it didn't work for everyone, but the patients treated here at nyu whose hair and eyelashes turned allwhite later had their cancer tumors shrink completely, giving them their lives back. >> this is clearly your immune system that's attacking melanocytes and they're the cells that cause melanoma and cause you to have pigmentation. >> reporter: now considered disease free, gavin's new favorite color is white. but for tracy, who is also considered disease free, the white is something she wants to cover up. >> i'm only 38. i shouldn't have white hair yet. >> reporter: but she admits dying her hair is something she can live with. manuel gallegus, cbs news, new york. >>> a bahamas judge has dismissed charges against two people trying to extort $25 million from john travolta. travolta testified in the first of the two trials which ended in a mistrial last october. the judge says the actor didn't want to put his family through the stress and pain of a second trial. >>> finally this morning, we'll keep this very short, meet the world's shortest man. he is 24-year-old edward hernandez from colom

how it affects your insurance because it's very, very important is our good friend andrew rubin from nyu'senter. i think the first thing people need to know is especially if they have employer-based health care, it may not change because it's grandfathered in. >> basically it means during health care reform p president said if you like your insurance you can keep it. this says employers don't have to implement all the changes we're going to talk about in a minute. they have to implement some of them but not all of them. over time they have to change. >> i think one of the most important changes that's going to affect at los people i've spoken with is the mandated coverage for adult dependence up to age 26. so if you are on your parents' insurance you can stay on it until you're 26 years old. >> that's a big deal. dependent children could be married and not living in your parents' house but still be covered. here's a little catch with the grandfathered provision. if you're a child and your employer offers health insurance and you don't take it because you can't afford it you can't go on you

nyu is a specially focused on this trend. >> targeted therapy is the ability to disrupt the cancer cellnd only the cancer cell and cut down on the damage that we do. >> the evolution of targeting the tumor first appeared in surgical techniques for breast cancer. >> the woman would have a lump. there were no minimum evasive techniques so she would not know if she would wake up with a breast or no breast at all. >> there is a revolution going on. what we do now compared to what we did ten years ago is completely different. >> amy pearson uses targeted drugs. she joined vicky's team. unfortunately there is no targeted treatment for vicky's disease. it may be a matter of time since science have identified the molecules that feed the cancers of different types. >> what makes a cancer cell thick or what makes it grow. >> she is being treated with traditional chemotherapy. >> headaches are bad. >> chemotherapy is gives her the best chance she will not see us again. >> they still are cyto toxic meaning they still have side effects. >> we've made our peace. >> we look at cancer as more something

you have -- you're a new york city -- you went to nyu for awhile right? >> yeah, i did.t all? >> i really miss it. >> jimmy: you do? >> yeah. it's so much fun. there's no city like it. i like l.a. it's fun. but there's nothing like new york. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very smart. we love you here. >> yeah. now turn around and go back home. >> jimmy: you studied in london, as well, yeah? >> yeah, i studied in london for a little while. it was fun. i did get mugged out there, but -- >> jimmy: you got mugged in london? >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's kind of funny. actually it's not funny, but you're okay. >> i'm okay. >> jimmy: but you lived in new york city. you ever get mugged here? >> no. never a problem. >> jimmy: what was the mugging like? >> i was walking down the street and i wasn't paying attention. and i looked up and saw this guy with a bandanna like this and a bandanna down like that, and i went, "hey, that kind of looks like a bandit or something." and -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: looks like a bandit. >> and that was all i had time to think. and he grabbed my nec

clinical assistant professor of sipsychiatry with the nyu cente.t was the first reaction that everybody had. why would you do this to yourself? >> it's really unfortunate the circumstance that millions of women around the world have had injuries done to them for a voi variety of reasons. why would somebody take this upon themselves. i often see in extreme cases borderline personal disorder, people injure themselves, but never to this extent. so this begs the question, is there something like a fictitious disorder going on? in factitious disorder we see people harm themselves. >> so people who cut themselves? that kind of thing? is that similar? >> this goes another step beyond. sometimes when people cut themselves they do it with a purpose of relieving tension they feel. in factitious disorder the primary purpose is to take on the sick role. to get attention, nurturing and whatever comes with being sick. in malingering we see some people have second gain. media attention, money, at this point it's unclear to say is this person trying to obtain the

