group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with otherhave similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patie

around three quarters of the congenital heart disease in maryland is identified prenatally. we find this either during the obstetrical phase or immediately after birth. >> the good news is dr. rosenthal will be with us through the 6:30 hour. 410-481-2222 is the number to call. >>> all sweeps scanning clear, so that is a good thing. we'll continue to look for steady improvement in the weather as we go into the evening. although temperatures will cool off, winds letting up and a quiet night. things will change by tomorrow morning. 40 degrees right now at bwi. that is the current setup. winds are from the south at 5 to 10, a little breezier than that at times as the front pushes in out of the west. you can see the temperatures 39 in frederick. 37 in dover. as we take a look at some of your neighborhood forecasts tomorrow in baltimore county, i think we'll see mainly rain showers toward the middle part of the day, temperatures getting into the upper 40s. again, those showers will be fairly likely out there and a little different as you go further west. in fact, we take you out t

her doctor tells her to take a prenatal vitamin with folic acid. what about autism? tonight, a large new study suggests folic acid before conception and in the early month of pregnancy could lower the chance of getting it. >> i feel great, a lot of energy. it's been a wonderful experience. >> she takes a prenatal multivitamin with folic acid. looked at 85,000 children in norway. researchers found moms who took folic acid before they conceived and during the first two months of their pregnancy lowered their chances of having a child with autism by nearly 40%. >> there's a sensitive period in which folic acid supplements need to be taken in order to reduce the risk of autism. >> it will lead to new ideas and potentially new ways to prevent autistic disorders. >> folic acid reduces the risk of brain and spinal cord defects. >> it's not in any way dangerous to the patient. it's not costly. it is part of the standard of care regardless. we recommend it. >> she has been taking folic acid supplements since she tried to get pregnant. >> taking the right vitamins, eating well

we are not a leader when it comes to prenatal health care. it is why we need the motherhood initiative. $8 million in cuts are going to go, mr. speaker, to breast and cervical cancer screening, that means there will be 31,000 fewer cancer screenings for low-income women. now, i suppose we could just write these low-income women off the books. you know what happens, mr. speaker? when they are diagnosed with cervical cancer or with breast cancer, and they somehow up in the emergency room and they require even greater treatment or worse, it becomes a mortality risk because they lose their lives. not because the cancer was not curable, but they lose their lives because the cancer was not diagnosed. and yet here we are, mr. speaker, ready to exact $8 million in cuts that will prevent low-income women from receiving cervical cancer screenings and breast cancer screenings. it's not what a leader nation does, mr. speaker. now, we can recall very recently the very fierce battles to protect title 10 family planning and reproductive health services. i w

science, would seek to protect vulnerable populations like we talked about way back when, right, prenatally and in pregnancy, those ones that are maybe more vulnerable to chemical exposures and also to reduce exposures in communities with unfair burden of exposures, we know that very often, poor communities, communities of color, communities with less resources are exposed to higher levels of chemicals so we have to reduce that unfair burden because they already have enough unfair burden, so that calls for some comprehensive changes and we want to see those happen. the senate is not likely to reconvene and vote on this bill because we are winding down of course with this legislative session and this particular administration in terms of senates turning over, they're all -- most of them are up for re-election, house is turning over -- about half of them are up for re-election and of course presidential election as well, and so it is very likely of course that this will be reintroduced after all of those changes take effect and hopefully we'll have garnered some support and move forward, so w

times when the body's own hormones are orchestrating some complex and amazing things, during the prenatal period where with regard to the breast, you know, the basic structures are being laid down and that is guided by the body's own hormones or during puberty when breasts start to develop, we know that teenagers are like hormonally out of control, the hormones are doing some things there, pregnancy and lactation, and our body's own hormones work at these amazingly small amounts to make these big dramatic changes happen at these important periods of time, so it's not surprising perhaps that external chemicals na look to our body like hormones would have a somewhat notable effects at these same periods of development so that's an important concept that we're starting to see and chemicals that are endocrine disrupting compounds or hormone disrupters as you might hear them called are a big focus of the work we've been doing and of the data that's been emerging in the scientific literature in the last ten years so this is exciting stuff and we'll talk about specifics about that in a minute, a

