rodgers, you talked about the role that nih has with the fda. can you talk about how nih can be helpful in moving the process forward? >> well senator, in addition to working on a collaborative and coordinating basis, some of the vital research that dr. zimliki is mentioning is something that we see as our major contribution in moving the process forward. and making it a reliable and practical step. just recently, as i mentioned, for example and they closed loop system not only using insulin but to try to more closely replicate what the pancreas does and scientists who we funded used to hormones, both insulin and a counter regulatory hormone look at gone to see whether one could be more precise blip -- let glucose control over time but again these are done sort of in a clinical setting, ultimately for this to be effective in a row the real world. we have to try to replicate and that is why this more recent study is actually looking at two different meal scenarios particularly at night. that would be a critical step and we could use this closed l

rodgers, you talked about the role that nih has with the fda. can you talk about how nih can be helpful in moving the process forward? >> well senator, in addition to working on a collaborative and coordinating basis, some of the vital research that dr. zimliki is mentioning is something that we see as our major contribution in moving the process forward. and making it a reliable and practical step. just recently, as i mentioned, for example and they closed loop system not only using insulin but to try to more closely replicate what the pancreas does and scientists who we funded used to hormones, both insulin and a counter regulatory hormone look at gone to see whether one could be more precise blip -- let glucose control over time but again these are done sort of in a clinical setting, ultimately for this to be effective in a row the real world. we have to try to replicate and that is why this more recent study is actually looking at two different meal scenarios particularly at night. that would be a critical step and we could use this closed l

collins, head of nih. funding nih, and the republicans in real dollar terms have let it slip.art of this is adequate funding for nih and getting new drugs, but we need -- those are patented drugs. we have to make sure that generics are more and more used. but in addition to that -- and that is a lot of money -- if we did the same thing as va did and medicaid did, through medicare, we would save many, many tens of billions. but we would have to get ahold of the fee-for-service system. we are paying not by results, but by volume. by volume. and so if you go in and you see five doctors in the hospital, you could see five of the same specialty, and you will get a bill from five of them. so i am not blaming the physicians, but more more, as i talk to them, i think they realize that we need to move away from fee for service. and the only way to do that, the main way to do that is through reforms through medicare, where we begin to control the hospitial costs, and i remember the first couple of years, what a hullabaloo that caused, but it helped. >> but should there be a more concret

rodgers, you talked about the role that nih has with the fda. can you talk about how nih can be helpful in moving the process forward? >> well senator, in addition to working on a collaborative and coordinating basis, some of the vital research that dr. zimliki is mentioning is something that we see as our major contribution in moving the process forward. and making it a reliable and practical step. just recently, as i mentioned, for example and they closed loop system not only using insulin but to try to more closely replicate what the pancreas does and scientists who we funded used to hormones, both insulin and a counter regulatory hormone look at gone to see whether one could be more precise blip -- let glucose control over time but again these are done sort of in a clinical setting, ultimately for this to be effective in a row the real world. we have to try to replicate and that is why this more recent study is actually looking at two different meal scenarios particularly at night. that would be a critical step and we could use this closed l

so part of this is adequate funding for nih, and getting new drugs. so those are patented drugs. and we need to be sure that generics are more and more used. and in addition to that, and that's a lot of money. if we did the same as v.a. did through medicare, it would save many billions. we are paying not by results but by volume. by volume. and so if you go in and you see five doctors in a hospital, you can see five of the same speciality and you will get a bill from five of them. and so -- i am not blaming the physicians, but more and more as i talk to them, i think they realize that we need to move away from fee for service. and the only way to do that, the main way to do that is through reforms, through medicare. like we begin to control hospital costs. and i remember the first couple of times i was in, and what a problem that caused but it helped to work. >> do you feel there should be a more concrete plan, that the democrats don't have a house budget. >> but we did have a house budget. they didn't like it. i betcha that regardless of what you could say, and if you turn out t

regards to nih, we were spending $10 #.5 million.now we're spending in 2010, $160 million, so, you know, when we chronical, prioritize, the money will follow, and hopefully the good work that that money buys will make a difference in the lives of people, and i do have one final question. i read a book called "dancing with max" with emily colson. i invited her up, and she talked to the members of the autism caucus, and here was a case, and perhaps, mr. mccool, you want to speak to this as well. we are still focused on early intervention and what do we do with the young people, help them have a productive life and help the suffering of the heroic parents faced with severely autistic children, a very, very challenging life, and i'm wondering with the aging out issue in the book, emily tells the story of how her husband left by the time max was 9, she had had it, but then through the grace of god and it really was through prayer and a lot of help of people around her, she got through it, and now max is approaching adulthood, and the impo

