national institute of arthritis, muscular, skeletal, and skin diseases. "washington journal" is next. ♪ ♪ we will be live all morning from the national institute of health campusbethesda, maryland. we will be talking with several of the directors, including the director of the national institute of nor logical disorders and stroke. finally this morning, dr. steven katz. 27 separate institute at nih. their budget. 31,000 employees. in the meantime, we want to go through the newspapers and look at some of the news stories, including ukraine and the violence of there. the president budget is being previewed and the gop tax plan is being unveiled next week. have a public policy discussion item that you would like to add to the table, we are going to put the numbers up on the screen. you can dial in. republicans, (202) 585-3881. democrats, (202) 585-3880. independents, (202) 585-3882. go to social media. @cspanwj is our twitter handle. in our participate conversation on the nih on facebook. facebook.com/cspan. here are some headlines on the ukraine. ukraine's bloodiest day. this picture is taking a most of the front page. bodies of some of the protesters that were

next two hours, we will show you our discussions with four of the institute's directors, including the national institute of child and human health development, and the institute of arthritis, muscular, skeletal and skin diseases. we begin with the director of the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke. host: 31 thousand people work at the national institutes of health. there are seven separate institutes. their budget is about 31 billion dollars a year. they are located in bethesda, maryland, just outside the washington, d.c. borders, and story landis, is the director of the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke. what is a neurological disorder? >> there are many neurological disorders. that is a disorder that affects the brain or the spinal cord. for example, stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and disability in this country. parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder that affects movement and cognition. multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, those are the common ones, and then a whole host of rare disorders. lou gehrig's disease, spinal aggregate,rophy, in there are somewhere between 300-6

continued on in that capacity until 2008 and has now come back as the director of the entire national institute of health. he is an elected member of the institute of medicine, the national academy of sciences, was awarded the presidential medal o of freedom in november of 2007 and received the national medal of science in 2009 and i also want to welcome dr. richard hotus, the director of the national institute of ageing. he's held his position since 1993. this is our primary federal agency supporting and conducting alzheimer's disease research. as director, dr. hotus overseeing studies with a basic aspects of ageing. and dr. story landus, serving since 2003. supports and conducts basic translational research on the diseased brain system. so we welcome you all here. dr. collins, again, thank you for your leadership through all these years. both first for the human genome project and now for the entire national institute of health. dr. collins, welcome and please proceed. >> thank you. good afternoon, mr. chairman and members of the subcommittee. as always, it's great honor to appear before you along with

gary gibbons is the director of the national heart, one ofd blood institute, 27 institutes at the national institutes of health. for your time. guest: thank you. host: one more institute director coming up and that's dr. stephen katz, national institute of arthritis and and skineletal diseases. he'll be joining us in just a to takes we continue your calls. anthony in virginia, if you'd make a comment, go ahead we have no guest at this point. a comment tove make we'd like to hear from you. you.r: thank i'd like to make a comment to dr. gibbons that i'm very grateful for his organization and what they do for the country, i think it's very honorable. is thation or comment the chairman of the world health who, has recently stated that 85% of the world's health problems derive from smoking cigarettes. understand that 1400 fromcans die per day smoking cigarettes. i was just wondering, why is such a monster being sold in the united states and the world, and why is it legal? that's anthony in stewart, virginia. mark yet in north carolina, hi. caller: hi. i have heard that there's a lot drugstroversy over statin and pa

and in a half-hour, a look at the mission and role of the national institutes of health. beginning with story landis of the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke, followed by dr. alan guttmacher who heads the national institute of child health and human development. at 8:30 a.m., dr. gary gibbons of the national heart, lung, and blood institute. later, dr. stephen katz director of the national institute of arthritis muscular, skeletal, and skin diseases. "washington journal" is next. ♪ ♪ >> we will be live all morning from the national institute of health campus in bethesda, maryland. we will be talking with several of the directors, including the director of the national institute of nor logical disorders and stroke. finally this morning, dr. steven katz. 27 separate institute at nih.