. >> rick: you're a journalism professor at nyu. you are sort of molding the minds of young people. why do you not -- why are you so skeptical that we can't do it? >> i'm afraid it takes time and money and these are things that are getting harder and harder to find. that explaining all the nuances of a poll, what's going possibly going wrong with it, why the wording might affect the outcome, that takes a lot of air time. that takes a lot of word space. it's getting harder to get that. >> rick: doug, we did this because 67% of our audience said we should. >> right. >> rick: i'm joking. can we do better? >> yeah. we all can do better. i think one of the things that fox and other networks strive to do is to have the degree of intellectual rigor and preciseness that charles suggests. i know when i do polls, i try to provide it and i know when i'm booked to come on fox, there is an effort to find out are the numbers real? what's behind the numbers? how are they put together? we all probably can do better, but we have to strive to do what charles suggested. >> rick: charles book is "proof

steven lamb is an internist at nyu medical center. he joins us with insight.ood morning. >> good morning. >> tragic story. a young man, sudden death. can a seizure in itself be fatal? >> it can, you know, when it's called status epileptic. it doesn't stop. when you have a cardiac event where your heart stops working and there is no pumping of oxygen to the brain, when you may have a seizure and you think the cause is the seizure it's secondary to a primary heart problem. the autopsy will ultimately reveal what the problem is, but the majority of young athletes less than 35 years of age will die of some sort of congenital heart problem that was not diagnosed earlier. >> in this case he had previous seizures, but you're saying this could happen to a young player that's never been diagnosed? >> absolutely. we don't know the numbers. it could be 1 in 200,000 young athletes, those less than 35 years of age, will die suddenly. it is a congenital problem of the heart known as ihss in the majority of cases. sometimes it's due to the case that the coronary arteries are

bring in veteran democratic strategist and nyu professor, bob shrum. white house wanted to vote before the election, they're not going to get it. what does this mean? >> it means that harry reid had too many democratic defectors and those democratic defectors are not only disloyal to the principles of the democratic party, they're dumb. the republican leaders, the last thing in the world that they wanted and voted on i bill that would have made the tax cuts for the middle class permanent and ended the tax cuts for the rich that george bush passed. every single poll shows the democrats have the advantage on this issue. that's all democrats should have needed to know. they need to go out there and fight. in fact, there's even a democracy core poll that says if you build a message from the midterms around this and add things like, tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, which the republicans are all in favor of, the -- do you turn a seven-point democratic deficit into a nine-point democratic advantage? now, it wouldn't thab big, but we've got tofg out ther

most of the young muslims i speak to, and as a professor at nyu, i get to speak to a lot of young muslims. they tell me that they adore the freedoms that they have in this country. they do have some fears. but they do not at all, any of the ones i have spoken to, consider this any kind of pre-holocaust moment. i say to them is, have moderates in your community told you that the highest number of victims that al qaeda has are, in fact, muslims. in other words, al qaeda kills more muslims than any other group. have you heard that? they have not heard that. this is one of the key reasons. it's not just that we, as if broader society, need to make a distinction between al qaeda and all muslims. i think in muslim communities as well. they need to teach the young people that to have solidarity with muslims doesn't simply criticizing u.s. foreign policy. it means criticizing the very muslims killing people in the name of your religion. >> you serve on a committee. an advisory committee for the president and the white house on interfaith issues. the issue is leadership. it's not been lost that th

they are in order penn, brown, overland, nyu.that an ivy league like penn ranks at the top of that list. >> no it doesn't. penn is in an urban area, a big school. i think they make an effort to be very inclusive and we -- i'm not at all surprised. i think there is a smaller school on there that might surprise you, a new school called soka university of america and it's in california and they are also very diverse, also on some of our other best lists. they are founded on buddhist principles. they are very service minded. so you have these schools that are gay friendly that have a high proportion of ethnic diversity but also socioeconomic diversity which is one of the things we looked at at washington monthly. >> okay. last one to get to the 25 schools stocked with jocks shall we say? nebraska, tulsa, alabama, bates and bowdoin. a lot of southern representation here. >> not only are they big sports schools in terms of the teams but they have a lot of intramural and varsity sports participation and i think that is partially because

melissa inuwalla of nyu child development center.ur, the reaction we've gotten already. there's one from a viewer named karen, rich. and she asks, how can you tell when teens are just being teens? and when they are actually depressed? >> that's a tough question, as a general pediatrician. it's one that i face. depression is a departure from normal childhood development. it's normal to want to spend more time with your friends. to separate from your parents. when you have a loss of enjoyment in activities, difficulty functioning, that's when you have to think about depression. you may see changes. a loss of appetite. you may see dropping grades. feelings of worthlessness. changes in sleep. too much or difficulty sleep. and the loss of interest in activities that used to give them enjoyment. if you're seeing those things, that's time to talk to their doctor and get help. >> there's many reasons why depression, and bullying. there's a study that came out recently from the gay, lesbian and strait education network. and it dealt with gay