researchers at nih are testing whether ulultimately can deliver cancer treatment drugs. the patient is incorrected with a chemo filled particle tracked in the blood stream. when it reaches a tumor, heath generated from ultrasound waves pops the particle, releasing the drug. >> we're sparing normal tissue from the effects of chemotherapy. >> focused ultrasound island making a difference. >> it was life altering, life changing. i'm trying not to cry. >> reporter: 6 months after treatment she's looking forward to the future and the family she may some day have. made possible with waves of sound. cbs news. bethesda, maryland. >> >> mitchell: scientists have identified a trio of genes linked to migraine headaches. people have a 10-15% greater risk with the gene. it's not known what causes them but inheritance is believed to play a significant role. 3 years after losing his sight, mr. architect is designing with brail blue prints. that story is next. well as the. do not take vesicare. vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be serious. if you experience swelling of the

and he was a part of the experimental treatment at the nih that he is living today, that he is in this audience. johnston, d want to stand up? [applause] justin, dr. fauci, has gone on to save many as you have. he's in the medical field treating individuals with hiv/aids. during those days of his treatment in the hospital i was the mother to many young men whose partners rejected them whose parents did not know, and by thank all of you for the tremendous work you have done, and especially for my wonderful son. [applause] >> good morning everyone. i'm a deputy editor at pulp magazine and happen to be a person with aids, hiv, not aids yet. as a person living with hiv, i've always been helpful for the cure. i've been waiting for 30 years. all i hear a lot of good news and i would like to hear how hopeful you are. >> vary. [applause] [laughter] >> how much chance to be had for a cure in the near term? >> when you talk about a cure in the stage of scientific discovery to even determine if that is feasible, and we are encouraging by requests for application and putting founding into differen

regards to nih, we were spending $10 #.5 million.now we're spending in 2010, $160 million, so, you know, when we chronical, prioritize, the money will follow, and hopefully the good work that that money buys will make a difference in the lives of people, and i do have one final question. i read a book called "dancing with max" with emily colson. i invited her up, and she talked to the members of the autism caucus, and here was a case, and perhaps, mr. mccool, you want to speak to this as well. we are still focused on early intervention and what do we do with the young people, help them have a productive life and help the suffering of the heroic parents faced with severely autistic children, a very, very challenging life, and i'm wondering with the aging out issue in the book, emily tells the story of how her husband left by the time max was 9, she had had it, but then through the grace of god and it really was through prayer and a lot of help of people around her, she got through it, and now max is approaching adulthood, and the impo

by comparison, nih, our crown jewel in public sector life sciences has been 10,000 ph.d.entists. to put it in perspective, this is a country the size of long island, you know, chicago, throwing their hat into the ring and saying they're going to be a global leader in innovation and life sciences. >> asian countries like singapore aren't the only nations with an eye toward innovation, kao says, pointing also to scandinavia. >> finland has a strategy, a fabric of financiers of innovation, both private and public sector. they have an innovation manager for the city of helsinki. it's at the met toll tan level as well. in sweden, if you want to know who runs innovation in sweden, you look in the phone book and there's a vinnova and a person's name as director and you can call them up and say, i yes, have i 300 people at vinnova and we weave together a national narrative for innovation. i'm sorry to say that at the moment in the u.s. government, you try find the name of the person who's responsible for innovation, there's no name and no phone number. >> our government's lack of

it's the money that goes to the nih, the government money that is for basic research that ends up producinghe big bangs, the enormous leaps forward. in all these cases it's not that i'm arguing a private sector is not amaze -- much of the innovation is going to come from the private sector. historically, at least, the shadow behind that private sector has been government policy. >> basic research. you mean not something that necessarily has a commercial end result, it's research to discover. >> precisely. it's research to think big. if you think about energy policy, right now we need a lot of basic research in energy. tinkering on the margins, getting a slightly better wind turbine, getting a slightly better solar panel is not the key. the key here is we've got to figure out what's going to allow us to consume massive amounts of energy at incredibly low prices. no one has come up with that yet. that's what basic research can do. >> fareed zsa zsa car yeah, a special this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern called "american dream: how to innovate." fareed, thank you. >>> if you know me or watch me o

it requires companies and the nih to work closely together. we're doing a good job, but we can do better, i think. host: you are one with -- one with dr. richard insel and scott whitaker. guest: my husband has type 1 diabetes, and it is a strain on us. my question basically is, with health care reform and have a thing like that -- and everything like that, i don't understand why more people are not going for us to have universal health care. the costs with diabetes, the cost -- i have a child with a disability, the middle of medications -- mental health meditations. all that is totally outrageous. i know your basic subject today is diabetes. i have a medical question. i know they have been haile -- they have inhaled insulin. how is that research going and is it on the market now? guest: it is not on the market at this moment is still in research, and we have to use insulin installed medically. host: next call. caller: about 15 years ago i cannot my daughter had type 1 diabetes for -- got -- i found out my daughter has type 1 diabetes. when the

