off a microphone. he also calls the video a fabrication and says he was never inappropriate. [ bell tolls ] >> there you have the opening bell of the new york stock exchange. the dow is up aspell owesy signals progress on that stimulus deal. jobless numbers are released and 787,000 people applied for first-time claims. that's less than what analysts expected. more than 8 million people are still receiving continuous jobless benefits. on

with the likes of dr mikael sodergren at the sapphire clinics to try to get more clinical research, the same medicinee best. thank you. visitors to salisbury cathedral are being given a rare chance to take a glimpse behind the scenes, as stone masons work to preserve parts of the 800—year—old structure. john maguire is at the cathedral and sent this report. its spire stretches 123 metres into the heavens, just above 400 feet, making it the tallest in britain. it dominates the city of salisbury and the surrounding countryside. but it's only up close that you gain a full appreciation of this building and the people who created it. we're climbing the scaffolding on the among the parapets tour, covid—secure, of course, but a chance to see the scale of the task at hand. this is a gablet. and there is a buttress below. we've introduced new stones here, which you can see. there's old stones above. this is what this one did look like originally, but obviously all the detail‘s gone. so in order to reproduce a new one, the mason has got a lot of scope to introduce their new flowing design. as long as it's goth

workers have had covid and most say they did not have that's concerning have researchers at boston university school of medicine tested more than a 100 grocery workers they found that there was a significantly higher rate of infection. >>than what was seen in the surrounding community. workers who dealt with customers were 5 times as likely to test positive for covid-19 that's compared to workers in other positions, 3 out of 4 of those who tested positive go had no symptoms. >>the open enrollment period for covered california starts this sunday. it will run until the end of january currently one and a half million people are insured through covered california. this year the state expanded the program to offer subsidies to more middle income families to help them cover the cost of their premiums. still ahead language barriers at the polling place what as a nurse, i've faced the fear of being stretched too thin to do my job right. and it's not just health care workers. our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. how can

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killed more than 100000 people and millions of patients shortages of food and medicines will not be able cories a senior research at the atlantic council he says the timing of the prisoner swap benefits president trump. these 3 sitters should've never been this should have been done before they at the time the who he is claiming that they were spies but there is no evidence whatsoever that these people were working with any us intelligence agency. at any rate i think refining now and as i say this could have happened earlier. is that for donald trump administration this is a good time to bring back americans from overseas it's. one more thing he can boast about just before the us elections. from the hostess point of view this is also a good thing because there was a move in washington to classify them as if they were disorganization well obviously if there were still classified. the us government's hands would be. on the principle that they don't deal with terrorists so what this means how to forestall. some of the hawks who are calling war classifying the who these as that are. fighting between armenia and azer

for medicine and primary outcomes research you must have done quite a lot of work when it comes to covert 19. what are we looking for in the next coming days. for communication from the white house what type of language should we be looking for to find out how serious this is. why i think that there should be a plan from the white house to basically you know help demonstration navigate through this whether the president is healthy or that he's sick and so you should have 2 plans and they should work come forth plans so that there's a seamless transition should it be needed because we really don't know what's going to happen to the president with the infection given that he's in over 60 years old . you know we certainly hope that the government will have this type of plan how important his physical health versus his age if say for example this it happened to a healthier fitter man. would he would he recover or she recover more quickly. in general that's true but it also depends on if they have preexisting conditions or someone might appear healthy but they may have diabetes but you won't b

i want to bring in associate professor at the center for policy and research and emergency medicine at oregon health and science university. tim mentioned the steroid. what are the side effects of the steroid medication he is on? there are psychological side effects? behavioral side effects potentially? >> there certainly are a number of side effects steroids including mania and psychosis. and not everyone experiences that. they are a big risk. so much so when we put people on high doses for covid-19, we all know that we'll watch people carefully. for the behaviors. it's not just the steroids to be clear. they are just one thing. it's the covid-19 itself has and dipping oxygen levels can effect brain function. and numerous new medications and you're an older person in and out of the hospital and the environment is changing. that can have an effect on your mental status and judgment. your psychological state. there's a phenomena among older patients called sun downing. you get completely confused. he has multiple reasons to have flux waiting mental status changes. over the past few days

