researchers at northwestern university reviewed a number of studies and found little evidence that this was beneficial. they did have some improvements when their overall by it was beneficial. going back to work after having a baby can be stressful enough but for some mothers, finding a place to pump can also be a hardship. the affordable health care act provides for women having a mummy room -- mommy room. >> with my milk supply, i have to pump relatively frequently. >> she is a newborn mother and the thought of telling a new employer of her needs terrifies her. >> i like this job. i don't want to tell them right afterwards that i need something. >> she paid at the physical and emotional price like so many other moms. >> things like pumping in the car. >> the u.s. department of labor is cracking down on that challenge for working mothers. the law requires the companies of more than 50 workers to provide a private room and enough time for breast-feeding mothers to pump. >> we are standing in a mother's room right now. you don't need a lot of space. this is very generous. we actually hav

you'll get to hear her live right here.morning, researchers northwestern university studied 50 yearsdata covering 250,000 americans. they determined that the earlier you focus on your heart health the better. nbc's chief science correspondent robert bazell has the story. >> reporter: at age 67, jim richardson is a typical patient who gets regular check-ups of his heart. because of a busy family and work life, he didn't begin the check-ups until he was well into his 50s. >> about ten years ago my internist listening to stuff and taking blood tests put me on cholesterol medication and blood pressure medication. >> reporter: but a groundbreaking new study from northwestern university shows how critical it is to start paying attention to heart health much earlier. almost everyone knows that smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are the major risk factors for heart disease. but the study revealed how extremely important they are, even at a relatively young age. for example, a 45-year-old man who has none of the risk factors has only a 1.7% lifetime chance of having a

this was really encouraging new research from northwestern university and new checklist, saying you canyour health around, at middle age, changing your body's road map for years to come. here's abc's tanya rivera tonight. >> hi, how are you doing today? >> reporter: michael is like millions of americans who reach their 40s and surprise to find themselves at risk for heart disease. >> i have a beautiful italian wife who is a wonderful cook. a little bit, pound here, two pounds here. i was 240 pounds, i had elevated cholesterol. >> reporter: a new study shows a simple checklist can be a strong predict ever your heart's health. reaching middle age without having developing risk factor, meaning you won't have a heart attack or stroke. do you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol. are you a smoker? do you have diabetes? if you are middle age with none of these risk factor, you almost no chance of heart attack or stroke. one risk factor your chance jumps to 30%, two or more your risk jumps to 50%. >> good news about this research, even though it's somewhat of a crystal ball. we need to k

northwestern memorial hospital in chicago and is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at northwestern universityfeinberg school of medicine. >> the second trimester until 24 weeks' gestation is a time of rapid growth, where the organs grow and evolve into the developing functions that they are supposed to develop. at 24 weeks' gestation is when most people consider the third trimester beginning. and that's the time when maturation really takes place of all the organ systems to the point where a baby can function on the outside of the mother. so when a baby is born in the third trimester prematurely, you frequently will have situations of immature function of the organs. >> mcfarland: new yorker rikisha hughes-burke knows firsthand about the uphill battle preterm babies face. her eldest son, a.j., was born just as she began her third trimester. >> i delivered by c-section. my son was 23 weeks and 5 days. and he weighed 1 pound, 5 ounces, 12 inches long. and it was a rough road for him. >> mcfarland: baby a.j. spent four months in the neonatal intensive care unit, also known as the nicu. >> he was

march of two thousand and nine now this is a study done by the university of chicago and northwestern university they also have a specific question they asked those they surveyed and they said predicting the stock market very few investors if any can consistently make accurate predictions about whether the price of an individual stock will rise or fall on a given day economist sixty four percent strongly agreed that you can't predict markets where americans overall fifty four percent agreed that you can't predict markets that means forty six percent of americans believe that you can magically predict where markets will go and so max does that explain to you why they might be losing money to brokers them and bankers well there's two points there the first point is one of the financial illiteracy now the fact is that rising interest rates would benefit consumers benefit the economy benefit wage earners benefit retirees benefit competition look at the comments underneath this video as it's playing on the internet right now read the comments below this video that you're watching right now look at al