. >> reporter: she takes a prenatal multivitamin with folic acid. a study looked at 85,000 children in norway. researchers found mothers who took folic acid supplements before they conceived and during the first two months of their pregnancy lowered their chances of having a child with autism 39%. >> it will lead to new ideas and potentially new ways to prevent autistic disorders. >> reporter: folic acid is already known to reduce the risk of brain and spine birth defects, like spina bifida. >> it's not in any way dangerous to the patient. it is not costly. it's part of the standard of care regardless. we would definitely recommend it. >> reporter: doctors recommend that women who are pregnant or becoming -- or planning to become pregnant take 400 micrograms of folic acid a day. it's found in foods, including leafy vegetables, citrus fruits and whole grains but most women don't get enough through food alone. danetia has been taking supplements since trying to get pregnant with her first child. she's also trying to get more sleep and cut down on stre

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health departments, meaning fewer children received immunizations, fewer pregnant women received prenatalre and fewer diabetics received comprehensive care. and we cut agencies that help our senior citizens. in one agency alone, the number of meals delivered was reduced by almost 300,000. i could go on and on. but, now that we're emerging from the recession, it's time to repair the worst of this damage, rebuild those programs we never wanted to cut, and reinvest in our future. but where will the money come from? well, some say we don't need to do anything, because a growing economy and the accompanying revenue will be enough to both pay the bills and create a stronger kentucky. my friends, with all due respect, that is simply not reality -- and the math shows it. yes, the economy and our revenues are projected to grow, but not fast enough to even keep up with expenses, much less to address fundamental weaknesses. secretary of the cabinet mary lassiter, who has been putting together state budgets for 15 years, testified in great detail yesterday before a joint meeting of the appropriations

so i have a patient who has chosen to either no show or be late, sometimes hours, for all of her prenatal visits, ultrasounds, nsts. she is now three hours late for her induction. may i show up late for her delivery? that's from the doctor. doesn't ever name the patient. >> right. she's been reprimanded, of course. >> she didn't mean to post it publicly. it was supposed to be a private posting and somehow it got out there publicly. >> that's the danger with social media. we've seen those before that didn't mean to post it. have you to have some privacy, i think. >> i have a much bigger issue. you're almost there, honey. who is showing up three hours late to give birth? >> come on. >> i would show up three months early. at that point you're like, please, please, take the baby. >> obviously this is somebody who was very frustrated with a patient. obviously tongue in cheek. i don't know if it was that horrible. >> didn't name the patient. confirmed this this physician's comments did not represent a breach of privacy laws, they were not inappropriate. reprimanded not hired. >> all i know i ha

is absolutely you are in the right place, we don't take good enough care of kids and especially prenatallyl: we treat babies like garbage not the individual parents but the state of america treats babies like garbage. 30 seconds, dr. walsh. >> you are going to put them in the foster care system, bill? >> bill: i would take this baby away from this woman and i drug test the woman until she was clean. then maybe -- >> -- where are you going to put the baby? you are going to tear up the family. >> bill: better off. >> tear up the family. >> that's the big question. >> bill: under a drug addicted woman, period. >> come with me sometime and visit a foster family. >> bill: what do you think i was born yesterday? don't give me any of that. i knew 10 times as much as b. this as you do. i have seen it. i have been there. >> i beg to differ, mr. o'reilly. >> bill: you are nuts. a crack addicted mother has no legal right to it ingest cocaine into that baby's system, period. and if you don't get that, there is something the matter with you. >> this is fabulous. >> billie, sadly in new jersey, she abso

there were women in this study who took prenatal folic acid and had a child affected with autism. >> folic acid is proven to reduce risk of birth defects, including spina bifida. >>> another photo controversy. italian tabloid has just published pictures of a pregnant princess kate in a bikini on vacation. the photos were reportedly taken while the duke and duchess were visiting the caribbean islands. it's one of several magazines that published a spread of topless photos of princess kate last september. the royal family is disappointed with the new photos and it is a breach of privacy. >>> it is now 5:21. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. let's check in with tom kierein. tom? >> you don't need an umbrella now. but you might by the time you come home from work and school later today. right now we have increasing clouds by 6:00 a.m. we'll be hovering near the freezing mark. by mid-morning, ought to be in the low 40s by noontime. should be in the mid-40s and cloudy. then it's during the afternoon hours, we'll get light rain developing and hold steady in the 40s. tonight, that rain