theedes: obesity has been central part of my research program in preventive medicine, and there are manys to preventing obesity. there is no magic pill to treat obesity. it require sustained commitment to behavior change and the resources to be able to make that. it has been hard for people in quarantine to exercise at the same level they were able to. for those of us in northern climates, it will be hard to be outside. i think we need to maintain a weight, buttrolling i did not think it will rise to level of priority of what we need as far as preventing coronavirus bread. tom: thank you so much. from northwestern and preventive medicine. mercedes carnethon. i think it is extraordinary to see where we are in this pandemic. the deterioration in europe, i will be honest. i am supposed to be in tune with this, it captured me by surprise. lisa: especially in italy. was it discussion about herd immunity? that was dashed. -- facui tourat herd immunity to strips. lisa: one thing i find interesting, if you look at the data, numbers are going up faster in rural and suburban areas then urban areas

medicine. british scientist michael houghton, along with us researchers harvey alter and charles rice, won thextraordinary games in the premier league, with liverpool and manchester united conceding 13 goals between them. joe wilson takes a look back at last night‘s action. if you don‘t want to see what happened yesterday then, as the saying goes, look away now. liverpool‘s second choice goalkeeper helped aston villa to theirfirst goal. it‘s a partial explanation. but don‘t dwell purely on liverpool mistakes. aston villa were too strong, too committed, too good. if you sort of try to block shots, then they sometimes end up going in. commentator: it's 3—1, to aston villa! from exeter via weston—super—mare and brentford, 0llie watkins came to the premier league. he was disappointed to only score three last night. ross barkley, on his aston villa debut, just a little deflection. itjust goes for you, some days. it‘s just that all those "some days" happened on this sunday. six, yeah. but you make your own luck. and when aston villa have a player as good as jack grealish... commentator: and it's a m

we partnered with major research companies in this country and developed medicines that are literallyy day and we are on track to have the first safe and effective coronavirus vaccine and tens of millions of doses before the end of this year. [cheering and applause] let me say on behalf of president trump how moved we have all been in the outpouring of concern and prayers for the president and the first lady over this past week. i spoke to the president this morning and told him i was headed to arizona and i got to tell you president trump and first lady millenia are doing just great and he will be back on the road and in the fight before you know it. [applause] the outpouring of concern for our first family, president and i know it's emblematic of the love, care and wonderful medical treatment that every american family impacted by the coronavirus is having. it really is incredible. would you join me and just taking a moment, could be just thank you to our doctors, nurses, first responders and everyone who has kept america moving forward. healing are sick and comforting those who suf

when public attention is focused on new medical advances this year's nobel prize for medicine has been awarded for researchdating back decades americans to harvey alter and charles reiss and the briton michael houghton have been on earth for the scuppering the hepatitis c. virus the harding reports. getting a blood transfusion used to be a gamble there was an unknown disease causing liver damage and it wasn't hepatitis a or b. in 19893 scientists were able to clone the unnamed virus called it at the time to see this year's nobel prize in physiology or medicine awards the discovery of the hepatitis c. virus americans harvey alter and charles reiss along with british born scientist michael houghton are considered pioneers in their field well i think or we're you know sort of maybe for the 1st while i'm actually sort of. you know sort of what. a functional. you know the genome. which is more a name for him. the nobel committee says thanks to their discovery highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available their discovery also allowed the rapid development of antiviral drugs directed at hepatitis c

research. we will find new medicines and new cures.t for cancer, but for everything from diabetes to hiv/aids. [ cheers and applause ] at a time when there is more computer power in a palm pilot than in a spaceship that took neil armstrong to the moon, we will offer all of our people lifelong learning and new skills for the higher-paying jobs of the future. the amount of human knowledge is doubling every five years and science and technology are advancing so rapidly, we will do bold things to make our schools the best in the world. i will fight for the greatest single commitment to education since the g.i. bill. the revolutionary improvements in our schools, for higher standards and more accountability, to put fully qualified teachers in every classroom. test all new teachers and give teachers the training and professional development they dwe deserve. it's time to treat teachers like the professionals they are. [ cheers and applause ] it's not just about more money. it's about higher standards, accountability, new ideas. but we can't