that devastation of sequestration has hurt the national institutes of health significantly. chairman murray did some things to help the the future but that money that we've lost because of sequestration is gone. we not have been fair to the national institutes of health. and, mr. president, those are life saving things they're doing there. and other countries are trying to match what we have done with the national institutes of health. they can't, we're way ahead but we're not going to remain ahead unless we put some money into the national institutes of health. we need to help companies that build their products here in america. i go out of my way, mr. president, to buy new balance shoes. running shoes. why? they're made in america. the suit that i'm wearing, made in america. i'm proud of that. the president also called on congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. a huge step toward guaranteeing no american working full time lives in poverty as they now do and as the presiding officer so well illustrated last night. this proposal raising the minimum wa

. >> a strange offer from the national institutes of health. was to pay you to get the flu. >> virginia psychiatric care facilities would help -- would have more time to help people suffering from mental health problems. patients could also be held for 72 hours instead of the current 48. the task force was organized deeds24-year-old gus stabbed his father before taking his own life last november. he was sent home when no room could be found in a mental health facility. to what is being called a strange offer to -- offer from the national institute help -- institute of help. they're offering $3000 to anyone who will get the flu. butne likes getting the flu they are hoping to find dozens of volunteers to volunteer to do -- $3000.rice >> absolutely. i have a price for everything. $3000 sounds very fair for that. >> volunteers would be koran teed at building 10 at the nih campus for at least nine days and infected with a mild to moderate state ash strain of the -- mild to moderate strain of the h1n1 flu virus. >> in this setting we know exactly how

what few people see is the national institutes of health which funds most of the basic biomedical research that goes on in the world. almost $30 billion per year. the red is the stimulus but it still reads way up there. i argue a basic biomedical research is something that benefits us all that a company cannot produce it because they cannot charge for it. if you make a finding it is a lot of nature for everyone to use. it is necessary to develop new drugs but is almost impossible to charge for also highly speculative with you invest to lenders to the cell structure, you don't know if it leads to nothing, this something in 50 years or next year. either company cannot take that risk. so the government steps since since 1930's to provide the public good so private industry can then attempt to commercialize and create products. . . >> i talked about the case study and it is most widely part of this over last several years and we have some additional properties and we have private industry labs and the tax law was isolated and sympathize and these days the purpose was to allow the technology in

27,000-dollar medicare or medicaid spent while caring for individuals with alzheimer's the national institutes of health spends only $100 on alzheimer's research, $100 on alzheimer's research. fortunately alzheimer's is a bipartisan issue. in 2010 congress unanimously passed the national alzheimer's project. the act mandated the creation of first-ever national alzheimer's plan which was released in may of 2012 with the goal of preventing and treating alzheimer's disease by 2025. the plan now includes important milestones in the timeline to facilitate achieving that goal. however goals of this magnitude changing the trajectory of a national health crisis require significant investments if we hope to realize success. recognizing this we commend congress for their leadership for providing historic increase for alzheimer's in a consolidated appreciations act of 2014. this is an important down payment implementing the national alzheimer's plan so we can reach the goal of effectively treating and preventing alzheimer's by 2025. this critical funding will allow scientists for interviews is research that will r

we created a program for the national institutes of health -- and teaches health them to access and evaluate the information online. the faces of seniors -- conchy is a senior and i am pleased she has come through the storms to be here today, but there are incredible seniors out there and tremendously untapped resources. i would like to cite joe james who is in north carolina. his concern was he wanted to help all the black rural farmers who were leaving their farms because they could not continue to leave on the farm. what he did is create a farmers market where they could sell their produce very you realize that the end of the day they had all this produce joe james is a bioengineer. he learned how to take that excess produce, no matter how small it was, and converted it into biofuel. his next idea was if we can convert it into biofuel -- why can't we have people create ideas for this? the farmers are creating from the seeds and literally the need to start their small businesses or need -- maintain their farm was a capitalization for seed to start this. they now create products for these b