. >> reporter: a ground-breaking new study from northwestern university shows how critical it is to starting attention to heart health much earlier. almost everyone knows smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are the major risk factors for heart disease. the study revealed how extremely important they are, even at a relatively young age. for example, a 45-year-old man who has none of the risk factors has only a 1.7% lifetime chance of having a heart attack. if he has two or more risk factors, that number jumps to 42%. for a 45-year-old woman, the numbers are 1.6% with no risk factors, and 21.5% with two or more. >> this study is so important because it tells us even healthy appearing young individuals have a substantial lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease if these risk factors are present. >> reporter: the study shows it is important to stay healthy. it found having no risk factors lowered danger substantiality at ages 55, 65, and 75 as well. but the biggest surprise was the great gauge for 45-year-olds. >> treatment started in the 40s can major a huge differenc

studies established a genetic link to all this and however they admit environmental influence northwestern universitychers great deal of weight to determining about that blood disorders like autism low birthweight triple the chance for autism. hospital bacteria doctors and nurses changing their clothes virginia commonwealth university researchers say scrubs of the biggest and victoria carriers not only reduce bacteria but limit the spread of bacteria in patients. antibiotic resistant bacteria a major problem and hospitals across the country clothing with germ fighting compounds embedded help battle that your eyes may carry strong bacteria fighters tears drop a disease fighting protein tiny transistor attached to powerful proteins to see how they work they found it salty drops have the jobs that to a party walls of bacteria breaking down ability to multiplied and in fact. biologists believe the protein itself is critical process of tracking might also help them track cancer cells in the body. back to you >> four-8 in. had our way? when will it start falling? who will get hit the hardest forecast is ne

. >> reporter: a ground-breaking news study from northwestern university shows how critical it is totart paying attention to heart health much earlier. almost everyone knows that smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes are the major risk factors for heart disease, but a study revealed how extremely important they are. even at a relatively young age. for example, a 45-year-old man who has none of the risk factors has a 1.7% lifetime chance of having a heart attack. if he has two or more risk factors that number sdwrumps to 42%. for a 45-year-old woman the numbers are 1.6% with no risk factor and 21 poen 5% with two already or more. >> the study is so important because it tells us that even healthy-appearing young individuals have a substantial lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease if these risk factors are present. >> the study shows it is important to stay healthy. it found having no risk factors lowered dangers substantially at ages 65, 55, and 75 as well. the biggest surprise was the danger if they are 4 a-year-olds. >> it can make a huge difference in their

researcher at northwestern university say children with adhd should stick to the diets that restrict sugar, artificial dyes and allergens. the study says children with adhd should avoid fast foods, processed meats, high-fat dairy foods, and soft drink. >>> nbc 4's health and fitness expo is just around the corner. this year's event is being held january 14 and 15. that's this weekend at the walter e. washington convention center in northwest washington. admission is free. doors will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. both days. angie and i will be among those you can speak to on saturday. tom and aaron will be there on sunday. free health screenings, cooking demonstration, exercises, fun for the whole family. >> you're doing a cooking demonstration, right? >> i'm doing one on saturday morning. we're cooking -- we'll make a soup, a little salad. and a sorbet. healthy eating ideas for the new year. >> can i get a steak if economic on saturday? >> if you play -- if i come on sntd. >> if you play your cards right, i'll ask the chef. i'm not cooking, i'm helping the process. >>> the next

in history at northwestern university at government expense. >> rose: it's an interesting aspect of your life that in 1972 you let yourself be perceived-- or you didn't fight it hard enough-- and they defined you as soft on crime and soft on defense. neither were true. >> well, it's ridiculous. i'm an american patriot i fought for this country and risked my life in world war ii. i'd do it again if the circumstances were the same. but i don't know how the republicans get on this kick that democrats are soft and crime and soft on defense. i've always been for a strong defense, but i don't believe in wasting money defense. right nowe have a $700 billion military bi. and nobody's threatenings. can you think of a country that wants go to war with the united states? i can't. >> rose: leon panetta, a good democrat, says that... now secretary of defense says if in fact the sequestration takes place-- a word that they use coming out of the supercommiee-- that it will affect the security of the country. that severe a defense cut. >> well, those defense secretaries always have to play scared and ta