it means nih, pell grants, the epa, sec, it means all the things we do care about and make ourselves competitive for the future. so the politics of the moment have led us to keep separate sacrosanct the areas of spending but they are important. i'm the last person to say let's destroy the social safety net. just the opposite. but we are destroying our investment in the future. last question. i've given you everything i can. >> perfect segue. "the washington post" argued president obama is ideologically the equivalent of an early 1990's moderate republican. do you think that's accurate, and do you think there is a way that progressives can fully lay out a more coherent financial world view? >> that's harsh on him, calling anybody republican, kind of mean. [laughter] you know, but there's an interesting point buried in that statement. there is another spectacular book you should read by matt miller called the 2% solution. in the sort of early parts of that book, he goes through -- matt miller is also a writer for "the washington post" and writes another book the tyranny of dead ideas t

one, we have not gotten commitment from him that he would appoint pro-life attorney general, hhs, and nih executive appointments. so that's key and that's one appointment of disagreement in that situation. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us. you devoted your entire career to pushing this important issue. we will continue to watch. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> when we come back, who is jon huntsman, a mormon, a moderate, a man on a motorcycle. stay with us. and a choice. take advil now... and maybe up to 4 in a day. or, choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. smart move. ♪ matter which position i am in i wake up feeling good. it fits you so perfectly... it fits you. you wake up and you're revived and rejuvenated. it's just like wow! tempur-pedic the most highly recommended bed in america. tempur-pedic is rated #1 in comfort. sleep satisfaction. and back support. it fits the curvature of your body but you don't sink in and it is firm. proprietary tempur material suppresses motion transfer. this means that when you get in or out of bed, you won't disturb your

so i think it's also calling upon us to increase the nih research business so that we can find a cure because, ultimately, we can't balance the budget if we have a problem like this that is on the horizon. thank you, mr. chairman, so much. >> gentleman's time has expired and, actually, that concludes today's hearing. i remind members they have ten business day toss submit questions for the record -- days to submit questions for the record, and i ask the

it requires companies and the nih to work closely together. we're doing a good job, but we can do better, i think. host: you are one with -- one with dr. richard insel and scott whitaker. guest: my husband has type 1 diabetes, and it is a strain on us. my question basically is, with health care reform and have a thing like that -- and everything like that, i don't understand why more people are not going for us to have universal health care. the costs with diabetes, the cost -- i have a child with a disability, the middle of medications -- mental health meditations. all that is totally outrageous. i know your basic subject today is diabetes. i have a medical question. i know they have been haile -- they have inhaled insulin. how is that research going and is it on the market now? guest: it is not on the market at this moment is still in research, and we have to use insulin installed medically. host: next call. caller: about 15 years ago i cannot my daughter had type 1 diabetes for -- got -- i found out my daughter has type 1 diabetes. when the

the development of the artificial pancreas, and i will continue to support funding for research at nih which gives the chance for better detection and treatment and hope for a cure. all the more reason i am so pleased to see the children here every two years. they remind my colleagues and me about the struggle of living with type 1 diabetes and the importance of supporting diabetes research. and i would like to extend a special thanks to aaron, a child away from honolulu with his mom to meet with me today. if you are sitting here please just hold your hand. there you go. yes, thank you, aaron, from coming of the way from hawaii. i look forward to continuing to work with all of you to improve the lives of individuals with diabetes. glad to be with you and joining you in this. think you very much. thank you, senator. [applause] senator brown? >> thank you, madame chair, mr. chair good to see a lot of the kids here and their families coming out and supporting i had the honor of having to have met before young people from massachusetts jackson savage, john thune deals and joshua fish who i

i think she got like a--she didn't get a lot from the ni--the n--nih, something like a quarter million, but she got money from merck, she got mo--money from the british. she got a bunch of money. c-span: and all along, jeffrey taubenberger's already discovered... >> guest: well, but it wouldn't hurt to have some more samples. i mean, it's not like it's--it's--there's anything wrong with getting some more--but-but she didn't know about johan hultin when she was doing it, and taubenberger tried to tell her, he said, that they had three samples. and she--at first, she said, 'well, his samples from the warehouse didn't count, because they were--they were soaked in formaldehyde and maybe something happened to the virus. what you need are some frozen samples,' so he tried to say that they had a frozen sample. and she doesn't think that she quite understood what he was trying to tell her, but she wanted to go ahead anyway. and she did go ahead. c-span: there's one little ingredient--i'm not sure of the timing on this be--because we haven't talked about it. johan hultin went back to alaska. >>

