on may 31, as melanie told you, the highly esteemed conservative world health organization classified cell phones as possible carcinogens based on industry-funded studies and independent studies proving that long-term cell phone use can cause lethal brain tumors. so we have the evidence, and we have many san franciscans, including children, using cell phones on a daily basis. and they are unaware that the sec and manufacturers are hiding in tiny print in the back of the cell phone manual not to hold the phone to the body. this is information that everyone should have the right to know. you are doing the right thing, and since my husband was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at treated by experts to his long-term cell phone use, i have been touched deeply by hearing from -- i cannot even tell you have many. i have a list of close to 1000 victims of this, and it is just devastating. these people did not have the right to know, and i would appreciate if you would vote yes and take this to the board of supervisors, and i thank you so much. supervisor avalos: thank you for your commen

there has been no conclusive evidence out there from anyone, including the world health organization, and i do not feel to be in the place of the city and county of san francisco. this would be one of the first in the nation. this is what we let congress and our senators for to come to washington, this should not be done on a local level, that is what i cannot support this. >> i would like to respond. i don't believe we're regulating the phones. there is no regulation whatsoever. i don't think it falls in the same per view but i do respect your point of view. thank you. >> is it the department of the varmint that also fits or is this from supervisor avalos or his office? >> this was supported by supervisor avalos. >> my concern is that i don't want to repeat the point, but i think that this is a little bit onerous that they have to issue a flyer with each and every sale of the cell phone to a customer who was coming in. it is -- the other substances are products we get. we put the onus on the manufacturer. as an example, smoking. it ut

third, in its june updated fact sheet on this issue, the world health organization concluded that there was no adverse health effect caused by mobile phone use. rather than providing information to consumers about products, this proposal is the clear message considered by this issue. these devices being safe for consumer use. as such it does not mean a fundamental purpose of consumer product information, which is to better inform consumers about the products. instead it is a contradiction to establish levels challenging the efficacy of the u.s. government's determination on a wireless device safety. as noted by the fcc, some parties to recommend taking measures to further reduce exposure to this energy. the sec does not endorse the need for this practice. the federal government's jurisdiction over radio communications is predicated on a finding that national regulation is appropriate and essential. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. supervisor mar: thank you for your testimony. let me ask a question to the industry. i know that many local activists appointed clinton to a number of

i was just thinking about the, the world health movement, this is a not a us phenomenon either, it's, it's cross-national. the world health organization did a study in, in the late '90s across 14 different countries, looking at 18 of the most stigmatized conditions, including drug and alcohol addiction. so they had things like being homeless, being a criminal, being hiv- positive, all these very heavily stigmatized conditions. and what they found, cross-nationally, drug addiction was number one, alcohol addiction was number four, so two of the top four were the most stigmatized conditions cross-nationally. and stigma, and, and that surprised me. i mean obviously we all know that these conditions are very stigmatized, just how stigmatized, i didn't realize, that they, they would come top of that list. so that was very surprising to me. so what we're dealing with is possibly and probably the most stigmatized of all social problems, if you frame them, put it in that framework. and i think importantly, there were two factors that i see moderate stigma. one is cause and the other is controllability. cause being, it's their fault. controlla

the federal law says meat is not considered a health threat until it is directly linked to the illness. >>> meanwhile health experts say the global swine flu pandemic is over. the world health organization says several reports show that the h1n1 virus has run its course but the virus has not gone completely. health experts say it will now act more like a seasonal flu. >>> 4:55 now. and a new york icon will close for a multi-million dollar makeover. the statue of liberty renovations will last a year starting on october 29th. crews will upgrade fire systems, elevators and bathroom. liberty island will be open during the construction. a majority of visits don't climb inside the statue. they just want to take a picture with it. >>> it was once filled with water, mold and tens of thousands of evacuees. but the makeover at the louisiana superdome is done. state and city officials showed off the new stadium yesterday with the new improvements. seats replaced, luxury seats added, the saint locker room twice the original size. the $336 million project began after hurricane katrina wreaked havoc on the building in 2005. >> we have a little football game there tomorrow night, 49ers and saints righ

