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this is big news when it come to parkinson's. >> it certainly is. the study just came out a couple hours ago, jessica. what is really amazing about this treatment is that some patients say they noticed improvements just one week after surgery. sharon has always led an active life. she is an afrt and wants to hike. but parkinson's robbed her of even the simple things. >> shaking so much that i couldn't lift a fork or a wine glass. it was like this. >> so sharon volunteered for a clinical trial at stanford university medical center. she underwent surgery to receive a new gene therapy treatment developed by newero logics. she received special proteins to help calm the overactive part of her brain that caused her tremors. a year and a half later, she has no visible shaking. she said she has no side effects from this procedure. >> let's talk about this clinical trial. how many people were involved in this? are there plans to do more? >> there were 22 people involved nationwide including two patients here in the bay area. and there are plans to do further

. >>> and is it time to switch your timeki what time of medicine might guard against parkinson's disease? that's coming up. o >>> the man who assassinated robert f. kennedy says he doesn't remember shooting him and because of that, he wants to be set free. he made the argument today. he has spent 42 years behind bars for the assassination. this is his 14th parole hearing. a board will decide whether he has expressed remorse for his crime. the attorney believes there was a second gunman and that he has been brainwashed. >>> more trouble for charlie sheen. police have removed his twin sons from his home. sheen himself released home video of himself when he gave up the boys. brooke mueller was granted a restraining order against sheen. she says the boys should not be raised in sheen's home with the two women he calls his goddes s goddesses. he spoke this morning on the "today" show where he said he was very calm and focused. mueller has accused him of making death threats. >>> serena williams is home recovering after having emergency treatment for a blood clot in her lungs. doctors treating

the health committee in terms of parkinson's and other diseases who are seeing the impact on their appropriations, saying this is not the right thing to do at this time. let's do the right thing. we have worked together in a bipartisan way before. we can do it before. just a seriousness about what the cuts are and what the impact is, recognizing some of them will end up costing us money unless we are was about what this selection is. we will have more to say later as we have a meeting this afternoon perrin us this

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. >> i noticed on the hill there were a group of parkinson sufferers that came to lobby congress. >> you know, every dollar the government appropriates has a constituency. and will be groups and individuals that do not like what we're cutting. but i think if they see cuts are equal, fair, and jewishly responsible, i -- and judicially responsible, i think that's what they would like. if they are reduced below last year's level, those were thoughtfully crafted so as to have no effect on bio-medical research. the bill enshures new awards are maintained. we think those cuts are judiciously made. >> do you think cuts could come back and harm republicans athe polls in 2012? is that a concern of yours? >> i don't think that's the way it is going to pan out. the public told us in the election cut spending, get the deficit under control, because that means jobs for our people and a better economy is a better way of life and to save our kids and grand kids from this huge debt that we're piling on top of them. i think if we focus on that overarching goal and ambition and need, i think people ar

those who take the over-the- counter pain reliever ibuprofen may cut the risk of developing parkinsons disease. that's according to a new study by harvard. finds people who take ibuprofen two or more times a week lower their risk of developing the disease by 38%. researchers say other pain relievers such as aspirin do not have the same effect. >>> well, early this morning firefighters quickly put out a fire at a strip mall saving a number of businesses. take a look at the live scene here. the reason the firefighters were able to be on that scene within one minute of the 911 call. >>> and an emergency meeting last night in san francisco. what police are worried about. >>> this mexican restaurant won't be opening up any time soon. we'll tell you just what happened here this morning. >>> a man hunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from jail. the surprising way he made his get away. that's all ahead here on the ktvu morning news. >>> good morning

win the hikers' release but the trip would depend on the health of her husband who suffers from parkinson's disease. this comes the day after ali revealed he sent a second letter to iran's supreme leader asking as a fellow muslim to release josh and shane. he has not received a response yet. >>> four new york times journalists are now missing in libya this morning. editors say they last heard from the four on tuesday. the newspaper says if it turns out that the journalists were captured by military forces, the libyan government has promised to release them unharmed. meantime, supporters of a no- fly zone over libya are calling for a security council vote today. resolution is designed to prevent aerial attacks on the libyan people. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton says she won't continue in her job even if president obama wins re-election next year. she does not want to keep the position she now holds past next year. she also adds she's not interested in running for president or vice president either. >>> the survivor of a brutal attack speaks out. >> so i said. [ indiscernible ] >> th