as chief investment officer and he was head of kraft investments from tough university and northwestern university and kellogg school of management and financial analyst and member of the new york society of security analysts. i am privileged to welcome you and thank you for your testimony. i yield back. >> thank you, congresswoman hayworth for that kind introduction. my name is scott evans. i am executive vice presidents of asset management division. are appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about some of the effects of the volcker will on the insurance industry. specifically as relates to our ability to invest in certain financial vehicles. please allow me to tell you a little bit about dia c r e f, we have not-for-profit heritage serving 3.7 million americans in the academic research and cultural fields. we are and insurance company managing $64 billion in assets providing $10 billion a year in retirement income to teachers, nurses, campus service personnel and others in the not for profit sector. in order to provide our participants, clients with a comprehensive set of financial solutio

because the statute of limitations has still not expired on some of that behavior at northwestern universitytewart took it from me. i can't hand it from. he has to offer to take it. >> the other night on tv he decides to spend some of what use used to be your money on a fancy italian meal prepared by batalli. took the food, ate it, and then spit it into john stewart's mouth. >> like a mama bird. >> i wonder if at that moment was the moment you thought, why didn't i think of that? >> no, it is not. why didn't i think of chewing food up and spitting it in stewart's mouth? how do you know i haven't done that, john? i worked over there for a lot of years. >> do you want to make a disclosure here about that? >> no, i am not. again, garbage questions. >> you were kept out 0 of last night's debate. >> i don't understand. i'm polling at 13% nationally in a three-way race between mitt romney and barack obama. >> where were you. >> i was right here in the mills house eating buffalo wings. >> so romney -- >> could be worse. >> romney is going after gingrich for comparing himself to historical figures,

i did a debate with howard dean over and northwestern university about two years ago. i was asked by a student, what is the greatest virtue of america, and howard dean answered adversity. i said, well, no, you got that one wrong. diversity is a wonderful thing, but the key to america is the fact that people who are diverse can come together to be one. e. pluribus unim -- out of many, one. [applause] to the greatness of our constitution, it is not just the establishment of the legislature. the greatness is that it created a structure where everyone could come together and have their say and fight it out, people who have strong convictions based on faith or no faith, people who have experience in one area or experience from another country. they can come to america and work together to come up with a common purpose. that is what our founders did. people from very different backgrounds, different states and traditions. they came together with a core set of values that believed in free people. and then, through free people, we could build a great society from the bottom-up

we did -- i did a debate with howard dean over in northwestern university about two years ago.t's the greatest virtue of america? and howard answered diversity. and i said, well, no, you got that one wrong. that the -- the diversity is a wonderful thing to respect diversity. but the key to america is the fact that people who are diverse the come together to be one. e.pluribus unim -- out of many, one. so, for the greatness of our constitution is not the establishment of the legislature and this. the greatness is it created a structure where everyone can come together and have their say and fight it out. people who have strong convictions based on faith or no faith, people who have, you know, experience in one area or, you know, experience from another country. and can come to america and make the -- make, you know, work together to come with the common purpose, that's what our founders did. people in very different backgrounds and states and traditions came together with a corset of values that believed in free people. and that through free people, we could build a great societ

if you put all of our four-year institutions together, depaul, chicago, northwestern, loyola coming universityr, the community colleges have twice as many students as all of the four-year institutions. they never get the focus for the attention that they deserve. nationwide, up 52% of all people going to college are going to community colleges. in chicago, we have great four- year institutions. we have two of the five best business schools, both and kellogg. the great law schools. we of the destination of choice when people graduate, the city and the state. chicago is the magnate people graduating from the big 10 states, and arbor, madison, they come to chicago after graduating. in the work force skills that, -- skill set, we do not pay attention to the people that actually do the data entry, do the hospitality work, and that also deserves attention. what we have done in chicago is for the first two schools, malcolm x will be our health school. we have brought in walgreens, express scripts, hospitals to do all of the curriculum and training. they are running the program, not just partnering, b