That we understand . Early onset disease is defined by the age of onset, but we have learned in recent years that it is probably the same underlying disease process. Having said that, a person who was affected with alzheimers disease in his armor 50s versus somebody in the 80s may have different contributions to the clinical picture. They look the same. They are forgetful and they develop problems with thinking and activities with daily living, but in the older person, there is that tangles and some other pathologies and vascular disease. In the younger onset person, it is more likely to be a few are a pure form of the disease i think both of them are comparable. Treatment that are likely to be used for onset early on can be used for later on. There might be a slight predilection toward a genetic as with most diseases. When they occur earlier in life they are more genetically noted that later in life. The biology of the disease is quite comparable with early onset and late onset. Senat
In part, the food and medical products that American Consumers and patients use in their daily lives. Nearly 40 of finish drugs americans consume today are made elsewhere, and 80 of the active pharmaceuticals in those drugs are manufactured outside our borders. For the food supply, the numbers are equally startling. More than 85 of seafood that is eaten here comes from other countries. About 50 of our fresh food and 20 of our fresh vegetables, and these changing dynamics obviously introduce new complexities, new risks for American Consumers, as these products follow increasingly complex Global Supply chains to get to your table. And your kitchen cupboard. We can no longer rely on simple inspections at the border to track the products that are coming through. The volume has quadrupled over the last decade. We have introduced new hightech riskbased screening systems of the borders to allow us to target on the most vulnerable commodities, the ones with the highest risk. We really have to
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Formal channel of communications that did not exist before between this administration and the Merkel Administration on these issues of intelligence. Since the precipitating factor was intelligence. Is that an understanding of what this opaque language actually means. I dont know if i would necessarily describe it as a new channel primarily because conversations between lisa monaco and her counterpart in germany are not unprecedented. There was a robust intelligence sharing relationship that has existed between the u. S. And germany for quite sometime. You sent the chief of staff and the chief Counter Terrorism advisor when everything is normal. You would agree with that. Well, i would agree with your observation that published reports indicate that there were a number of things that needed to be discussed between us and our count ercounterparts. We value the close and ongoing security operation and intelligence relationship that we have with the germans as i mentioned before. That is
Drawn. There two different private sector models. The model that has been2g endod by the president and the subject of Congress Said Telephone Companies will continue to keep the meta data as their own Business Records and they will be approved fromyl7 obtaining t from the Telephone Companies. There was an alternative proposed that its important to understand what the program was essentially was with them inquiries of it based on reasonable suspicion that they were associated with terrorism. What they are moving towards now is making that query of the Telephone Companies. The intermediate model was lets give the bulk meta data to a third party who would hold it and have the government have the ability to sending the queries. I dont think there was any substantial support for that both because it creates a new security program. You know how it held with somebody else and it didnt seem to provide substantial privacy protections. Lets open it up now for questions from the audience so we wi