there is a group of parkinson's sufferers that came to lobby congress against cuts. >> every dollar the government appropriates has a constituency. there will be groups and individuals that do not like what we are cutting. but if they see the cuts are judicious, fair and equally sacrificial, i think that is our best argument. by the way, the funding in the bill call week reduced that funding by $1.6 billion below last year's level, but those were very thoughtfully crafted so as to have no effect on biomedical research. the bill ensures almost 9000 new competitive research awards are maintained. we think those cuts are judiciously made. >> more broadly, are you concerned that the public in general is going to get the sense that republicans want to cut programs that are important and perhaps even more important to the most vulnerable people in society and could that comeback and harm republicans in 2012? is that a concern? >> i don't think that's the way it is going to pan out. the public told us in the election to cut spending and get the deficit under control because that means jobs for

like being told they have ms or parkinson's. but as we can cite huge numbers of examples of people who have lived meaningful lives long years, decades after these diagnoses, you can live with it unlike some of the worst diseases of old, old age. but to say that everybody can even people who are not terminal, everybody who said i've had a good life and i've had enough is depressed, one example i use in my book is this 102 year-old man in st. louis. very well-known in st. louis. i'm sure the shrink would have loved to have gotten their hands on them. he was a leader in the jewish community, still have the st. louis. in the 1940s with st. louis was still very much a southern town and its racial attitudes, he insisted that unions on his construction projects admit african-americans. he was a huge civic figure, philanthropist and builder in st. louis. and he was just fine until he was about 99 when he fell and broke his hip. anyway, again, a great example of someone who can age successfully into you can't. then he had to have a compa

so when he's doing this interview his parkinson like tics are coming back so in order to make up fort so they don't know it's happening he pretends to rub his eyebrow so it's like that. it's such a sad moment watching this guy so vulnerable. and i thought this was a stupid question because so so specific and i thought maybe he wouldn't remember this. so i said did you... is that something that happened in the moment or was that something when you interviewed parkinson's patients that you found that they were embarrassed by that they would try to make up for something? and he said no, no, i didn't see anybody do that. >> rose: did it instinctively? >> did it instinctively. >> rose: that's why he's robert de niro. >> right. >> he's amazing. >> i think it was like the second day of shooting we're doing the scene in the office and i'm taking in everything he's doing trying to figure out... what a gift i have working with this guy. i remember we're... the scene is he gets up from the desk and he walks over to the table and i'm by the table and right before action he... and he's going to w

i would say overall and we had a fed testimony by pat parkinson recently on this topic, i would say overall that some of the worst fears about commercial real estate seem not to be coming true, that there is some stabilization of vacancy rates and prices and so on in this market. that being said, there is still a lot of, as you say, a lot of properties that are going to have to be refinanced, and probably some losses the banks are still going to have to take. it is still a risk to the financial system, but it does seem to be looking at least marginally better than we were fearing six months ago. >> thank you. >> senator johanns. >> m cirman, thank you. mr. chairman, good to see you again. as i was listening to the discussion about qe-2, which you know i've been a critic of that, i'm not supportive of what you're doing, but having said that, it occurred to me that maybe we're focusing on consequences and not focusing enough on the reasons that maybe got you to that decision point. so let me, if i might, offer a thought about that and i would like your reaction to it. never in the history of

toman esta pastilla una a dos veces por semana tienen 38% menos riesgo de desarrollar el mal de parkinson>> y un tratamiento para el rostro, lo que quisiera es lograr mejor lo puedo para mi edad. hoy lugar en se estirarse se va a rellenar. >> van pasando los años, la gravedad que jala los tejo idos y entonces quedamos con cuello colgando las pa padz y el otro es que tenemos volumen, nos deshidratamos. >> ver volumen para rejuvenecer y se combinan varias técnicas. >> aumentamos volumen usando la grasa de la persona y ahora también dentro de la grasa de la persona sabemos que hay células madres dultadultas, pero no usa eso solamente, combinamos la grasa con un tratamiento de plaquetas, duró un poco más de una hora no requiere de anestesia pero sí local y sedación infra ve necesaria. >> y primero se saca la sangre y se separan las plaquetas. >> son células que tienen pequeños proteínas, y esos mensajmenso forman colágeno y se hace un masaje. >> en el proceso de liposucción parte de las células de la se rompen entonces botan el aceite dentro de ellos. >> pero antes de transo pero ir la grasa