will were women in this study who took prenatal folic acid and went on to have a child affected withism. >> reporter: food supply is fortified with folic acid. but experts say many women may not be getting enough in their diet to make a difference. and they say that there's no downside to taking the supplement. >> to me this is a month-brainer and a win-win proposition. it is good the mother and good for the fetus. you can't ask for anything better than that. >> reporter: erika edwards, news4. >>> chris brown steps in while a virginia police chief steps down. how they both could be linked to virginia. >>> i'm julie carey in the mt. vernon area. fairfax county, talk about a bad day on the job. a crane topples on a church. what the crane operator did to make sure the two guys in the >>> accusations that chris brown faked his muncie service hours in virginia may have forced richmond's top cop to resign 37 keith russell is in the newsroom with more on this controversy. >> it was a bombshell announcement this morning. the mayor in rip monday reached a mutual agreement with chief brian nor

is absolutely you are in the right place, we don't take good enough care of kids and especially prenatallybabies like garbage not the individual parents but the state of america treats babies like garbage. 30 seconds, dr. walsh. >> you are going to put them in the foster care system, bill? >> bill: i would take this baby away from this woman and i drug test the woman until she was clean. then maybe -- >> -- where are you going to put the baby? you are going to tear up the family. >> bill: better off. >> tear up the family. >> that's the big question. >> bill: under a drug addicted woman, period. >> come with me sometime and visit a foster family. >> bill: what do you think i was born yesterday? don't give me any of that. i knew 10 times as much as b. this as you do. i have seen it. i have been there. >> i beg to differ, mr. o'reilly. >> bill: you are nuts. a crack addicted mother has no legal right to it ingest cocaine into that baby's system, period. and if you don't get that, there is something the matter with you. >> this is fabulous. >> billie, sadly in new jersey, she absolutely does.

psychotropic, prenatal, even cold medicine. the inmates have long considered health care to be one of valley state's biggest problems. despite being fully operational on our first visit in 2000, the facilities were understaffed and overburdened. there were less than ten physicians to care for more than 3,500 inmates. >> the medical care here sucks. >> medical sucks. >> medical sucks. >> we need better medical. >> i've been here eight years and never had a physical. they won't give me a physical. they said because i'm young and i'm healthy, i don't need a physical. >> because of standards that are set by the community, there has been a significant increase in funding for the health care services for women and we have been able to add to our staff both in terms of physicians, nursing, mental health staff. is it still -- no. do we have enough staff? no. do we have vacancy issues and problems we're working with? yes. but we are significantly better off in terms of our ability to deliver quality standard of care today than we were a

. >> reporter: she takes a prenatal multivitamin, with folic acid. a new study looked at 85,000 children in norway. researchers found mothers who took folic acid supplements before they conceived and during the first two months of their pregnancy, lowered their child's chances of autism 30%. >> will lead to new ways to prevent ought iistic disorders. >> reporter: it is already known to reduce the risk of spine -- brain and spine birth defects. >> is not costly. approximate is part of the standard of care, ridiculous. so we would televisionally recommend it. >> reporter: doctors recommend that pregnant women and women trying to get pregnant, take 400 grams of folic acid a day. that's the typical amount in folic acid. >> we put a lot of focus on healthiness, being healthy, taking the right vitamins, eating well. >> reporter: she's also trying to cut -- get more sleep and cut down on stress to make sure she has a healthy baby. in new york, alison harmelin, wjz eyewitness news. >> the study did not find a link between folic acid and asberger's syndrome.

posting so i have a patient who has chose ton either no show or be late sometimes hours for all her prenatal ultrasounds and nsts. she is now three hours late for her induction may i show up late to her delivery. that made some of the hospital's moms to be mad and they are calling for the doctor to be fired but the hospital says the doctor didn't break any hospital laws. should the doctor be fired or not? on her side report patient side. by the way, what are your favorite tweets and posts of the day? who caught your attention on twitter and facebook. follow me on twin cities ite ta wire. coming up, last call. governor chris christi ed governor chris christi ed taking [ male announcer ] red lobster is hitting the streets to tell real people about our new 15 under $15 menu! oh my goodness... oh my gosh, this looks amazing... [ male announcer ] 15 entrees under $15! it's o new maine stays! seafood, chicken, and more! h! the tilapia with roast vegables. i'actually looking at the od grilled chicken with portobello wine sauce. that pork chop was great. no more fast food friday's. we're going to go

