too and according to a two thousand and nine review of the epidemic of obesity by the national institutes of health people who live in the most poverty dense counties in the us are those who are most prone to obesity meaning pretty much that our poorest people are fat now there are lots of ways to parse the data for instance higher income women are less likely to be obese and low income women but the same might not be true for men but all of this can be filed under one big having a no doc right because we all know this by now we've all seen the pie charts and heard lots of talking heads that yapping about this data for a while now and we all know our food has become clairette because of broken big agriculture and corporate greed our blood has become just another way for fact cat fight intended to make money and the result is that our food is making us all fat which is making us all sick we've all been talking about the correlation. between party disease stroke diabetes certain types of cancer and obesity for a while now what we're not talking about is how we do is sleep crazy it is that we

national -- dr. collins of the national institutes of health has done an amazing work. if we are not investing in the national institutes of health at the level they need, whether it ,s autism, alzheimer's, heart diabetes research for rea made so much progress, then these are not just jobs, there are lives that will be lost. i just want to emphasize again that what the chairman did was important but did not go far enough, because these kids did not get back those years. the opportunity to get research done and save lives and create jobs is absolutely essential. isgree the cr we the worst possible thing to be done, but the regular order portion of it, and i think what you are both committed to is the process to actually bring forward appropriation bills and passed them and hopefully the senate will do the same thing. >> that is the problem. we passed all 12 of the appropriations bills through the house committee. we passed seven of them on the floor of the house. the meantime, the senate did nothing. they refused to take up a single appropriations bill. so it takes two to

director ofins.the the national institutes of health. >> dr. francis collins, can you give us in a nutshell what nih >> the national institute of health is an amazing place. it has a budget every year of approximately $30 billion. half of that goes out to grants in every state of the nation. when you hear about a breakthrough that has happened in diabetes research or autism or alzheimer's, it is very likely that it came from a university or institute somewhere that was supported by nih. that is what we do. we support the best and brightest to chase after their visionary ideas, and we think we are good at that. as thet is the influence? director, with 27 institutes and centers, how do you influence what goes on? >> it is a very big place. it has 27 institutes and centers. they are various diseases- or organ-instance focused.there is a can start institute, a diabetes institute, a heart and lung institute. each of these is led by remarkable, world-class scientists. they work across the landscape to try to identify what has to happen next in order t

>> if sugar were just empty calories, then the food industry, the institute of medicine, the national institutes of health, the surgeon general and everybody else would be right to. be part of a balanced diet you get discretionary sugar, no problem. >> stephen: it is. >> a calorie is not a calorie. that's what they would have you believe. >> stephen: those are experts. smart guys with letters after their names just like you do. why are you right and everybody else is wrong? we'll take one example. alcohol. >> stephen: all the time. [ laughter ] >> all right. and i do, too but in low dose. >> stephen: sure, absolutely slow drip. >> absolutely. infuse it just enough so that -- >> stephen: gets you there, baby. that little click. >> alcohol are not empty calories. they are toxic calories. why? fries your liver. so does sugar. we've done two liver transplants an 15-year-old soda drinkers at ucsf. >> stephen: you call sugar a poison. >> in high dose. >> stephen: why not a more alarming term like sugar is hitler. these two kids are outliers it's tragic. they are outliers. >> no they are not. 32% of america has

anthony fouch chi from the national institutes of health. today we saw where the deadly florida sink hole looks like. it swallowed a 37-year-old man. the story has a lot of people worrying about a natural hazard. david mattingly will take us inside another sinkhole. you can see how somebody can disappear inside one. we'll be right back. >>> jodi arias back on the stand with her murder trial. more tawdry details about her sex life. we will take a look at today's testimony and talk about an interesting twist that could be on the way when we continue. ♪ ...as it is being there. ♪ [ birds chirping ] away is where the days are packed with wonder... ♪ [ wind whistles ] ...and the evenings are filled with familiar comforts. find your away. for a dealer and the rv that's right for you, visit gorving.com. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one