medicines that saved millions of lives. the assembly added the nobel winners' research is an achievement in the ongoing battle against viraliseases. >>> now to the united states, where the president is being treated for covid-19 with just weeks to go until the november election. donald trump prisurprised his supporters sunday with a brief appearance outside the hospital where he spent the weekend. nhk camera crew captured video of the 74-year-old waving from a motorcade before returning to the medical center. some u.s. media are criticizing trump for staging a photo-op before he's recovered from the disease that killed over 200,000 people in the country. commentators are also focusing on the secret service agents who were in the vehicle, saying trump put them at risk of infection. a white house spokesperson defended the decision, saying the motorcade had been cleared by the medical team, and appropriate precautions were taken. hours before stutrump's appeara, he posted a video about his ordeal. >> it has been an interesting journey. i learned a lot about covid. i learned it by reallyoing to school. this is the real schoolo

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those innovations have been supported by the government. , the advances in medicine we are all looking for. who did the researchled to dna? who did the research that led to all the major advances in biology? it is the government. one of the things i called for recognizing the success of the united states has been based on a balance between the market, the government, and civil society. we lost that balance beginning with ronald reagan that said the government was the problem. we now in this pandemic have seen an ill-prepared government is not there when we need it. argumenthe strongest for what i call for in my book, a new social contract with the new balance, has been precisely the failures we have just seen in this pandemic. tom: joe stiglitz, we have to leave it there. thank you for your comments on chair yellen early in this discussion. with ael laureate out new book. it has been an extraordinary day. i guess it is right on cue, things heating up. lisa: we are getting very close to the election and the conviction in markets is shopping given where we were a few weeks ago with people counting on several mont

of america approach and we began to immediately partner, not just with research companies developing a vaccine in developing medicine partnered with manufacturing firms around the country, with ge healthcare, with general motors and ford. they literally repurposed manufacturing lines to build ventilators around america, and as we sit here today and as we see cases begin to rise in some heartland states, we have 150,000 ventilators in the strategic national stockpile. we prove this summer during the outbreak in the sun belt that we now have the ppe, we have the testing, we have the supplies to meet this moment and make sure every american has a level of healthcare we would want any member of our family to have. none of that would've been possible but for the fact that the president literally, in one industry after another in those early days, called businesses into the white house, sat them down around the table in the cabinet room and said what are you going to do to respond to this moment. there were times that he used what's called the defense production act. he used the authority he has as president of the united

20000 samples so far in 15 different partners in industry in medicine this stem cell bank is unique in europe it's a promising project and researchers hope that it might one day provide new therapies for ai conditions that today are untreatable. this therapy won't be available anytime soon. but we have been able to show that the therapy would work in principle calls now we'll have. to get through the approval process which is time consuming and involves a lot of regulatory steps let's us it's a process that takes several years here in germany. the researchers have laid the groundwork for a revolutionary new therapy using reprogrammed stem cells to restore vision in a few years this might be a major advance in preventing a.m.d. related blindness. at the medical university of vienna scientists are also staking out new territory. therefore it is director of the department of up the monetary and optometry which is investigating new diagnostic procedures for eye conditions. is unfriends our eyes are our window to the world and cellphone but we can also look into the eyes into what's happening inside them. we can look into the clear corne

researchers at boston university school of medicine tested more than a 100 grocery workers. they found there was a significantly higher rate of infection. then that was seen in the surrounding community workers who dealt with customers were 5 times as likely to test positive for covid-19 compared to workers in other positions, 3 out of 4 of those who were tested. had no symptoms. and new this friday cruises will soon be able to set sail once again. the cdc has lifted its ban on cruises in the united states. a no sail order was issued in march as the pandemic took hold in order to resume offering cruises companies will have to meet strict cdc guidelines that include having labs for testing passengers on board. coming up the health trend that many americans have taken up or not during the pandemic. and wildfire victims in santa cruz county were treated to something really special today. >>it's time now to check in with news nation on wgn america to see what they're working on for tonight, joe donlon joins us now live from chicago with the preview happy friday. >>save you justi