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children's health act of 2000, which also established the centers for excellence in autism, research in nih and created the interagency autism coordinating committee. to continue to monitor implementation of these new federal implementation programs i established in 2001 along with my colleague mike toil the congressional autism caucus to raise awareness of autism and provide a forum for advocacy within congress. the combating autism act of 2006 reauthorized the autism programs created by the children's health act but also expanded the act calling for research into possible environmental causes of autism and creating and, quote, autism education, early detection and intervention program to improve early screening diagnosis, interventions and treatment for asd's. just last week, i introduced along with mike a package of free comprehensive autism bills the combating autism act of 005 which will ensure continuation of the important federal autism programs for education, early detection, surveillance and search of the national asd act makes the hhs secretary the head of the national autism effo

going on throughout the country and the world, supported by a number of groups, but particularly the nih. host: this letter as how we're doing on keeping out of 84 -- blood out of transfusions and therapy? >> that is prettguest: that is h settled. the blood supply is really quite safe. the chances of getting an infection from a blood transfusion is vanishingly small. host: harlem, new york. steve on the democrat line. caller: i do research also. i am going to be in dc next week because of the aids clinical trial. my question is you said something about the ccr5. the researchers looking at that is not to the bone marrow but the procedure to try to eradicate it. they're also looking at the sleeping cells. i guess they're trying to stir the sleeping sells better in the body, to wake them up so that and try-retro by rolls -- so retro viralsti- will eliminate them. guest: what the calller is referring to is the lately- infected pool. he is using the terminology sleeping cells. it is where the cells are infected but they are not actively making virus, so they are late and. it is very difficult

going on throughout the country and the world, supported by a number of groups, but particularly the nihst: this letter as how we're doing on keeping out of 84 -- blood out of transfusions and therapy? >> that is prettguest: that is h settled. the blood supply is really quite safe. the chances of getting an infection from a blood transfusion is vanishingly small. host: harlem, new york. steve on the democrat line. caller: i do research also. i am going to be in dc next week because of the aids clinical trial. my question is you said something about the ccr5. the researchers looking at that is not to the bone marrow but the procedure to try to eradicate it. they're also looking at the sleeping cells. i guess they're trying to stir the sleeping sells better in the body, to wake them up so that and try-retro by rolls -- so retro viralsti- will eliminate them. guest: what the calller is referring to is the lately- infected pool. he is using the terminology sleeping cells. it is where the cells are infected but they are not actively making virus, so they are late and. it is very difficult to

guest: whether it is through the nih for the cdc, certainly we have other arturs -- arbiters.these entities have scientists on board who are looking at the data and evaluating the science to give us the best sense of what the research suggests we should do. and those guidelines have influenced the standards that were sold -- set forth in the healthy, hungry free kids -- healthy, under free kids campaign. and that actually did give kids the ability to define -- and did give them the ability to define what the standards are in the schools. and now policymakers want to roll back the ability to afford children access to help the food based on what is acceptable sense right now. -- acceptable science right now. we need to understand the healthy kids certainly means a healthy and productive society and are ultimately means less cost to the state in the form of reduced costs to medicare and medicaid. we cannot cut off our noses to spite our faces. we need to invest in jabr and while they are young so they can grow up to be healthy, productive adults with fewer medical costs that soci

going on throughout the country and the world, supported by a number of groups, but particularly the nih. host: this letter as how we're doing on keeping out of 84 -- blood out of transfusions and therapy? >> that is prettguest: that is h settled. the blood supply is really quite safe. the chances of getting an infection from a blood transfusion is vanishingly small. host: harlem, new york. steve on the democrat line. caller: i do research also. i am going to be in dc next week because of the aids clinical trial. my question is you said something about the ccr5. the researchers looking at that is not to the bone marrow but the procedure to try to eradicate it. they're also looking at the sleeping cells. i guess they're trying to stir the sleeping sells better in the body, to wake them up so that and try-retro by rolls -- so retro viralsti- will eliminate them. guest: what the calller is referring to is the lately- infected pool. he is using the terminology sleeping cells. it is where the cells are infected but they are not actively making virus, so they are late and. it is very difficult

guest: whether it is through the nih for the cdc, certainly we have other arturs -- arbiters. all of these entities have scientists on board who are looking at the data and evaluating the science to give us the best sense of what the research suggests we should do. and those guidelines have influenced the standards that were sold -- set forth in the healthy, hungry free kids -- healthy, under free kids campaign. and that actually did give kids the ability to define -- and did give them the ability to define what the standards are in the schools. and now policymakers want to roll back the ability to afford children access to help the food based on what is acceptable sense right now. -- acceptable science right now. we need to understand the healthy kids certainly means a healthy and productive society and are ultimately means less cost to the state in the form of reduced costs to medicare and medicaid. we cannot cut off our noses to spite our faces. we need to invest in jabr and while they are young so they can grow up to be healthy, productive adults with fewer medical costs t