amendment that i will -- that i'm going to discuss adds $1.4 billion in spending for the national institutes of health. and our citizens and our country face a significant challenge. there's not a family in our nation that's not been -- has not suffered from the consequences of cancer and other horrendous diseases. and we've seen tremendous success. america leads the world in finding cures and treatments for those diseases. a problem is that the funding for n.i.h. ha has remained as a virtual standstill since 2010. and, in my view, those who come to congress with the desire to make sure that every dime, every nickel is wisely spent, and those who come to the congress with the belief that we need to care for people and provide compassion to all can come together and jointly agree that money spent on the national institutes of health is both that; it's a sense of providing well-being, comfort, care, and treatment for people who desperately need that, and it's the realization that when we invest in research, in projects that ultimately cure a disease, that we are saving money. we save money by curing and

. >> as the head of the national institutes of health, do you appoint the heads of the national institutes national cancer institute's and other centers? >> they are appointed by the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, but i have a very heavy role in making a recommendation, and i do so generally by organizing a search committee of the best and brightest people in that field to try to identify the perfect person, have them go through all of that vetting, and then have them make a recommendation to the secretary. it is not easy. we cannot pay them probably than a quarter of what their market value would be. you can barely squeeze up to $300,000. very few of our directors are that level. most of them could the college presidents, or executive vice deans of medical centers. they get paid three or four times that. >> why did you get picked for the human genome project? >> i have wondered that. >> and who picked you? >> the nih director, who died of cancer, of a brain tumor. that level. she reached out to me very early in the project. it started in 1990, and the first dir

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institutions claim they stand to lose millions of dollars because of the sequestration cuts. officials at ucsf say the university stands to lose up to $30 million in funding from the national institute of health. the city of san francisco says it will lose $25 million in federal funding and the san francisco unified school district says it faces a loss of $4 million used for nutrition and head start programs. >>> california republicans are gathering tonight in sacramento for the party's three-day annual spring convention. at the top of the agenda is figuring out how to best move forward after a blistering defeat in november. the election gave democrats a two-thirds majority in both the state assembly and the senate. a thousand gop delegates are expected to attend this weekend's convention to discuss how best to rebuild their party. >> as time goes on and voters are going to want solutions to the record-high unemployment and taxes, republicans need not only to have a plan, but a relationship with those voters. >> state republicans are also facing some financial challenges with the party's $500,000 in debt. >>> santa clara county supervisor george shirakawa resigned from office today, claiming

a report from the national institutes of health show beer consumption fell between 1998 and 2010. while wine drinking was up and hard liquor drinking was up. even so, beer is still the most popular alcoholic beverage in california with california adults drinking on average almost a gallon of beer each year. >>> amazon ceo says he's recovered two rocket engines that helped fly apollo restaurants to the moon. they've been in the atlantic. a team led recovered some of the hardware. there are plans to restore them. blue origins has a contract to develop a space taxi to deliver supplies and astronauts. >>> a former astronaut warned congress about the threat of undetected asteroids. edward lou said the asteroid that hit russia could have caused more damage had had struck new york. the astronaut injured 1500 people. the threat of a bigger impact is quite likely. >> there's a 30% chance that there's a 5 megaton impact that's going to happen on this planet this century. so this is not hypothetical. >> lu founded the b 612 foundation to build a privatesy financed space telescope to deflect

regardless of where someone lives or where they go to see the doctor, the cut to the national institutes of health threatens all of us. and that's what these cuts are going to do to medical research. cutting $1.6 billion from the national institutes of health. i've always said i'll take this issue to any corner of america, any group, liberal or conservative, young or old, and make my case that an investment in health care research is one of the most important investments our government makes. and when we shortchange medical research, we shortchange our future. great medical care is only as good as the science behind it. drugs and devices work only as well as our yo you understandinf the -- as we will as our understanding of the medical treatment. we lead the world and should be proud of it. we have the bright minds, the curious scientists shall th scie innovative labs. today countless people are engaged in work that lead to treatments forage right ice, alzheimer's, aids, diabetes, cancer, the list goes on. biomedical research supported by the n.i.h. has established the united states as a leader in