the world health organization reported recently that a 6-year-old cambodian girl died from avian influenza. the agriculture organization issued a statement calling on the international community to increase surveillance and preparedness for a possible outbreak. experts are especially concerned because of a variant found in vietnam and china that seems to sidest sidestep vaccines. the disease has killed 531 people around the world since it was first detected in 2003 according to figures from the who. experts say five of the six countries where the virus is especially entrenched are in asia. the places most at risk are vietnam, indonesia, bangladesh, india, and china as well as egypt. >>> in cambodia a trial of genocide has run into problems. the age of the four defendants is raising questions about whether a judgment can ever be reached. >> reporter: the brutal regime was established in the mid-1970s in the war-torn indochina peninsula. it is accused of slaughtering more than 1.7 million people through forced labor and mass killings. the tribunal set up by the united nations and the cambodi

is the alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test, which was developed by the world health organization. well, we use the assist results in intervention planning quite immediately; that is part of the beauty of the assist, that it has kind of a built-in intervention that, based on the score that is deduced from the eight questions of the assist, you are kind of guided to do a validating response, a brief intervention, or an intervention with kind of a referral to treatment or a discussion about kind of getting further treatment. and in that assist they'll provide much more detailed information on their pattern of usage of various substances. we have a fair amount of detail that we end up with as a result of their completing the computerized assist. one of the things we use with the assist results is kind of looking at how maybe the substance use is impacting the current... their presenting issues. if it is depression or anxiety, maybe how the substance use is exacerbating that, and we will give some education about that, the risk factors, and then we will also explore the consequences w

romney would do to strengthen it. >>> somali is facing a cholera epidemic pay cording to the world health organizationeds have traveled to mogadishu looking for food. they are living in refugee camps with no clean water or sanitation. rock star bono is calling on the world to help. >> people seem to prefer watching people in the high streets of london fight policemen rather than watching children of somali fighting for their lives. >> the united nations said half of the 4 million somali children are at risk. president obama has aproved an extra $105 million in u.s. aid on top of the $500 million already approved this year. >>> overnight we learned about the deaths of two more nato members in afghanistan. they died in separate attacks yesterday. one was a french soldier. the other's nationality is still unnoafnlt five american soldiers were killed yesterday in a separate insurgent atack into no more crosses will be added to the hillside memorial in laugh yacht. for the mast five years people have been adding white crosses. the final one was hammered in this week. organizers of the project said it has b

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in may of this year, there was the annual conference of the world health organization at its headquarters in vienna. there are over 190 countries that are members of the w.h.o.. the united states had as one of its objectives at that meeting to tighten down on one of the most lethal and feral and potential pathogens for a biological weapon of mass destruction, smallpox. many of us would think that smallpox has been eradicated. many of us probably have a little scar on our arm, as i do that there may be younger people here who didn't get vaccinated because the feeling that this was no longer necessary. the resolution of the united states put before the w.h.o. said that all of the countries membership had to do one of two things, either declare that they were smallpox free, that is they had no smallpox that was being used for medical or scientific research or any other purpose. and two, they could not make that declaration and the united states would have been one of those that could not make that declaration, because we have smallpox and several of our laboratories, that we would commit tha

reporter: if they fail, and resistance develops yet again, the result in the words of the world health organizatione catastrophic. gary striker, global health front line news for cnn. >>> and if you would like to help any of the victims of the famine or help the fight against malaria, go to our special impact your world website and we have direct links to legitimate organizations working to help. that's all at cnn.com/impact. do take a look. >>> medical workers treating malaria patients in places like kenya and cambodia are putting themselves at risk. many travel to the front lines of wars to save as many lives as they can. cnn's atika shubert reports, those health workers may face more risks today than in the past. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: the libyan rebel fighter collapses to the ground during a fire fight in misrata. shrapnel has ripped through an artery in his leg and he's rapidly losing blood. he's dragged into an abandoned building that doubles as an emergency operating theater. as medics battle to save the man's life, they come under fire again. the patient dies moments after being smuggled