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there are already people putting computers in their bodies and brains, parkinson's patients, deaf people with cochlear implants. ultimately, weelz do it noninvasively. they're getting smaller and smaller. this was the size of a building when i was a student. >> rose: the power of that. >> this will be in the size of a blood cell and much more powerful. this is also a billion times more powerful per dollar than when i was a student. that trend will continue. we'll be able to send very powerful devices the size of blood cells into our bodes and brains, keep us healthy, extend our thinking. this might as well be in my body and brain because it is part of who i am-- and by the way, half the farmers in china carry devices like this. >> a kid in africa with a smart phone has access to more information than our u.s. president did just 15 years ago. that should be a very powerful statistic for people to listen to. >> rose: it's a powerful idea, it really is. let's talk about singularity in 2045, the year man becomes immortal. >> a big idea is artificial intelligence, which is progressing also ex

many diseases that are very important, especially some diseases that appear to be rising such as parkinson's disease are really not tracked at all. so that is an important and related issue. but i also want to speak about the issue of duplication because it's a tricky issue, because in my view coordination of resources is very, very important and making sure that the approved the expertise is uploaded to address these clusters is also very important. up until now, the fact that it's really been atsdr or the states that have responded to clusters means that not all of the necessary resource is part the table, especially some of the environmental sampling approaches. in addition, when we were involved in researching report on clusters, we contact did the atsdr, which is housed in cdc, assuming that they would be tracking disease clusters simply tell us where clusters are. they told us that not only do they not track disease clusters and have no information about where they are located, they told us furthermore that they are no longer investigating disease clusters. and so we said if that's the

like i said earlier, anxiety, depression, parkinson's, and alzheimer's--from the brain.he cardiovascular-- cardiovascular disease. high cholesterol, which i know touches a lot of people out there. >> absolutely. >> all of these conditions in this book and how to heal them naturally and how to work with your gut to get better. just absolutely mind-boggling. i mean, anything you mention is in there. >> so then if you go into-- for example--and i want you to know this is a four-color book, a four-color book that is filled with illustrations and is so easy. now, the beauty of this is, i have two medical doctors writing. one is the brain doctor, and the other is the g.i. doctor, and they are putting their comments on the conditions in the book. so we have dr. smith's comments as a surgeon, what he's seen in his practice. also, we have what's called brenda's bottom line. >> what's that, brenda? >> well, that's sort of my summary of what i've seen over the years in people with a particular condition, whether it's high cholesterol or anything like that. but the best part of this

study found patients who took ibuprofen two to three times per week were 38% less likely to develop parkinson's disease. the results only applied to that particular drug and not similar drugs such as aspirin. the study is published in journal neurology. >> legendary actor micky rooney delivered powerful testimony about his experience as a victim of elder abuse. the 90-year-old told a special committee a family member cut him off from his own finances. rooney says for years he was too ashamed to reach out for help. >> for years i suffered silently. i didn't want to tell anyone. i couldn't muster the courage. and you have to have courage to. i need help. i knew i needed it. >> rooney is pressing congress to establish legislation aimed at preventing eder abuse. >> there are major concerns being raised tonight about unsafe rental car autos cars under recall but not being pulled off the road. 7 on your side is here with the story. >> this is hard to believe there are currently no federal laws stopping rental car agencies from renting you a recalled car. today's senator introduced a bill to change th

about other things, and my dad, four weeks ago, we sad down for breakfast, and he is dealing with parkinsons, battling his own health right now, and he looked me in the eye and said, i'm sorry. i wish i had known. i wish i had been there and that enabled to us -- i said, great. it was like this big weight being lifted off me. it was like, wow, he gets it now, and then we were able to build on a relationship, and like many other families, we're a work in progress. but i love. the. they love me. all the time they spent battling and doing the things in anywhere rates of, they're now concentrating on our kids, which is a wonderful value to me and to them. >> what compelled you to seek the senate seat in the first a place. >> it was on a dare, first of all. don't ever challenge me. that's why the president doesn't want to play me in basketball. [laughter] [applause] >> that's actually the final question. could yao beat -- could you beat the president in basketball? >> tell him to bring this wallet. [applause] >> but seriously, i could beat him. [laughter] >> listen, i've been blessed. i have had