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the national institutes of health is cut in this budget by at least $1.6 billion. it's a $30 billion budget, the defense department's $550 billion. i submit to you, mr. speaker, our enemy is disease. and the department of defense for the human being and the human body is the national institutes of health. at some place, the two parties should be able to come together and agree we need to fund research which creates jobs and find cures and treatments. the other side talks about what this will do to children and grandchildren. i've heard people talk about their children and grirn and what their mothers would want. their mothers want their children to live long lifes and not suffer from cancer and get cures and get dreams. and the cures and treatments -- if i could have 30 seconds additional. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. cohen: the cures will benefit the next generation and the generation after that more than this generation that place where spending dollars creates job, saves lives and benefits future generations. most resea

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but the national institutes of health fixed all that. make the type bigger, increase contrast, even make it talk to you. just go to nihseniorhealth.gov and get the best medical information available anywhere. nih seniorhealth.gov. built with you in mind. um] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] [phone ring,] car brakes hard [phone ring] [car crash] glass shatters [sirens] this video was submitted by a student through the safety scholars program. for more information on teen safety visit driversedge.org. >> this report is brought to you by u by kotex. these middle- and high-school girls are in for a big surprise. >> we're super-excited to introduce a longtime friend and partner -- khloé kardashian odom. [ cheers and applause ] [ up-tempo music plays ] >> it's all part of a new movement for girls called "generation know." >> generation know is really -- it's a forum to start a conversation amongst girls. you know, if people are too afraid or shy to talk to their own family or to other people about their bodies or changes or whatever,

let me submit that the research done at the national institutes of health to find for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, alzheimer's, aids, post polio, cures, treatments will affect the jackson generation more than this -- the next generation more than this generation. the enemy is disease and we need to conquer it and keep our loved ones alive and keep ourselves alive and have better cures. we talk about infrastructure, the most important infrastructure is the infrastructure of the human body and that's what the national institutes of health is about. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman recognized? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise to congratulate abbey helen, a remarkable young woman from glasgow, mth, recently named ms. teen montana international. she's the granddaughter of mt.'s former congressman. she is passionate about reading and making sure montanans of all ages have access to books. mr. danes: she's going to -- mr. daines: east going to support the i love to read week and pr

national institutes of health, we're especially proud of this. the omnibus, the senate c.r. that's before us has a $71 million more than last year. this amendment bumps it up to $211 million. so, the c.r. has $71 million. we have $211 million for n.i.h. increase. child care, the underlying c.r. includes $50 million more than last year. my amendment would increase that to $107 million. that means child-care subsidies for working families of 10,000 additional children, families who basically depend upon this so they are able to go to work. aids drugs, the ryan white aids drugs assistance program provides lifesaving drugs to people living with h.i.v., my amendment includes $29 million more for this program. the c.r. has no increase whatsoever. so far i mentioned only some of the larger programs in the bill. my amendment addresses dozens of smaller priorities as well. at the full committee markup of the labor h. bill back in july of last year, senator inouye who was chairman at that time promised senator murkowski that the final fy 2013 spending bill would include $10 million fo

of 28 or $30 million. >> reporter: ucsf is the nation's largest public recipient of national institutes of health funds andic research. school of medicine research say the cuts will be felt most in research. >> the impact it's having, having a sudden cut of this sort is that experiments that are planned to be done won't get done. >> reporter: public health officials say that in the next seven months, 100 aids research grants will be cut. more than 700,000 will lose prescription coverage for hiv drugs, and almost half a million hiv tests will no longer be performed by public health departments. >> hiv rates start to go up, then they will notice. but they don't get it right now. >> reporter: the district faces nearly $4 million loss in federal funds that help pay for nutrition and head start programs. >> those are areas that we intend to protect and so when we're looking at our budget for next year, we'll actually be looking at what other services might need to be cut. >> reporter: and san francisco estimates a loss of an additional $20 million and 14,000 jobs due to a loss of cleanup services for former mil

