sanjay gupta. our ears are made up of three main parts, the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. the smallest bones in our body are actually located in our middle ear. they're called and transmit sounds to the inner ear. while some people are born profoundly deaf hearing loss for many people happens over time. from reasons like disease, age, or damage to the auditory system. but deafness doesn't stop people like derrick coleman. he was a super bowl champion breaking down the sound barrier. saturday morning on a military base outside tacoma, washington. 450 kids. dozens of coaches and three professional football players from the nfl have all gathered for a camp. derrick coleman is a fullback for the seattle seahawks. he also holds a unique place in the nfl record books that has nothing to do with touchdowns scored or yards gained. derrick is the third deaf player in nfl history and the first to play offense in the league. >> on the field, normal people range seven, eight, nine. without my h

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sanjay gupta, and this is "vital signs." right now we're on the usns comfort, part of the mission called continuing promise. in fact, we're in jamaica. this is the third of 11 stops that will take place the next seven months. marlene maxwell hopes to be one of those patients. she's passionate about her family and her faith. she's been dealing with an inactive thyroid. marlene says the health care in jamaica is good. if you can get it. >> well, i would say it's good health care, but it's just a time plan. you wait longer. >> in jamaica, nearly half the population lives in the southeast region of the country. that includes the capital city of kingston. a population boom has put a big strain on the health infrastructure here. not enough doctors. not enough resources or operating rooms. it all means less urgent operations like marlene's to remove her thyroid get moved down the priority list. she's been waiting to have this operation for three years. >> presently, i'm not on any medication. you know, so the appointment -- apparen

sanjay gupta.the players who donated brains to be studied upon their deaths already had concerns about cte while they were alive. it is possible the results of the study are skewed. right now cte can only be diagnosed after death. >>> best selling novelist jackie collins has passed away. her publicist said she died of breast cancer. she was diagnosed 6 1/2 years ago at stage 4 and kept it largely private. she's known for scintillating tales of royalty and super wealthy. she was a trailblazer for women in fiction. something she talked about on cnn four years ago. >> women have to look after themselves. they have to have a career, they have to have a passion in life and they cannot live their life just through a man. i think that's so important. my message is girls can do anything. because i fell will from school at 15. i've achieved all this by myself. i think that's a good message to women. >> huge achievements. she had 30 new york times best sellers. jackie collins was 77 years old. >>> still to c

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our medical correspondent, sanjay gupta, spent some time with the researchers. >> reporter: first oftic een encephalopathy is not something we even knew about until seven or eight years ago. studies began in 2008. i visited the lab in 2011 where the science was taking place where they were examining the brains of former nfl players and other people, as well. this most recent study says 96% of people whose brains were examined had evidence of the cte. i want to make something clear. these were people who probably during their lives worried that something was wrong and donated -- had their brains donated to science after they died. there was already some concern about it. this is no way to suggest that 96% of all nfl players will develop cte. there is obviously a lot of science here. when you look at the brains of these people, what they found were protein deposits that were very similar again to what you might see with alzheimer's disease. in life, these people often had anger issues, depression, and memory loss. those are the three sort of symptoms people afternoon developed. it was

sanjay gupta, thank you so much. libu and a beautiful setting is there to compete in cnn fit nation triathlon which he is predicted to win. so good luck, sanjay. >> you're next here, john. >> yeah, right. >>> eight nfl players suffer concussions in the first week, in the very first week of the regular season. so just think how many hits a pro athlete takes in a lifetime all the way back to the earliest days playing as children in peewee leagues. now a robot perhaps can prevent helmet to helmet contact. >> violence on the gridiron, glam glamourized in movies. hall of fame running back tony dorsett took this heavy blow in 1984. >> my explanation was it's like a freight train hitting a volkswagen. >> now a high-tech game changer called the mvp, mobile virtual player, the brain child of dartmouth engineering students and head football coach. >> just as close as you can get short of tackling a real person. >> a robot with speed. >> we've clocked in, you know, five-second 40-yard dash. >> capable of moving forward, backward