national institutes of health, veterans affairs, indian affairs. everything. they are working so hard and they have accomplished so much. we can talk about the funding isn't there, but that's not them. the people in the trenches care and they are doing work to push this ahead. to your mind, what is driving the focus? is it the realization of what these numbers are going to mean a few years from now? sad realityt is the that we all know someone now. 15 years ago when i started being involved, we said the numbers are going to go up. in anhuman nature that immediate crisis, bird flu gets money like that. in terms of the statistics and the number of people that will die, this is way beyond that. is slow and steady so it is a long time coming. virtually everyone in america has someone in their family or they see it on tv. that is what is fueling it. they are going to their own burden of taking care of a parent or grandparent. people, people in their 50's or 60's getting diagnosed with this disease. this is the other thing that is helping. because we can diagnose ea

it's from the national institute of health it says it can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer taken oncecan cut the risk by 20%, this year upwards of 20,000 women will be diagnosed with the disease, more than 14,000 well will die from it. joying me now is a doctor from new york see. glad to see you. >> you too, john. >> can you tell us how it works. >> it's an exciting develop. it helps with inning flam space that can predispiece you to various diseases, heart disease, cancer, the idea is that maybe by taking aspirin daily you decrease the inflammation and might prevent your risk or decrease your risk of developing cancer, especially ovair i didn't know cancer. >> so i would assume that women are asking the question should i start taking aspirin. >> yeah, they are probably asking that accident but i wouldn't say to do it yet. this is an exciting development. so it's a preliminary study where they pooled previous studies. the problem is there are a lot of side effects with aspirin and you don't want to automatically take it unless we know for sure that it works. so people who take aspirin

ten big drug companies that rarely share their secrets agreed to work together with the national institutes of health. their goal, finding cures for a number of major diseases, including diabetes and alzheimer's. the project will last five years, cost $230 million, and at the end, all the findings will be free for anyone to use. here to help will us understand it all is monica langdon from the wall street journal. has anything like this ever been tried before on this scale? >> no, nothing has been tried on this scale with this many diseases. and with this much collaboration. and the biggest revelation of all is they're going to put all their discoveries out to the public. so the big pharmaceutical companies or the littlest start up up will have access and can compete. >> almost following straight out of the play book of the software model of open source. >> and this is what is unusual. there started to an few more collaborations in the last few years, but nothing of this scale. and this actually took two years to get it done. and it was very difficult. there were a lot of sharp elbows and a lot of hu

but the national institutes of health fixed all that.ow you can 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. of the united states of america... and to the republic for which it stands... one nation, under god... indivisible, with liberty... and justice for all. our disabled veterans pledged to sacrifice life and limb to ensure our way of life. now, they deserve our support. find out how you can help disabled veterans in your community. visit dav.org. >> we like to know what's on your mind, so here's our "speak of the week." >> everyone has their tricks for getting through papers, midterms, and finals, so tell us your best study tip. >> my best study tip would be to give yourself enough time to study before a big test, or something, and to have, like, materials and questions prepared for you to use. >> i always copy my notes over and i study those, but...i try to get a good night's sle

but the national institutes of health fixed all that.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. of the united states of america... and to the republic for which it stands... one nation, under god... indivisible, with liberty... and justice for all. our disabled veterans pledged to sacrifice life and limb to ensure our way of life. now, they deserve our support. find out how you can help disabled veterans in your community. visit dav.org. >> when you think of teens in the spotlight, do you think of performers? and when you think of cheering crowds, do you think of sports? as kristina tells us, maybe you should be thinking about science. >> the second-place winner... >> you can almost feel the tension as the contestants wait to hear the winning names announced. >> from ambler, pennsylvania, and germantown academy, jonah kallenbach. [ applause ] >> this might seem like the oscars, but these