even hit a national institute of health facility a couple of years ago and the "world health organizationcomeback. the problem is we've been using the same antibiotics so much, for so long, and have barely invented anything new since the 1980s. we are losing the germ war because we stopped fighting it. let's bring in cory abar at tulane university. thank you for being on the show. >> thank you for having me. it's always a pleasure to be here. >> john: tell me that the story is not as terrifying as it seems. why did we stop developing new antibiotics? >> i hate that it is the truth but it is. i'm a straight shooter. antibiotics is not sexy. when you have short-term solution to short-term problem there is no return on investment. but if you have an investment on diabetes, they will invest in that because it's a life-long problem that they can make money of. the same on hypertension. the reality is it has not been sexy because it does not make a lot of money. but now we find ourselves in a big problem because we don't have a lot of our medicines in the pipeline that can really address the pr

of the national institutes? >> they are appointed by the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, but i have aheavy role in making a recommendation, and i do so generally by organizing a search committee of the best and brightest people in that field to try to identify the perfect person, have them go through all of that vetting, and then have them make a recommendation to the secretary. it is not easy. we cannot pay them probably more than a quarter. you can barely squeeze up to $300,000. very few of our directors are at that level. they get paid three or four times that. >> why did you depicted to do the human genoa project? >> i have wondered that -- why did you get picked for the human genome project? >> i have wondered that. it started in 1990, and the first person was james watson, of watson and crick. i was at the university of michigan. i had been hunting for genes that cause diseases, including for a disease called neurofibromatosis. but i was not expecting to get a call to come to nih and lead that effort, and i initially said no because it did not seem like something i was ready to

and two is good brains as i call it studies over the last five years coming out of the national institute of health has told us that the age of 18 we don't automatically become a chore. our brain really doesn't mature until 25. i got a bunch of email over the last week or so from coaches and teachers who really agreed with that: the other source, of course, is parents. in here she was raised by the state from 12 to 18, bill. >> bill: this woman was, this miss delaware didn't have good parents? >> yeah. >> bill: okay. so you are going to cut her a little bit of slack. i'm not objecting to that? >> i am. >> bill: i think primarily that ms. king knew that what she did was wrong. might not be morally wrong for her. but it was wrong in the scheme of if you are going to be a serious person, you don't make a hard core porn film. >> how would she know that bill? >> bill: how would she know that? because she lives in the united states. >> her influences are kim kardashian. her influences are people, bill, who have troifn celebrity and made money off things like pornography. now, this young girl we own. >> b

a report from the national institutes of health show beer consumption fell between 1998 and 2010. while wine drinking was up and hard liquor drinking was up. even so, beer is still the most popular alcoholic beverage in california with california adults drinking on average almost a gallon of beer each year. >>> amazon ceo says he's recovered two rocket engines that helped fly apollo restaurants to the moon. they've been in the atlantic. a team led recovered some of the hardware. there are plans to restore them. blue origins has a contract to develop a space taxi to deliver supplies and astronauts. >>> a former astronaut warned congress about the threat of undetected asteroids. edward lou said the asteroid that hit russia could have caused more damage had had struck new york. the astronaut injured 1500 people. the threat of a bigger impact is quite likely. >> there's a 30% chance that there's a 5 megaton impact that's going to happen on this planet this century. so this is not hypothetical. >> lu founded the b 612 foundation to build a privatesy financed space telescope to deflect

federal grants include those from the national institute of health and national science foundation. arch funding makes up 17% of stanford's $4 billion budget. >> time is 6:14. the san jose man accused of trying to blow up a bank in oakland is due in court. the 28-year-old was arrested last month in an fbi terrorism sting. the fbi says he wanted to join the taliban. an undercover agent gave him a fake car bomb which he allegedly tried to set off in front of a bank of america. the court hearing today will consider a defense request for a mental health evaluation. >> according to a new poll, most people in san francisco seem to approve of the job major ed lee is doing as mayor. 65% of the people surveyed have a favorable opinion of mayor lee. that's only a slight drop from last year. voters seem to be less improved with the board of supervisors. the board as a whole has a 53% favorable rating. that's an improvement from last year. >> 6:19 is the time now. sal is keeping an eye on the commute. a couple of problems this morning. >> one of them is in oakland, westbound 24 near college aven