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sanjay gupta has the hard facts on what cte can do. >> well, first of all, cte, chronic traumatic enacceptch we have no treatment, no cure, and not something we even knew about until a few years ago. i had a chance to visit the lab in 2011 where the science was taking place, where they were examining the brains of former nfl players and other people as well. now, this most recent study says that 96% of people whose brains were examined had evidence of this cte. now, i want to make something clear here. these were people who probably during their lives worried that something was wrong and donated and had their brains donated to science after they died. so there was already some concern about it. there's no way to suggest that 96% of all nfl players will develop cte. but there is obviously a lot of science here. and when you look at the brains of these people, what they found were these protein deposits that were very similar, again, to what you might see with alzheimer's disease. in life, these people often had anger issues, depression, and memory loss. those were the three -- the sort of c

sanjay gupta.rly fiorina has had to deal with with regard to this child. what is the story there? >> she wrote about this in her book recently. but it's not a widely known story. she's talking about her daughter lori, who in her mid-30s pass wad from an overdose. it sounds like the story was she was someone who began drinking alcohol in college. worked in pharmaceutical sales after that and began really taking prescription drugs and abusing them. she had been in and out of rehab and she writes this heartbreaking story when she found out that her daughter passed away. she was 3,000 miles away at the time. it's tough for anybody to hear, but that's the story that she's referring to. she's she's used it to really talk about the idea of decriminalizing drug addiction as well, which is something again that she's spoken about quite a bit. >> so that was something that came up. i mean, yes, we played the jeb bush sound bite and the tweet re-tweeted around the whole sorry mom. but it became a pretty seriou

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sanjay gupta has done a lot of research on this.owledge of cte, what's your take on the study? >> 96%, it's going to be staggering to a lot of people and r for good reason. 96% of the brains of former nfl players showing evidence of this disease, which most people had never heard of a few years ago. we visited the lab where this research has been going on. the research has been going on since 2008. we saw firsthand how they are actually looking at these brains and trying to determine do they they have the signs of cte, which are similar to alzheimer's disease. . these people developing early onset alzheimer's. i do want to point out an important caveat. that is that what happened in these cases is players were concerned while they were still living they may have developed some symptoms are the ones who had had them donated to the lab. i point that out to say it's a selective group of people. but still it's a significant number and they have seven years worth of data. >> you talked about taking it from professional athletes down to p

sanjay gupta, cnn's chief medical correspondent. id not look like he was going to be backing down then after he sparked shock and outrage over this price increase, and now he says he's going to make it more affordable so they can break even or make a small profit. what's your reaction to that? >> you know, i'm mystified and horrified at the same exact time. i don't know, you know, kate, it's interesting because we don't know what the price reduction is going to be. >> right. >> somehow he saw that 5,000% increase in price was justifiable, so we have to see what the final number is here, but still, it's a remarkable increase that he thought it would be okay, and remarkable increase for people who dramatically need this drug and don't have another option. that part of it still remains true. >> sanjay, the price hike is just pretty unbelievable, but it's not entirely unusual this situation. he says that he thinks that they sorely need a new and better drug here. what are you hearing? >> i'm not hearing that. i mean, i know that that's h

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sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> hi, everyone. 6:00 eastern this sunday evening. i'm poppy harlow and we begin with politics. >>> first up, the presidential candidates not holding back as they prepare for the biggest event yet. just three days from now they will come face to face in similarmy valley, california at the reagan library for the second gop debate. it airs here only on cnn. inside the library right now, crew members hard at work getting the debate stage ready, next to air force one. the retired presidential plane on exhibit there. you can expect the debate to bo more contentious than the first one you saw. 15 candidates going all out on the sunday talk shows this morning. some in full attack mode. first up, donald trump center stage and dominating in the polls. >> i'm a deal maker. i will make great deals for this country. ben can't do that. ben's a doctor and he's not a deal maker. >> i'm gratified to see that so many people are actually starting to listen to what i'm saying. evaluating it on its merits, opposed to what people portrayed me as. make. >>

sanjay gupta and many other experts say there is zero evidence that vaccines cause autdism. the two doctors on that stage gave pretty weak responses to that. should they have been more forceful? >> the response from the medical community in the aftermath of the debate has been really responsive. really incredibly angry. frustrated by not only what donald trump said but also the way doctors responded. if you defer to them, they'd say that, yes, they should have countered trump more forcefully. there were statements put out by a number of medical organizations that said there is no link to autism with vaccines and also on this other point donald trump made, no purpose to changing the schedule in which children receive those vaccines. >> chris christie made a passionate statement about being named prosecutor the day before america was attacked on 9/11. here it is. >> jake, i was named u.s. attorney by president bush september 10th, 2001. and that next day my wife mary pat traveled through the world trade center and went to her office two blocks from the world trade center. and