he had parkinson's, and it was a time when men--this is a kind of a fourth-generation southerner-- didn'these things. and one day he took his own life. it was a month before i was going to graduate from high school, and i think for a long time i believed that that really grew out of the fact that he couldn't express his feelings in any meaningful way. he left-- - his suicide note is very terse. - yeah, very terse. "i cannot live a sick man". but he had left behind at the time of his death 28 cassette tapes in which he chronicled his rise from dirt poverty in mississippi to a small-town lawyer in savannah, georgia, and my father had them transcribed, but no one had really read them, and when i got sick i went back and read them. and what was striking was that in these 28 cassette tapes, he never mentioned his mother by name, he never mentioned his wife by name, or their courtship, or their marriage; my dad, his brother, only in passing; the grandchildren, not at all. so i think that in a way he was really longing to tell his story, but his whole life he had no one to tell his story to. may

and my dad, for weeks ago, we sat down for breakfast, and he's dealing with parkinson's. he's battling in his own, you know, health right now and electing any eye and said, i'm sorry. i wish i had known. i wish i had been there. and that enabled us, it was great, like this big weight being lifted off the. like okay, he gets it that. and they were able to build on our relationship. and like many other families we are a work in progress but i love them, they love me. any, all the time they spent battling and doing the things in their lives, they how are now counting on our kids which is a wonderful value to me and to them. >> what compelled you to seek the senate seat in the first place that was so traditionally democratic? >> it was on a dare first of all. don't ever challenge me. that's why the president does want to play me in basketball. [laughter] [applause] >> okay? if i could use it in the middle of your answer them that's the final question. could you beat the president at basketball? [laughter] >> just tell him to bring his wallet. [applause] >> but seriously, yeah

other things and other things, and my dad for weeks ago sat down for breakfast and dealing with parkinson's, battling in his own health right now and he looked me in the eye and so i'm sorry. i wish i had known. i wish i had been there. it was like this great weight lifted off me. he gets it now. and then we were able to build on the relationship and like many of the families we are the work in progress, but i love them, they love me. all of the time that they have spent battling and doing the things in their lives they've now concentrated on our kids, which has a wonderful fallujah to me and to them. what was it was so traditionally democratic? >> it was on adair first of all. don't ever challenge me. [laughter] the president doesn't want to play me at basketball. okay? [laughter] [applause] >> let me say if i could say in the middle of your answer that's the final question, could you beat the president at basketball? [laughter] >> tell him to bring his wallet. [laughter] but seriously, yeah i could beat him. listen, i've been blessed. i had like i said some good people. i enjoy playing sp

he suffers from parkinson's. ali has sent two letters from the -- to the prime minister there asking as a brother of islam, they should release josh fattal and shane bauer. no response yet. >>> the san jose police chief says he won't use department resources to enforce immigration. chief chris moore said yesterday during a national teleconference to police executives that immigration enforcement by local police creates a disruptive wedge -- wedge between the community and officers. he also says it's an inefficient and costly use of dwindling resources and possibility of another 300- officer lay off, he needs to focus on other priorities. >>> we have a commute priority. sal, what's happening with the crash on highway 24 westbound. >> we have a crash on highway 24. that crash is being removed from the freeway. they are moving it over to the right-hand side. one of the things i need to let you know is they had to temporarily shut down the lanes. the traffic is very slow coming in from the walnut creek area all way u

many diseases that are very important, especially some diseases that appear to be rising such as parkinson's disease, are really not tracked at all. so that is an important and related somebody. but i also wanted to speak about this issue of duplication because it's a tricky issue because in my view coordination of resources is very, very important. and making sure that the appropriate expertise is deployed to address thee clusters have also very important. and up until now, the fact that it's really been atsdr or the states who have responded to clusters means that not all the necessary resources are at the table, especially some of the environmental sampling approaches. in addition, when we were involved in researching our report on disease clusters, we contacted the atsdr, which is housed at c.d.c., assuming that they would be tracking disease clusters and could tell us where the disease clusters are. they told us that not only do they not track disease clusters and have no information about where they're located, they told us furthermore that they are no longer investigating disease clus

grants to find cures for cancer, for alzheimer's, for parkinson's, for diabetes, heart disease. i ask you for the living americans to not cut grants to the national institute of health and let us have lives that go further than they otherwise would because ever these crippling catastrophic illnesses. i yield back the remainder of my time. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp, seek recognition? mr. camp: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 129, i call up the bill h.r. 4, to repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 6, h.r. 4, a bill to repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 129, the amendment in the nature of a substitute consequencing