in 2008, the national institutes of health weighed in with an eye-opening rodent study. it uncovered clear evidence that high doses of chromium 6 in drinking water cause cancer in rats and mice. >> reporter: does it settle anything in your view? >> i think that starts the conversation as to perhaps maybe it is a drinking water carcinogen but it's just one study that needs additional work. >> reporter: in 2011, wise joined eight other scientists on a panel that advised the e.p.a. on what a new standard for chromium 6 contamination in u.s. tap water should be. the current standard, set 20 years ago, is 100 parts per billion, 5,000 times higher than the state of california's public health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water. wise was among panelists who voted to delay a decision, allowing time for more study. even though the e.p.a. has been agency initially said it needed four more years. >> reporter: good afternoon and welcome to iris public stakeholder meeting the chromium standard is bogged down in iris, the integrated risk information system, which aims to insure the b

anthony fauci of the national institutes of health and rowena johnston vice president and director of research at the american foundation for aids research or a.m.f.a.r. dr. fauci, few babies are now born h.i.v.-infected in the united states because their mothers are usually already on apt eye retro viral medicine. but when it does happen what's the normal protocol? what usually happens? >> what happens is that if you get good prenatal care, the mother if she's infected during the pregnancy would be treated just like you would treat any other infectedded person. both for her own health as well as for the fact that it would dramatically diminish the likelihood that that mother would transmit the virus to their baby during the period of peri-natal or during the birth period. to be extra especially sure that that doesn't happen, what you do is you then not fully robustly treat but the baby with one or two drugs which is not enough for a full treatment but enough for prevention. you do that for six weeks. if the baby turns out to not be infected, then you stop that... if the baby turns ou

the national institutes of health recently awarded $1.5 million to a boston hospital. to study why many lesbians are overweight and most gay men are not. the feds calling this a silg can't -- significant public health issue. are you kidding me? why am i paying for that? let the overweight lesbians go to weight watchers if they want to like everybody else. here is another one, nasa will spend close to $1 million. researching a quote, mars menu. recipes for food that could some day be served on the planet mars. here is a bulletin. money is already living on mars. that's insane. i don't want to pay for it the feds are stealing my tax dollars. another one, sure the united states agency for national development funding a four year project that will improve the economic competitiveness of morocco. morocco the country in north africa. key part of this project, training moroccans to redesign porter. the cost to the american people $27 million. why can't the moroccan government teach their own people to design porter. i will tell you why. because we will send them 27 million, t

and costly process that was paid for with $25 million of federal stimulus money from the national institutes of health. the data is stored digitally, billions of bits, in these u.c.s.f. servers. >> we think of this as really a gold mine, but a lot of gold is still in the mine. i mean, you need pickaxes to give it up. >> reporter: kaiser's schaefer says researchers are just beginning to tap into the database gold mine, and she thinks alzheimer's will be one of the diseases which will be better understood by what they find in the data bank. >> we don't have any way right now to treat alzheimer's. we don't have any way to prevent alzheimer's. so if we can understand what are the underlying pathways by which genes and environment interacting actually create the disease, then we have a chance to interrupt that process. >> reporter: researchers acknowledge that the promise of genetics to treat and potentially prevent disease is moving slower in some cases than initially expected. but schaefer and others are also convinced that genetics will play a vital role in determining which medicines can most benefit p

two, the national institutes of health will cut $1.56 billion, cutting back research in areas such as alzheimer's, environmental health, links to breast cancer and mental health services. sequestration hurts mothers. while the united states lags behind other industrialized nations in preventing maternal and infant mortality, sequestration cuts $4 million from the safe motherhood initiative, $50 million from the maternal and child health services, and incredibly, will deny life-saving in immunization to 30,000 children. three, sequestration hurts women as caregivers. women are typically the caregivers, not just to children, but to aging parents. sequestration would cut $12.6 million from the national family caregivers program, reducing services to 700,000 family caregivers. four, sequestration will hurt the many women who work in health care professions. look at the national health service corps, education assistance and training for direct care workers, nurses, family physicians, and other health-care professionals. warning -- sequestration is bad for the health of women and their fam

