out of pocket costs for multiple sclerosis medications were 20 times higher in 2016 than in 2004 and it's not just m s patients. the study looked at 900,000 peopleperiod. specifically people with m s dementia parkinson's and epilepsy. each took at least one nor logical medication and were privately insured and each sought big price increases. researchers say doctors need to be aware of the costs so they can best advise and prescribe for their patients. they say age is just a number and one doctor in new york is proof of that file many people her age appreciate slowing down a bit. she says she has no intention of kicking up her heels chain dow introduces us to the unstoppable doctor melissa freeman who just celebrated. >>her 93th birthday. >>on a misty wednesday evening in the tidy building lobby of 10 lenox terrace in harlem friends and neighbors scrambled to celebrate a legend assuming they can still keep up with her. to no one's surprise doctor melissa freeman popped out of the elevator looking as they say sharp as a tack. the title doctor the result of what will next year be her 65th year practicing internal medicine, i'm only doing i am supp

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people study. n these college stude are buying adhd drugs illegally from the medications earned a s reputation asmart or steroids for the brain. >> it basically made me feeli like was able to accomplish things i normallyou wdn't be able to and made me hyperfocused in the moment. >> three r college graduates tell us students don't think twice about popping the pills. you'll also hear from medical experts abo the dangerous and sometimes even deadly consequences of taking these medications without a prescription. >> that's right. our team coverage on a risis campus starts tomorrow night on news 4 at 5:00. >> we're looking forward to that. coming up next, the terps thriller tonight. d.c. united in primetime. one star honoring dad. dave johnson up next with more on ts touching tribute. hi >> home field advantage, d.c. united had one. only two losses in 15 game here. that's the home fie advantage this season two losses in just six games. so tonigh sporting kansas city touted another chance for united to make audi field a fortress again. a nice touch on mother's day wi moms and wives of players honored. alm

s asking for host: ok. obviously, a lot of people are having trouble getting access to their medical reference. there were a lot of -- there is a lot of software. and what you have is a lot of situations where they can't communicate with one another. that was maybe the mistake made back when this first rolled out. that is what many critics think, and it is one of the reasons we are in the situation we are in today, that there was no thattance -- an insistence there be a commonality of systems, to be able to talk to each other and easily retrieve information and send it on to the patient. host: frank from new york. caller: hi. i have been in the medical field for 20 years. i worked for one of the biggest surgeons in manhattan. back then, didn't use electronic records. now, i think there are the best thing that ever have and to the medical field. they are more precise, less time-consuming. you were talking about doctors typing into computers, what about when they had to sit down and write them? let me tell you, a doctors handwriting is very hard to figure out. thing that i think stops people from

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the indian s force has been on standby the indian call scott a need we have been deployed many teams that all the deployed and one million people have been evacuated and medical the medical help for them has also been provided and also electricity backup is being provided as well so far has been a great effort for twenty years ago the last time there was a super cycle in india ten thousand people died in the same state where the cycle has made landfall now right now we're hearing reports of fairly low casualties and authorities are hoping that it will stay that way of the mission just well in delhi thank you so much. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world spain says it will not hand over venezuelan opposition politician leopoldo lopez despite a warrant to detain him lopez has taken refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas after escaping house arrest in twenty fourteen he led the first major movement against president nicolas maduro. partial results from britain's local council elections show a dramatic fall in support for the two main political parties the governing conservatives lost around four hundred forty seats an

people were injured. which means a medical centre like this one in kabul plays a vital role. translation: we feel proud when we see an amputee coming in in his mother ‘sd keeps on smiling and dancing, proof that even in the most desperate of times they can be hope. — there can be. tim allman, bbc news. a massive dust on bearing down on the australian town of mildura. locals describe it as the worst dust storm they have seen that in 40 yea rs. storm they have seen that in 40 years. much more on all the news on the website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. thank you for watching. hello there, good morning. with the benefit of some sunshine yesterday, temperatures reached 17 degrees at heathrow. but for the most part it remains chilly and that's the way it's going to stay through the rest of this week. and there will be some showers or some longer spells of rain. the weather is changing again. you can see how this cloud is sort of curling itself up into a knot. the thickest of the cloud is producing some rain and that is continuing to push its way up from the south—west. still quite chilly though, ahead of that. across so

challenge in two thousand and fourteen people all over the world record ice water over their heads in a bid to focus more medical research on the rare motor neuron disease a.l.'s. they posted the videos on social networks and raised millions in private donations scientists took note they'd seen how their laboratories and the public could be just a click apart. what would you rather we didn't have to stick it to us i think we can now invent new drugs faster if in the current i believe that there's so much more that we can do. with why the public support medical researchers can tackle diseases at the pharmaceutical industry overlooks. in the land of social media cats rule one of their stars is lil bub she looks a bit unique but she was exactly what two molecular biologists from berlin were searching for. now for the first time we'll be able to understand all the secrets. even you know what. the. scientists daniel sieberg a majority of the pianists worked for the max planck institute for molecular genetics. fine and. one night i was on the internet and this cat documentary came up in my recommendation and since one of the cats they showed was a little bug and the

s. that was something those people did wrong whereas the lacrosse player who gets an injury and addicted to pain medication made people re-examine some of their biases. problem weref the different than in a lot of other epidemics but also the way people perceive the problem was different as well and hopefully will have lasting change. we see a stimulant epidemic coming down the pike right now and we know that is going to be the next wave and it will be interesting to see if public perception has permanently changed on this or if it will be more of the same. if the population that is hit is different. abbe: if i could offer structural perspective, i think we started with this arguable epidemic of an undertreatment of pain in the 1990's. that led to a variety of initiatives to increase treatment throughout our system. structurally there were incentives that made where we are more likely with the way our health care system is structured. rating your pain on a scale of one to 10, back in the 1990's the idea was to encourage physicians to be attentive to pain. consumer surveys that consumers fill out that rate

1830's at a medical convention in cleveland in which he expressed a hymn of respect and acknowledgment of the importance of the native americans of the ohio history. so it wasn't that these peopleave no heart or empathy -- they did. i think a lot about what are the lessons of history? there are many, to say the least. one of them is very little of consequence is ever accomplished alone. it is a joint effort. this is about the joint effort of the first legal settlement in all of the northwest territory. two of the most important lessons in white history should be taught and required in our educational system are empathy and gratitude. we should be able to put ourselves in the place of those people who went before us and realize what they did and what the odds and the adversities were that they faced. secondly, grateful. so much of what we have, we just take for granted. that's rude as well as being ignorant. brian: do i count right that this is your 11th book? david: 12. brian: i am missing one. you had a lot of characters that you have written about in history. i want to go back over some of these. our first interview was in 1992. a short remembrance of harry truman. [video cli

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