posting so i have a patient who has chose ton either no show or be late sometimes hours for all her prenatalasounds and nsts. she is now three hours late for her induction may i show up late to her delivery. that made some of the hospital's moms to be mad and they are calling for the doctor to be fired but the hospital says the doctor didn't break any hospital laws. should the doctor be fired or not? on her side report patient side. by the way, what are your favorite tweets and posts of the day? who caught your attention on twitter and facebook. follow me on twin cities ite ta wire. coming up, last call. governor chris christi ed taking on david letterman. who got the last laugh? you will see for yourself. that's next. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. [ male announcer ] when it comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. our financial advice is geared specifically t

health care that they need to get contraception or safe and legal abortion, or for that matter, prenatal care and family planning if they choose to have a family. you know, i think that there is infighting within the catholic sect that is really not our business to get involved in. that's going to play itself out however it plays itself out. we are pleased that the new rules make sure that there is not a single woman that would have been covered otherwise that will not continue to be covered, and, you know, back to ryan's point about sort of playing fast and loose with the facts, one of the things that folks need to realize, particularly when you start looking at private businesses who want to dabble in this playing father to their employees, is this not only is an issue of equality for women and empowerment for women, it's an issue of economic commonsense, right? the insurance companies know this. the more that women have access to contraception, the more unintended pregnancies go down, which costs the economy. squared knows more about this than i do, but it's commonsense. >> and just i

>> we no longer provide prenatal services. we closed the outpatient oncology program. contract for outpatient dialysis. we closed the dedicated high risk obstetrical unit that we had. and we stopped doing outpatient mammography. >> we were there when the women's cancer clinic closed. >> it's like, you know, a sharp pain. i can't--i have to go, like, lay down. i can't move. >> dr. nick spiratos treats ovarian and uterine cancers. >> take care. it's been great working with you. >> when the hospital first informed you that the outpatient oncology clinic was going to close, what did you think? >> how can you do this to cancer patients? they're dying. if we don't provide them care, their outcome is guaranteed. they're going to die. [hissing] >> we spoke to several of those patients. roy scales, a laid off security guard with lung cancer, went to the hospital and got the news in person. >> i walked in. the lady looked down and said "well, i don't see anything down here for you." then she looked in the computer, and she said, "oh, you were supposed to have an oncology today,

is absolutely you are in the right place, we don't take good enough care of kids and especially prenatallyes like garbage not the individual parents but the state of america treats babies like garbage. 30 seconds, dr. walsh. >> you are going to put them in the foster care system, bill? >> bill: i would take this baby away from this woman and i drug test the woman until she was clean. then maybe -- >> -- where are you going to put the baby? you are going to tear up the family. >> bill: better off. >> tear up the family. >> that's the big question. >> bill: under a drug addicted woman, period. >> come with me sometime and visit a foster family. >> bill: what do you think i was born yesterday? don't give me any of that. i knew 10 times as much as b. this as you do. i have seen it. i have been there. >> i beg to differ, mr. o'reilly. >> bill: you are nuts. a crack addicted mother has no legal right to it ingest cocaine into that baby's system, period. and if you don't get that, there is something the matter with you. >> this is fabulous. >> billie, sadly in new jersey, she absolutely does. cha

yeah, if both parents are carriers and then we do proceed with the prenatal diagnosis, and if the fetus is found to have the two mutations, and therefore we say, this fetus is affected. to find out if the fetus is affected, a physician collects a sample of amniotic fluid from the womb. both the fluid and the fetal cells it contains are then analyzed for biochemical or chromosomal defects. if the fetus has the disease or will show the disease in childhood or after birth, then we have a number of options. we can do nothing, and some parents-- it's interesting-- even though at the start of the testing they say, "yes, we want this test because we don't want to have a child with this disease." once they're actually in mid-point of the pregnancy, some of them change their mind and decide they just can't go through with the tnation, and th's froth ot will choose to terminate if it's an especially bad disease with little or no effective treatment. and then in more recent years, of course, there's the option to do some kind of therapy, even in utero gene therapy. i'd say much of this is still in

i take vitamins that are equal to, if not better than prenatals, so i was set up for that. the most important thing is the folic acid so that was in place. caffeine i had already cut out of my system a couple years ago so that was easy. but alcohol, definitely, you know, came to a halt, because we are social drinkers and we do love wine tasting and things of that nature. so... it'll come back. overindulgence is not going to work, whether we eat too much red meat, even though it's good for iron, if we eat too much of anything, it's not going to be good for us. so again, use logic in deciding how you handle your pregnancy. i needn't tell you, i needn't tell anybody that alcohol's not going to be good in pregnancy. i needn't tell anyone that using illicit drugs is not going to be healthy for your pregnancy. because ultimately that baby, if the mom uses regularly enough and in high enough quantity, the baby will become dependent on the drug in the same way that an adult would. in the wall of the lining of the uterus, there's a hormone that plays a very important role in the dev