many diseases that are very important, especially some diseases that appear to be rising such as parkinson's disease are really not tracked at all. so that is an important and related issue. but i also want to speak about the issue of duplication because it's a tricky issue, because in my view coordination of resources is very, very important and making sure that the approved the expertise is uploaded to address these clusters is also very important. up until now, the fact that it's really been atsdr or the states that have responded to clusters means that not all of the necessary resource is part the table, especially some of the environmental sampling approaches. in addition, when we were involved in researching report on clusters, we contact did the atsdr, which is housed in cdc, assuming that they would be tracking disease clusters simply tell us where clusters are. they told us that not only do they not track disease clusters and have no information about where they are located, they told us furthermore that they are no longer investigating disease clusters. and so we said if that's the

the health committee in terms of parkinson's and other diseases who are seeing the impact on their appropriations, saying this is not the right thing to do at this time. let's do the right thing. we have worked together in a bipartisan way before. we can do it before. just a seriousness about what the cuts are and what the impact is, recognizing some of them will end up costing us money unless we are was about what this selection is. we will have more to say later as we have a meeting this afternoon perrin us this afternoon. >> vice president biden has finished a meeting on capitol hill about how to fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal 2011. in a statement he said they had a good meeting and of the conversation will continue. earlier, white house officials said they are proposing an additional $6 billion in federal spending cuts choose a vendor 30. that is on top of the $4 billion in cuts already in a two-week spending measure that the president signed yesterday. president obama today called on libyan leaders to step down from power. he made those remarks at a joint news conference

the chances of curing cancer, parkinson's and alzheimer's disease are all seriously diminished. most of the cuts target poor people. hundreds of program cuts will also endanger all of our lives. we've thrown hundreds of programs into a dump truck the republicans call h.r. 1 bound for the trash compactor. let's reach in, though, and look at just one of those, meat inspection. the law requires the federal inspector to be present at all 6,000 slaughterhouses and packing plants across the country but this republican budget's 19% cut will require 8,600 such inspectors to be furloughed for 22 days which means that packing plants like hormel, may have to lay off thousands of people for that period of time. why do this when federal inspectors stop 9 1/2 million pounds of poisoned meat just last year alone and 71 recalls? let's derail the dump truck called h.r. 1. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker

. >>> a first of its kind study is offering new hope in the treatment of parkinson's disease. researchers say half the patients who received experimental gene therapy showed meaningful improvements within six months. >>> even a picky either might go for veggies grown by michelle obama. her white house garden to date has yielded 2,000 pounds of produce. schoolchildren joined the first lady to plant spinach, broccoli and something new this year, beets, which the president admits he doesn't really care for too much. >>> let's go outside to al for a check of the weather. i love my beet salad. >> roasted beets are the best. love those. they're not green. we've got a lot of green today. a lot of leprechauns. where are you from? >> st. louis, missouri. >> a lot of leprechauns in st. louis. >> yes. >> let's check your weather and see what's going on. pick city, columbus, ohio, sunny and mild, a high of 66. my brother-in-law lives there. let's check the afternoon forecasts. 40s in the northeast. toasty through the southwest. 90s into texas with record highs to day. more heavy rain. sho

the national institutes of health, they are trying to find cures for alzheimer's and parkinson's and diabetes and cancer. let's cut them by $1.6 billion. clean drinking water? the republican bill slashes the clean water and state revolving fund by 66%. e.p.a., the bill includes an undesignated $300 million recession -- rescission to e.p.a. medicare cuts appropriations for the centers for medicaid and medicare services by $458 million below fiscal year 2010, and $634 million below the president's budget request. however what they fail to consider are the benefits associated with these costs. many of which generally feed the cost. by failing to consider money saved, the republicans are increasing the deficit and costs. nowhere is failure in fiscal policy more apparent than the physical health of the american people. it would increase the deficit dramatically as a result of unseen health care costs associated with the degradation of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. the physical impact of the republican cuts. the f.d.a., $241 million, this undo and historic im

i would say overall and we had a fed testimony by pat parkinson recently on this topic, i would say overall at some of the worst fears about commercial real estate seem not to be coming true, that there is some stabilization of vacancy rates and prices and so on in this market. that being said, there is still a lot of, as you say, a lot of properties that are going to have to be refinanced, and probably some losses the banks are still going to have to take. it is still a risk to the financial system, but it does seem to be looking at least marginally better than we were fearing six months ago. >> thank you. senator johanns. >> mr. chairman, thank you. mr. chairman, good to see you again. as i was listening to the scussion about qe-2, which you know i've been a critic of that, i'm not supportive of what you'redoing, but having said that, it occurred to me that maybe we're focusing on consequences and not focusing enough on the reasons that maybe got you to that decision point. so let me, if i might, offer a thought about that and i would like your reaction to it. never in the history of this