public hunting for local party conventions and this did run pediatric research at the national institute of health. we are talking about everything from cancer, autism, to the rarest genetic disorders. we cannot fix it all. ofely creating a lifetime hope and opportunity for our most vulnerable kids is more important than subsidizing weeklong political pep rallies. can toant to do all we help hard-working americans balance the demands of family it is taking aer child to the doctor or taking care of aging parents. any americans need your flexibility in their jobs. the president talked about this, then we need to fix world place rules from the madman there appeared. i'm glad he raised this issue. it allows workers in the private sector the option of using their orrtime for paid time off calm time that is what they would rather have your government employees re: have this option. why not give either sector workers the same choices? our bill would finally replace restrictions that have been in place since 1938, long before drawn -- don draper's time. let's more must be done for the millions of american

you know we're talking about this what kinds of tests and specific do we need what we need some independent research. institute for. national institutes of healthfor example or independent scientists who want to take this on privately funded we need this private research done the research coming out of the industry it's giving somewhat biased results in favor of the product they're selling no surprise there and we also need long term scientific research done on this we're getting short term studies we're not getting a lot of the long term ones done so you don't think there should be any public funds in that test and so you know if there's an opportunity for that. i think all of these studies put another piece into the puzzle and we can look at the data but i think that one of the most important things that we do need is privately funded research on this because it takes some of the bias out of the whole equation but if you also have privately funded research those private institutions hold the results from the public. well i suppose they could but it would be another piece of the puzzle have any scientist or group started these additional tests

with dr miller to enter greatest scans into a searchable program using a grant from the national institutes of health. are focusing on the imaging of developing. of children and covering every child between basically before you're being born. for this particular basic. of the day of birth. life they currently have about seven thousand brain scans and are adding up to one hundred brains a month to the database the more images collected the better to be had the database to more reliable. uses database to identify diseases you only hear because the more they the more you including the variability of the disease dr houseman's goal is to make the brain called available to the public in three years the software works very similar to facial recognition technology a doctor uploads their patients brain images in the computer searches the database for similar patterns and says the doctor results for possible diagnoses but there's many many things in common with our google search engine for break our ability to search on brain with search engines on face the software takes thousands of images in two hundred fif

if you reconcile those two scientists, the head of the national institute of health is a devout christian. there are billions of people in the world who are devoutly religious. they have to be compatible because those same people embrace science. the exception is you, mr. ham. that's the problem for me. you want us to take your word for what's written in this ancient text to be more compelling than what we see around us. the evidence for a higher power and spirituality is for me separate. i encourage you to take the next minute and address this problem of the fossils, this problem of the ice layers, this problem of the ancient trees, this problem of the ark, i mean really address it. and so then we could move forward but right now i see no incompatibility between religions and science. >> yeah, i actually want to take a minute to address the question. let me just say this, my answer would be god is necessary for science. in fact, you talked about cellphones, yeah i have a cellphone, i love technology. we love technology here in answers and genesis. and i have email. we have millions of th

. ♪ >> according to the national institutes of health, about one out of every 88 children in the u.s.ave autism. when they corrupt, and many find it nearly impossible to get a job so as adults, what do they do? probably contact my next guest. he is trying to change the situation. greg is the cofounder of its ordinary ventures. they are helping small businesses employ people who have autism. thank you for being here. what is autism? >> autism is a mental condition. it really affects the language in the communication skills of an individual. it tends to manifest itself very differently in a wide range of cases. the essence of it is a difficulty in arriving or routing interactions with other people. >> as a child in the united are a variety of educational mandates and programs that may assist parents who have children who have autism, right? >> it is much better today than it was when my son was very young. there are programs for children with autism. programs in the schools. there are quite a lot -- a lot a focus on trying to help children improve and be prepared. >> then it just stops?