sanjay gupta joins us. >> you heard trump, paul say they are in favor of vaccines but should be doneriod of time. is there any merit to spreading them out? >> no. there is really no merit and i say no and then pause because i don't want anybody to think there is strings attached to that. it's just no. there is no merit to it and in fact, this are possibly consequences to it. the whole point of vaccines is to prevent people from getting illnesses. if you wait longer to give the vaccines, the children are potentially exposed or vulnerable for longer and problematic every night for homes that have several small children in the house. some of the children may be vaccinated, some have been delayed now getting their vaccinations. they could potentially get sick when they didn't have to. the american pediatrics released a statement on this just after the debate last night to specifically talk about that and what they said was that there is no alternative immunization schedule delaying vaccines, on means a child is at risk for disease for a longer period of time. >> trump said he wants vacci

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sanjay gupta who is much better than just an okay doctor. he's actually a neuro surgeon.medical correspondent. you're the perfect person to ask. talk to me about what those two are arguing about. the length of time in which we give our babies those vaccinations and whether we're doing something dangerous. can you definitively tell me what that's about? >> the question is, is there any merit to spreading out childhood vaccines instead of the way we give them now on a schedule, is there any merit to sort of spreading them out. the answer is no. the answer is no. i was a little surprised that part just didn't come out to make it very clear that the answer is no. let me tell you the consequence of doing that and explain why it makes no sense to spread out vaccines. the consequences. your child who's not getting the vaccines on schedule are going to be vulnerable to certain diseases. let's say you are two small children in the house. one gets vaccinated. the other one is being spread out. they could actually get one of these infections now and spread it to other people perhaps

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sanjay gupta. according to studies out there, there is no correlation with autism but when you hear this exchange going on give us the facts, what is your reaction? >> there is no connection between vaccines and autism and i'll pause there for a second because i don't want anybody to think there are strings attached. there is no connection. there hasn't been. there was a study done earlier this year, one of the largest 96,000 children looked for correlation with autism and it simply doesn't exist. the issue they raise, as well wolf with regard to spreading out the vaccines over time really doesn't have merit, as well. i think this is a really important point. you realize this can potentially be dangerous to potentially spread out the vaccines. when you spread them out, you're defeating the purpose of the vaccines in the first place. that's a huge issue. also wolf we used to give a much larger sort of amount of vaccines sometime ago when we gave them for smallpox for example, this was a much larger

sanjay gupta that is today's human factor. >> 16-year-old was volunteering at --. i had right from the get go, how am i going to live any kind of a meaningful life going forward? >> but he did just that. he attended college. went on to harvard's kennedy school of government. and was elected a democratic congressman for the state of rhode island. motivated he says by his own desire to prove the nay sayers wrong. >> i would hear the well you are a nice guy but this is a -- business. maybe you are better off doing something else. always somebody telling my kri t can't do something that i'll find a way. >> he did find a way. >> for first time in our country's history, a pa gentlemen with the challenges he faces is presiding as speaker of the house of representatives. >> i hope that the people can look at me and say, you know, here is a guy with a tremendous challenge and difficulties but somehow he's made it. sup jj? working hard? here at the td ameritrade trader group, they work all the time. working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading app in the app store. it let

sanjay gupta shows us in today's human factor. >> growing up with cerebral palsy he had to contend withany times people will say, you can't do this, you can't do that. you won't be able to walk properly, you won't be able to talk properly. >> mitty didn't let years of physical therapy, leg braces, bullies keep him from his goal of becoming an actor. >> so many people are afraid to put these types of characters on television. having my disability makes me want to prove people wrong. to open doors not just for me but for other people. >> cerebral palsy is a term for a group of neurological disorders that prevent parts of the brain from communicating with the muscles. the result is movement. we know physical therapy can help. mitty credits years of treatment at shriner's hospital. he still volunteers there. >> when it comes to having a disability, it's not letting people define you. >> wonderful. >> yeah, great to hear him outside of the role. i've never heard him before. >>> more than ten years after shirley was gunned dmo ened dow cod. (speaking to students) this is miriam trejo. she's a