the organisms refreeved. our findings were significant but did not determine what initially made think infants sick. most of them developed serious enphoenixes within the first month of life, nia natal accept sis. the world health organization estimates that infections lead to the death of 1.6 million newborn infants each year. the majority in subsaharan africa and southern asia. the bacteria in the developing world appear different from those in the u.s. and most of the cultured results from septic african neonates have failed to grow out organisms in any lab rah tir. we began a study last yore of neonatal accept sis at one of the -- uganda's major referral hospitals. last year we recruited 8 0 mother-infant pairs in a partnership with their head pediatrician correcting -- collecting spinal fluid and blood if the babies and birth canal specimens from the mothers. we're now collaborating with the venter institute near washington, d.c. to perform an exhaustive sequencing of the bacterial and viral content of these samples. since cure treats all the hydrocephalus that develops in patients, once we studied a sufficient numb of patients with neonatal accept sit we will know which infections lead to hydrocephalus tr

i recently attended the world health organization. their report on disability. many things were mentioned. the infection of the children was not among the things that were talked about in the port. i think it is something that needs to be brought to the attention of the kinds of bodies that are able to find work in this area. >> i think you are doing an enormous service for those children and their families. have the gates foundation or the one campaign or the other notable charities, have they joined in? >> and not yet. with regards to the cbc, what is the acceptance of that domestically in? can you prepare the costs of shut intervention to that which you have affected and created. >> etv has been done for quite some time. it was not very successful in babies under a year of age. it was rarely done and still is not done that often. they try to avoid shut the pennants in babies from the very beginning. we added an old idea, which had been practiced a number of years ago, before shunts were an idea on how to treat hydrocephalus. it is to reduce the tissue that mak

the streets here organizing checkpoints on the roads to. check all the cars but of course they're concerned that. their phones are not enough to improve the situation meanwhile what we're hearing from world health organization and the u.n. they expect to send humanitarian aid and maybe weeks happen that will help improve the situation here in tripoli and he said. art is room for national live from tripoli will continue to track developments there in the capital as these events unfold maria thanks for that update. british m.p. very gardener from the main opposition labor party says helping the rebels with their ground assault went way beyond the terms of the un resolution on libya you can watch his full interview in just over twenty minutes but here's a preview. it was very clear in the original un resolution it was very clear when our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no little creation force one of the things that troubled me all was this speaker can reasonably say as to whether there should be any troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we would go they go they go left these instructions being yelled up by obviously british soldiers british personn

i recently attended the world health organization roll out of their report on disability. and many things were mentioned in that report. but hydrocephalus and the infection of these children were not among the thing that is are talked about in that report. so i think that it is something that just needs to be brought of to the attention of the kind of bodies that are able to find work in this area. >> which is what you are doing, which is an enormous service to the children and parents and siblings. if i could, has the gates foundation or one campaign or any of the other laudable and noble charities, have they joined in as far as you know,? >> not yet. >> not yet. okay. let me ask, with regard to the evpcpc, what is that in the united states? could you compare the cost of shunt, versus the procedure you created? : >> the idea of combines both procedures was to avoid the constructive problems with the hydrocephalus, by passing the fluid from the brain, allowing exit for that, and also addressing a communicating hydrocephalus which is leftover in babies, and they can't handle

implementation plan orchestrated by the canned bar public health they will benefit from an in the of a number of input departments, kandahar university, the world health organization and the a.i.d. among others. there will be construction on a new business park is more than 50% complete and local business men and women are buying into it at least 15 business plans have already been submitted to the afghan support agency. similarly combined u.s. military efforts are providing electricity to support a growing industrial park in sharif. this is not to say there aren't challenges to governance and government as we move forward. as you're aware, last month, several areas went around a successful transition from isaf to the afghan government. as security improves across the country and more provinces transition and assume their own control each will have new circumstances to require tailored circumstances at the provincial and district levels at that end our own forestructure must adapt. it's now more than important than ever that provincial reconstruction teams, civil agencies, the international community and nongovernmental organizations in afghanistan all coordinate