of hats and specific. do we need while we did some independent research time and institute for on at nih national institute of health for example or independent scientists who wanna take this on privately funded. we need this kind of research done the research coming out of the industry. it's getting somewhat biased results in favor of the product they're selling. no surprise there and wales in the long term scientific research done on this free in a short term studies were not given a lot of the long term once done so you don't think there should be any funds in the previous test. what is an opportunity for that. i think that i think all of these studies put another piece into the puzzle and can look at the data they think that when the most important things that we do need is privately funded research on this because it takes some of the bias had the whole of creation many of the privately funded research said the spread of petitions called the results of the well i suppose they could but it's a would be another piece of the puzzle. have any scientist or trip started with these additional test anywhere where are w

with dr miller to integrate this teen's into a search of a program using a grant from the national institutes of health. bx focusing on emerging off to the campaign. and since the system of children. and the accompanying as the child that bbc tv before getting boring. these taxes fees or time period of his critique of the city's tax base to get the deals i owe all the difference. up till the completion of eighteen steals life. they currently have about seven thousand brain scans and are adding up to one hundred breeds a month to the database. the more images collected in the batter to be in the database two more reliable and peak and he uses database to identify diseases earlier the cost of more than a down to more he couldn't get the idea being that he offered the seats. or how things go is to make the brink on available to the and every year it's the software works very similar to facial recognition technology. and after uploads their patients brain imaging is in the computer searches the database for similar patterns in both the doctor results for possible diagnoses. there's many many things in comm

i said i'm really not here to argue about whether money to the national institutes of health is more important than money to education grants or money for infrastructure development or any other endeavor that the federal government is involved in. i said because all of these are going to be -- every year faced with less money to fund these programs. now, some of these ought to receive less and some of them ought to be closed, and the waste and fraud ought to be eliminated but nevertheless there are essential functions that need to be funded. and they won't be able to be funded adequately and will continue to shrink as the mandatory spending runs out of control. but to think that of all the revenue, all the tax dollars that come into the treasury, ten years from now will accumulate and be spent 94% of which will be spent on programs that we have no control over, and won't be available for any of the things i mentioned and dozens if not hundreds of more programs, is simply unsustainable. 94%. 6% left to provide for our national security and national defense, our institutes of health, ed

. >> our next washington journal is live from the national institutes of health to look at the researchf the nah -- nih. dr. alan gotto lan guttmacher. and dr. steven katz. journal, live from the national institute of health. at 7:00 a.m. eastern. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow here on c-span. beginning with the brookings institution for him. -- forum. panelists will include ambassadors from lebanon and iraq. at 3:00 p.m., the heritage foundation focuses on political protests in that is where the -- in venezuela. and how the relations may be affected by the expulsion of diplomats. >> this weekend, american history tv debuts its new series, real america. archival films that take you on a journey into america's past. this week, films on d.c. during world war ii. and women workers during the milled very -- the military buildup of the second world war. >> american industry rolled out -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

of congress. help that has been lacking. breathing pure oxygen has been shown to shorten the attacks, but government health plans will not cover it. national institutes of health funded one study. >> three substances... >> hallucinogenic drugs showed some promise. >> when lsd was discovered, we were looking to migraine and cluster treatments. it was in the mix and was shelved for 40 years. >> as substances like marijuana become a main-stream treatment, those suffering from klufter head aches want the law to give the same attention to their pain. >> coming up, storm front. we are tracking extreme weather on the east coast and will have the latest on where it's headed and how bad it will be. plus, putting the weather in a different light. our first person report on the astonishing images. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. we have a lot to cover this half hour, including religious freedom. legalized or bigotry. >> what is the next - what is next for the bill that some say would allow cann sans to discriminate against same-sex couples. >> life and death - an aimish child in hiding to avoid chemotherapy which doctor