book is that we need to be very modest i think in our goals and very modest in our ambition to have prenatal policies. the first rule is whatever you do you should do it for the long-haul and that is the success of the nordic countries and france. having delved down to the lowest low of 1.3 the ec in germany. so that this speaks to a culture that values the family and values children. but the other thing to do i think is to try to instead of incentivizing childbirth and instead of trying to bribe people into having kids that they don't want, what you really would like to do is remove the road box that exist for the people who are do you want children and to the extent that you can do that through policies which may not on their face be explicitly pronatalist, if you build more highways you improve access from the suburbs to the cities and make it easier for parents to get back and forth to their jobs than what you you can do as you can gradually make it a little bit easier for people who want to have children to go ahead and achieve their ideal fertility numbers and over the long-haul -- >>

so everything from prenatal care everything from prenatal care to end-of-life care and everything in between is their responsibility, regardless of whether they personally delivered day care or it happens somewhere else in the system. that's a very different mindset, and leads to very different behaviors and relationships and staffing models and conditioning engagement models from them all models from them officers were only responsible for the patient was in front of you at this moment, that you will bill for and then they will be on their way. so creating that kind of longitudinal accountability is one very important difference of the model. a second very important difference of the model is that it is based on a global budget for that population. and they are shared savings and there's also risks. there's all kinds of protection so that that is not an unreasonable risk and the budgets are set in a way that is accounted for that patient population and what's been spent to take care of them up to that point under the fee-for-service model. so that the provider begins knowing that th

it must start with prenatal care, head start and day care on the front side.lfare on the backside. ashley: that was the reverend jesse jackson speaking out on education. tracy: we have breaking news now for you. "wall street journal" reporting that time warner cable ceo glenn britt will step down at year's end the source says the stock is down, the stock is down two third of a percent again. time warner cable ceo glenn britt stepping down according to "the wall street journal.". hmmm. >>> all right. we have automakers turning some heads with their january sales. ashley: yeah. tracy: even auto expert rebecca lindland says she is amazed by some of them. she is our guest next. ashley: everyone wants a new car. let's look at the winners and losers with the dow the big winner. here are other companies that are moving higher. we'll be right back. ♪ ashley: here it is. half past the hour. tequila to the dow 30, a sea of green with one lone red stock. the drug sector, the only one. the dow, well above 14,000. as to take a look at the new york stock exchange where nico

. >> it's great to take while you're pregnant, it's in prenatal vitamins and shown to prevent neuralefects when your nervous system is forming as a fetus, folate helps you, it works on your cells, responsible for growth, a tremendous vitamin, vitamin b. folic acid is the supplement. find it in regular food, green leavey vegetables, peas, eggs, fortified cereals, you might not need that if you're not pregnant. but if you're pregnant you need that before the study came along. the study at norway looked at 85,000 people over-- >> children. >> children. >> megyn: incredible. >> found that of 270 who had ti mothers were 40% more likely not to be taking folic acid. 40% more likely not to be taking, megyn, that's not proof. that doesn't mean if you take folic acid you're not going to have the problem or if you don't take it you're going to have the problem, it's not proof, but it's accumulating evidence as you might say as the judge. it's accumulating evidence, and autism is a problem with socialization skills and clearly in your logically based and another study from norway showed language

so everything from prenatal care and end-of-life care and everything in between is their responsibility, regardless of whether they personally deliver the care or it happens elsewhere in the system. that's very different mindset, and leads to very different behaviors and relationships and staffing models. from a model that says you're only responsible for the patient who was in front of you this moment, that you will build for and then they will be on their way. so creating that kind of longitudinal accountability is one very important difference of the model. a second very important difference of the model is that it's based on a global budget for the population. and to our shared savings and there's also risks. there are all kinds of protections so that that is a reasonable risk and the budgets are set anyway that is accounting for that patient population and what's been spent to take care of them up to that point under fee-for-service model. so that the provider begins knowing that they've all the resources that they have a day before, but now they have an incentive to try to figure