deployed medical supplies close to where they're needed and have now released them to the world health organizationin the coming days, it will be important to make sure that the communications networks, the electricity, the power supplies, fuel and water are maintained or repaired when they need to be. the national transitional council have been planning for this for months and we have been helping with that work. diplomatically, we have a strong mission already in ben-ghazi consisting of foreign military aid office and we'll establish office in tripoli as soon as we're able to do so, this will include stabilization efforts that have been planning with this effort for months. at the united nations, we'll be taking early action in the security council to give the new libyan authorities the legal diplomatic, political and financial support they require. we will soon be able to release the frozen assets that belong to the libyan people. the foreign secretary is returning to the u.k. and with the deputy prime minister, the defense secretary and the development secretary, they will coordinate our effort

the world health organization and the american cancer society both, after reviewing all of the evidencentake. not saying don't ever eat them but you want to occasionally splurge at a ball game. >> if you're going to eat them, especially at home and you have the choice at the supermarket, there are options better than others. >> that's right. you want to go for brands that on the label says either reduced fat or light or fat free and watch the sodium. ideally under 500 milligrams. i found good brands. applegate farms have both a beef version and turkey version. people like them, too. the boar's head. >> when you talk about light, light in fat? >> yes. the fat is reduced. again, you still have to make sure that the sodium is not an issue. all of these brands are under 500 milligram 'this is a ballpark light franks. these are made with a combination of beef, turkey, and pork. these are turkey dogs, jenny-o. and these are turkey dogs. people like them. fall into a much better category. >> you have creative ways to eat hot dogs to give a boost in terms of nutritional value. >> try to satisfy

the full opportunity to reach their highest attainable standard of health. when we think of health we think of a concept defined by the world -- world health organization, health is a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. also on a personal level as a korean-american and is a son of immigrants. i often tell my colleagues and friends that my parents journeyed to this country a generation ago, searching for -- our lives reflect the american dream. i remember so clearly being raised in hearing from my parents every day how lucky we were to be born in this country, how fortunate we were to speak english as our first language, how blessed we were to enjoy rights and freedom and how it was our special responsibility to live a life of higher purpose stronger. my mother received her ph.d. from boston university. and dr. king received an honorary degree from boston university in the same ceremony. with respect to public health and health care,, some could say that we are facing this mountain of despair. there are many dead and obstacles. with respect to insurance coverage, we have too many millions

. >>> uno -- in our health watch, babies in the united states have a higher risk of dying in their first month of life. researchers at world health organization estimate the newborn mortality rates of more than 200 countries over the last 20 years. the results -- show that while newborn mortality rates have decreased, progress has been slow. in 2009, here are the numbers. estimated 3.3 million babies in the united states, died during their first month of life. that's compared with 4.6 million in 1990. newborn deaths could be reduced by as much as a third with simple preventative measures. >> if you want to lose the annoying belly fat or get rid of the nagging love handles, lifting weights may not be the answer. the remedy. jogging. health researchers from duke found medical centers, aerobic exercise is better than resistance training if you want to lose fat around your midsection. jogging significantly reduces visceral and liver fat, lowering risks of heart disease and diabetes. with 2/3 of the american population overweight, aerobic exercise they say is the way to go. >> i notice when jessica was reading the love hands she looked at us. >> i

the water with his clothes on. camera is always rolling. >>> well, now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines on msnbc.com. a world health organization report shows babies in the u.s. have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than babies born in 40 other countries. some of the countries ranking better? south korea, cuba, malaysia, lithuania, poland and israel. over 20 years the u.s. has dropped from 28th to 41st and is now tied with qatar, croatia and the united arab emirates. for more information on this and other health stories, check out the health page on msnbc.com. >> "early today" health is brought to you by vagisil wash. the confident clean. >>> now here's how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,559 after adding 20 points yesterday. the s&p gained 2 points. the nasdaq was up 14. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei inched up one point, while in hong kong the hang seng rose 330. a nosedive in consumer confidence was offset on wall street tuesday with renewed hope for economic stimulus from the fed. a volatile day of trading ended higher after minutes from the