drrex cowd is thehi executiveicer of the national institute of mtal health neuropsychiatric sech hpil. one of the interesting issue in personality disorders is whether there are traits that are exaggerated or particularly abnormal that contribute to personality disorders. one of the theories is that serotonin, which is a brain metabolite at apprs to modulate a variety of drives such as aggression or appetitive behavior, uh, may be abnormal in individuals who are prone to loss of behavioral control. interestingly, this is a finding that seems to cut across a variety of diagnostic groups. it's been found in depression in relation to suicidal acts. we found it in our patients with borderline personality disorder. that is, that the individuals who had genuine suicide attempts had lower levels of the serotonin metabolite. it's been found in another study of borderline personality disorder. it's been found in antisocialersonality disorder. in short, it seems to be associated with a behavioral abnormality that cuts across personality disorders. dr. gilligan discusses the possibility of hered

and the national institutes of health have sponsored only one study.cinogenic drugs show some promise. >> when lsd was first discovered, [ inaudible ] was looking for migraine and cluster treatments, so that was in the mix at that point, and then it got shelved for 40 years. >> reporter: but as restricted substances like marijuana become a main stream treatment for other illnesses, these people want the law to give the same attention to their pain. >>> checking the markets, an up and down pay on wall street. right now the dow is in positive territory. >>> there is a coffee shop in seattle that seems more like a tech builders workshop instead. allan reports. >> reporter: it's a place where anyone can walk in and make just about anything, with just about anything, from sewing and knitting machines to laser cutters, and 3-d printers. >> we have parts supplies, snacks, free internet, coffee. >> reporter: it's a place to meet, mingle, and make. it sprung out of matt's idea of what he calls the tool curve. >> at the bottom of the curve we have hammers and na

a study out of ucla and the national institute of health says that testosterone treatments could double the risk in men over 65 and men with heart disease as young as 40. increasing prescriptions have five fold, sold more than viagra in 2012. so are testosterone supplements safe to use or will the fda have to step in and put new rules on the use of these increasingly popular medications? let's bring in dr. malica marler. graigreat to have you on the sh. >> thanks for having me antonio. >> what are the symptoms of low testosterone or low-t as it has been brand he in recent years? >> so men typically say they have decreased libido, problems with low energy, depressed mood. those tend to be the symptoms that we hear most commonly. >> and what is the difference between a natural decline in testosterone, aging or a serious million condition that really needs treatment? >> we know that as men age testosterone levels go down. in fact more than a third of men over the age of 45 have low testosterone. that doesn't mean that all those men need to be treat. but we know that testosterone levels dec

and so in december, the white house and the national institutes of health endorsed a full-fledged research program towards finding a cure. >> we're going to redirect $100 million into this project to develop a new generation of therapies. >> reporter: for mccune and his team, the key task today is finding the virus. he knows that anti-retroviral drugs keep the patient alive, and kill much of the h.i.v.. but invariably some virus remains hidden and causes the patients health to decline. >> what we don't know is where in the human body it lives. >> reporter: researchers in mccunes labs and elsewhere study tissue taken from clinical subjects to look at places they think the virus may be hiding. >> it's often organs, organs like the intestinal track, the spleen, the liver, the brain and elsewhere. we want to know which cells it lives in, whether it be dormant or latent, or actively replicating or spreading. some drugs for instance go to the spleen very easily but don't go to the brain. maybe we need two or three drugs to go to two or three different patterns. >> reporter: mccunes basic researc

if we work together from government organizations like the national institutes of health to hospitals and cancer treatment facilities in my home state of pennsylvania, to passing bipartisan legislation, like the gabrielle miller kids first research act, we can make this world cancer day a success and put an end to cancer in the not-so-distant future. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. higgins, for five minutes. mr. higgins: i join with my colleague from pennsylvania in recognizing that today, february 4, is world cancer day. a day in which we raise awareness of the impacts of cancer worldwide and join forces to work together to find a cure. if america does not lead the world in cancer research, there is no leadership in cancer remp in the world. a newly released report from the american cancer society says that the death rate from cancer has decreased by 20% over the past two decades. 30 years ago, less than 50% of those who were diagnosed with cancer li