i talked about the national institutes of health. i talked about how valuable the work that they do is all about. well, as a result of budget reductions, they can now only approve one out of about every seven eligible grants that they -- they make grants to our universities, to -- to groups that do work to find the answers to these diseases. they only can now give one out of every seven. as it was explained to me by dr. collins, they have to choose between the really great grant that are submitted and the great great grants that are submitted and can only take a very few number of the really worthwhile projects that are out there. so we need to do better. senator harkin's amendment would increase the amount of money going to n.i.h. by about $140 million. once again, it doesn't change the overall totals. it just adjusts the priorities from fy 2012 -- from fy 2013 to fy 2014. so i would urge my colleagues to support that amendment so that an agency like n.i.h. can get the help they need without it at all affecting the overall spending o

led the world in is scientific research, yet this budget cuts that research and cuts the national institute of health that could come up with a cure for the disses that she mentioned. and america is a place of innovation and medical investment and congress should be focused on keeping that status that we don't want to lose our leadership in innovation. to give one example, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. one in seven women will come down with breast cancer and one of the leading cancer -- causes of death among women of all races in america. in 2009, over 210,000 women in the united states were diagnosed with breast cancer and over 40,000 women died from the disease. over the past five years, the national institute of health spent more than $3 billion on breast cancer research, which dwarfs any amount we see in the private sector or nonprofit sector. and yet, the ryan budget -- the n.i.h. would be cut and slashed by billions and billions of dollars. yet, these dollars are the hope for saving lives. they're the hope for finding cures. and we know that health research has paid

non-defense agencies like the national institutes of health and the national science foundation are feeling the pinch. read more on our science page. plus, on this week's "ask the headhunter," forget fancy explanations and complex jargon on your resume. focus instead on what you can bring to the company. read more tips on our making sense page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> suarez: and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at the lessons learned during the u.s. reconstruction efforts in iraq ten years after the war began. i'm ray suarez. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by cont

in 2008, the national institutes of health weighed in with an eye-opening rodent study. it uncovered clear evidence that high doses of chromium 6 in drinking water cause cancer in rats and mice. heather white is executive director of the environmental working group. >> we think that science is clear. there's been a lot more research that we've seen of the last decade that shows that there is a big cause for concern about drinking hexavalent chromium whether it would be stomach cancer, whether it be liver damage, whether it be toxicity. >> reporter: after the erin brockovich movie in 2000, california lawmakers decided life should imitate art. they chartered a so-called blue ribbon panel of scientists to help set a chromium 6 drinking water standard for the state. one of the scientists on the panel was this man, dennis paustenbach. the "newshour" and the center for public integrity learned the company he ran, chemrisk, had been hired by pacific gas and electric during the lawsuit. at the time, the most compelling scientific study that linked chromium 6 in drinking water to

of public health initiatives and those are going to get run down the toilet. what advocates are telling us, 8 or 9% cuts for food and drug administration, national institute of healthike research are going to get cut. vaccines for kids, people are saying they're going to get cut. hiv and aids care, a huge amount of range of activities that the federal government is engaged in when it comes to health care and people are saying that you know, it's all going to be in trouble. >> greta: explain this to me. like you take like the c.d.c., centers for disease control. lose 8 or 9%, is that of increased growth? i mean, it means they're not going to have as much growth as expected? that's not a real cut, if you're looking at your budget at home and $500 a month and cut it suddenly 400 a month. and the washington cut thought you were going to have 600 you'll have 550 and the old one was 500. >> health care advocates are saying in the sector they've seen cuts upon cuts upon cuts and upheaval because of the president's health care law and population is aging, hey stop cutting us. we don't benefit from the upheaval. we need continuity to make sure the american people are health