the 100 highest paid u.s. krechceos earned more than they paid in federal taxes. many companies also spent more on lobbying than they did on taxes. >>> in health news this morning, a world health organizationeport shows babies in the u.s. have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than babies born in 40 other countries. some of the countries ranking better, south korea, cuba, malaysia, lithuanilithuania, po israel. the u.s. has dropped from 28th to 41st and is now tied with qatar, croatia and the united arab emirates. for more on this and other health stories, you can check out the health page at msnbc.com. >>> coming up, the tigers roar in extra innings. >>> the hammer comes down on the hurricanes. >>> and the oldest trophy in sports. >>> plus, last night in boston, ooh, the love affair between the yankees and the red sox was in full bloom. what's up with those red sox? come on. your first look at sports is ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] it's been a good year for the chevy silverado. and not because of the awards or the accolades. no, it was good because you told us so. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet.

the dump government is holding almost $4.5 billion and 144 million of that has been give tonight world health organizationit plans to use the funds to distribute medical supplies to the libyan people. and the swiss government holds about $823 million and plans to hand over all of that money to the libyan rebels. it's estimated banks across europe hold a total of $50 billion of libyan assets. >>> after five days of being held by gadhafi loyalists, a group of journalists got some very good news. >> they basically came over to us and they said, look, we're not going to stop you from leaving anymore. all we had to do then was arrange some kind of transport. >> our matthew chance there shows more about being held captive as libya changed outside the hotel walls. >>> to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world, welcome back to world report and our continuing coverage of the crisis in libya. i'm isha sesay at cnn center. gunfire echoes on the streets of tripoli in another day of fighting. here's the very latest for you. rebels are battling pockets of resistance in the capital as forces loyal to muammar gadha

the world. i'm very proud to have been in this organization, in the department of health & human services and athe nih during those early years when we were struggling from both a scientific and public health standpoint about how we were going to address this pandemic. i refer to it as the dark years of my professional career because unless you've done it, it is difficult to describe what it's like to have people come in who are suffering and dying, and you don't have an idea or a clue about what is going on with them. you suspect it's an infection, epidemiology tells you it's sexually transmitted. also later on injection drug use. but yet you don't know what to do with the patients except palliative care. and it was over the period of those three decades with support from so many groups here in the department, through the department at nih, through multiple administrations and multiple turnovers of congress that we had the resources to put into effect a scientific research both basic and clinical attack on this pandemic to the point where we now, 30 years into it, have the capability of really

the right thing -- eating right, exercising, not smoking. that is what this group of organized fought for. i think the affordable health care act, obama-care, will be bad for patience. if you look around the world, a government getting involved in health care, they run out of money and have to ration care. it will kill our state budget. right now, our state is doing well -- better, and not well, medicaid is continuing to grow. we want to take care of those that cannot afford health care, but at a price we can afford. it will also be a big job killer. people are worried about the cost of the affordable care act, obama-care, and that cost is making people sit back and say should i start this company or add more in place? i believe it is not constitutional. i believe we are going to win. i do not think the federal government should be telling us we have to buy a service, or what we should be doing with medicaid. they take our tax dollars. we give it to the federal government, they give it back to us, and they say here are these strings attached. they should not be able to do that. we should do a better job of taking care of florida in, and if we don't, we have elections. host: was guilty to tampa.

dangerous parts of the world to deliver humanitarian aid and hope and care's organization and many other ngo's like it people sometimes don't equate the are risk and exposure of your own health that you put to help other people so thank you for doing that. one last question for dr. pham. you talked in your remarks about al shabab keeping people from getting help. they're actually stopping are refugees from leaving the country to get help, is that correct? >> from sources on the ground that i have spoken with in the last 24 hours, their appear to be three different areas, one that appears to be a cap of sorts where they're actually holding people. two are just areas where they created enough violence around them more or less to corral them in, so it's not a guarded situation but it's a threatening one, and they're preventinging people in those cases from heading to mogidishu crossing the lines to the area controlled by the african union where peacekeepers can get to them. 100,000 people have crossed and they're preventing morgue from going. the other area is to divert people from heading south toward kenya. >> and the goal that is to just strike fear in the population or what