as it may, they know that 7 of the 17 were at the panel before yours which included the national institute of healths often said, and i think it's true, sparsely attended hearings are not that unusual. 7 did not get back to us but 11 did. you know mark kirk was with the astronaut and also the ceo of a planetarium. one was at a funeral. five others say they were meeting with constituents and two were chairing their own committee hearings. i don't know if that reassures you at all but that's what they were doing. >> well, in a way it more speaks to how like the government works in general and my lack of knowledge of it but at the same time, i'm equally disappointed that this whole system is set up to hear the personal pleas of people and they are not there to hear it. they read a transcript of it later or something like that. and the whole point of it just seems a little bit lost, i guess. someone telling you after the fact, oh, and a guy was there and he said how upset he was about the fact that he was diagnosed with this disease and it was very touching. but, yeah, i feel like they were there and it

according to the national institute of mental health, one in five women struggle with an eating disorderrdered eating. and according to the international journal of eating disorders, only one in ten men and women with eating disorders actually received treatment. here in the studio with us right now is rebecca cooper. she has written a book called "diets don't work." she's also founded rebecca's house, eating disorders and treatment program. and i have to say i agree, diets don't work. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> so tell me how you came up with the idea for the book. i think that you probably had an eating disorder yourself? >> yes. after years of recovery, i actually started working with people who had problems with -- at first it was more like yo-yo dieting and i realized that the devastation that's caused by the failed diets wias having a big impact on people's self-esteem, along with setting them up to get into disordered eating. i found out too that dieting actually changes the brain chemistry and some people progress into eating disorders. >> when did you recognize this in yourse

if you reconcile those two, scientists, the head of the national institute of health is a devout christian. there are billions of people in the world who are devoutly religious. they have to be compatible because those same people embrace science. the exception is you, mr. ham. that's the problem for me. you want us to take your word for what's written in this ancient text to be more compelling than what we see around us. the evidence for a higher power and spirituality is for me separate. i encourage you to take the next minute and address this problem of the fossils, this problem of the ice layers, this problem of the ancient trees, this problem of the ark, i mean really address it. and so then we could move forward but right now i see no incompatibility between religions and science. >> yeah, i actually want to take a minute to address the question. let me just say this, my answer would be god is necessary for science. in fact, you talked about cellphones, yeah i have a cellphone, i love technology. we love technology here in answers and genesis. and i have email. we have millions of th

grant for seniors erin technology that they continue to deliver but then we partnered with national institutes of health putting all health care information of wind and they said the greatest concern is seniors cannot access because they do not know how to use the technology. so we created a program that trains seniors how to use a technology and how to evaluate the information they find online. and i am a senior but there are incredible seniors out there with the untapped resources like joe in north carolina his concern was to help all black rural farmers leading arms because they cannot continue to live on the farms of the first created a farmers' market to sell produce then realized they had all this produce lefty is a bioengineered so he turned that excess produce to turn into biofuel. then why can't we have people create products for this? now they are creating from the seed then needed to start their small businesses to maintain the form -- a farm so now they create forms for the biofuel converter. it is a skewed to business -- a huge business also called the greening of black america is an extrao

but then we also partnered with the national institute instituth because the national institutes of health was putting all of their healthcare information online and the greatest concern is seniors that need this information cannot access it because they do not know how to use the technology. so we created a partnership called cyber health which trains seniors how to access information and even a ua the information they find online. i am so pleased she is here today and has come up through the storm to join us and i am a senior, but there are an incredible seniors out there and as i say tremendously untapped resources. joe is a north carolina and his concern was he wanted to help all of the farmers leaving their farms because they could not continue to live on the farm and what he did was create a farmers market where they could sell their produce and then he realized at the end of the day they had all this produce left. he learned how to take that produce no matter how small it was and turned it and converted it into biofuel. his next idea is if we can convert it into biofuel, why can't w