marc siegel is a fox news medical contributor and professor of medicine at nyu medical center, and, amg that properly. >> you got that exactly right. >> julie: thank goodness and a member of our medical a-team, the most important title. and should we be going to the drug store? i mean, i'm used to buying over the counter stuff and get my understanding flu shot at the pharmacy? it kind of freaks me out. >> i have mixed feelings about it. the american pharmacists association certified 100,000 pharmacists to give shots and they studied it and found out some have more time than doctors and may be telling you more about your health before hand and that is good. the bad thing: 10% of americans are actually going there. it is going up and the bad thing is, what if something goes wrong and you have an egg allergy or get sick and you can't get the flu from a flu shot, what if you get sick. >> julie: they will not test you for allergies at the drug store. >> they may ask you but not test you for allergies and may not know your underlying medical history the way i do. i prefer a primary physician

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but nyu students want to know what it's like to live your dream right now?d a show in town. "rock of ages." and some guy is up there singing a bon jovi song. i was up on stage with him singing "wanted dead or alive." . it's amazing. if you put your mind to something, you can go out and do it. >> it feels like every day is a blessing because you get to do what you love. and people love it. some people do what they love. and some people don't love it. >> that's true. >> we're lucky, you know, that we're getting to do it. and people are responding. it's a huge blessing. >> yeah. a blessing. >> well said. thank you both very much. and, you know what? the class of 2014, you never know what's going to happen on down the pike. so, thank you for your questions. and good luck to you. >> go for it. >> now, you can see the full list of cma award nominees at abcnews.com/g abcnews.com/gma. now, we see you. we want to hear you sing. we're going to hear you sing tonight, on the big special we have. the 44th annual cma awards, hosted by brad paisley, on november 10th. and t

it was shortly after september 11, i was invited by bill clinton to nyu to a panel that he had organizedans were in shock. people in new york had a lot of questions that they wanted answered. we recognize the importance of doing that and what we did was begin to talk about muslim americans. what i did before i went to the session is i called a lot of friends to get some anecdotes and poured over my mind in the 30 years i have been doing this work. i have a doctorate in islamic studies. i have organized arab-americans for as long as i can remember. i have been polling arab- americans and american muslims prayed putting it all together, i pulled some stories about a young woman who was a premed student, an idealist. she told me one day, i am not going to be like my father. i want to practice my religion by opening a clinic for the portrait that is how i would practice my faith. then there was a guy i knew in cincinnati reminded me so much of my father, he took me to the mosque that he had helped raise the money to build. he was so proud of the building. he toward me around and showed me th

mary, you have studied this issue for the better part of ten years, you're a teacher at nyu law schoolp to help parents who are in this case. and this letter that's gone out to the 5,000 people who are waiting for some sort of judgment. is this the end of the line for them? >> it probably is, alisyn. the omnibus office and proceeding has been going on over eight years with the 5,000 claims and tested two theories. did mercury inductees cause audition, did the mmr, measles, mumps and rubella cause autism they decided in six test cases, no, vaccines don't cause autism. and court of appeals, the decision, no. they said to the families, look, if you have nothing different than the test cases, let us know. >> and as we heard from dana, it sounds like they're making the families jump through almost impossible legal hoops. they want them to go out and drum up their own medical expert and come up with a new medical theory? why are they making it so tough? >> well, they feel the court of federal claims believes it went through the steps it needed to go through. i don't see it that way. i did wr

a college education, they're going on -- one went on to the school of finance and others went on to nyuchildren's lives. they'll never fall into that pattern because it's learned behavior. and i probably have a stack of letters almost to the ceiling here from these women and they're eloquent and touching. and they're grateful beyond -- somebody who doesn't even know them will help them. and when we help them, we help them. we don't give them $250 and say go for it. we get their locks changed, we get help for their children. they haven't had good physical care naturally. and the wives, we had three die. so we do everything it takes to make them -- and they respond like gang busters. and they're like the prisoners in that they want to learn. you don't have to convince them. they know it's their way out, the only way unless they want to go back to the old way. so the the professors for the prisons -- i'm going back to that. they write me letters and say someone talked me into this and i didn't want to do. and as a matter of fact, i made the course harder for the people in the prison. and i