. >> our next washington journal is live from the national institutes of health to look at the research of the nih. we will talk with landis, the director of the institute of disorders, dr. gary gibbons of the national heart and blood institute, and stephen cap, the head of the institute of arthritis and skin diseases. washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern. of america is in this country we have the ability to write the script of our own life. we are in a sense in the driving seat of our own future, and our biggest decisions in life are made by us. creates this sense of possibility, and out of that, you can become an activist, a community organizer. in this sense, what are you doing? you are living off the great capitalist explosion of wealth. >> so many strongmen it is hard to know where to begin. nobody said america is the most terrible place, but there are a couple of assertions you have to take on faith that are astonishing. what is the idea that america's great invention was wealth creation. what about the theft of the entire continent? that was a theft. 90% -- 90% ofean the res

members heard from francis collins, the head of the national institute of health who said federal investmentn comparison to how much the disease costs the country. a second panel included actor said revenue testified about his brother-in-law's struggle with the disease. this is two hours. >> today's hearing is th

we are put about 1.1% of our national funding for the national institutes of health into pain research. that's pitful, a fraction of what other diseases get. chronic pain is a disease. we could start there. patients could start by realising that their problem is not all in their head as they are told, and keep going until you find a doctor that believes your pain. >> you mentioned this is bigger than cancer and heart diseases. why has the government allocated so little money to the problem. >> they've avoided it because there's a stigma to pain. until recently no one knew how big the pain problem was. a couple of years ago congress gave a bunch of money to the institute of medicine to study the problem. the report showed that there are 100 million americans in pain. unfortunately congress did nothing with the report, and they should have, because it's a well written document. it proves the case, and i think we need to focus more on that, starting in congress. >> thank you so much. >> judy foreman, journalist and author of "a nation in pain", joining us from boston. >> they are pawns in

. >> so that's the national institutes of health, nih, national cancer institute, medicine speed all that category, yes. >> infrastructure and defense as well? >> defense, discretion spending is also on track have also lower share of the economy than it's been at any point in the last 50 years. and again how those cutbacks are allocated between the research done by the defense department in the things the defense department something that congress we did decide in future appropriation bills. >> a lot of folks are believed that this question has been replaced here in the short term for a couple of years. and they tend to focus on the crisis that is right in front of them, but the challenge of looking ahead in the next decade is going to be how we maintain these investments in what makes america great in education and research and development, and infrastructure. and that's why i do think it's important for us to work together as we learned that the aging population is going to be a challenge, a fundamental budget jumped into my colleague, mr. gore, i would agree to work with you -- mr

if you reconcile those two the scientists, the head of the national institutes of health is a devout christian. there are billions of people in the world who are devoutly religious. they have to be compatible because they are the same people that embrace science. the exception is you mr. ham. that's the problem for me. you want us to take your word for what is written in this ancient text to be more compelling than what we see around us. the evidence for a higher power and spirituality is for me separate. i encourage you to take the met met -- and next minute and address this problem of the fossils this problem of the ice layers in this problem of ancient trees. the problem of the art, i mean really address it and then we can look forward that right now i see see no incompatibility -- and compel ability between religion and science. >> i want to take a minute to address the question. let me say this. my answer would be god is necessary to science. you tell us about cell phones. i have a cell phone. we have technology and i have had millions of them while i've in speaking appearance sa

. >> so that's the national institutes of health, nih, national cancer institute, medicine speed all in that category, yes. >> infrastructure and defense as well? >> defense, discretion spending is also on track have also lower share of the economy than it's been at any point in the last 50 years. and again how those cutbacks are allocated between the research done by the defense department in the things the defense department something that congress we did decide in future appropriation bills. >> a lot of folks are believed that this question has been replaced here in the short term for a couple of years. and they tend to focus on the crisis that is right in front of them, but the challenge of looking ahead in the next decade is going to be how we maintain these investments in what makes america great in education and research and development, and infrastructure. and that's why i do think it's important for us to work together as we learned that the aging population is going to be a challenge, a fundamental budget jumped into my colleague, mr. gore, i would agree to work with you --