Years after fukushima, radio in activity, iradioinactivity, ite inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. The design failures of the Nuclear Power plant at fukushima are wellknown and japan will be living with them for a lightning sometime. The area of so radio active five years after the tsunami that robots sent in to do work too dangerous for humans failed and decide soon after they entered the contaminated zones. Register as radioactive on store shelves at the other end of the country. Japan marked the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami this week, al jazeeras Harry Fawcett reports. Reporter in natarie, this is the closest thing ohigh ground. A mound built 96 years ago so the residents of this town could look out to sea. Five years on from the tsunami, it is a place of remembrance. Broadcast live it first showed the scale of disaster unfolding in japan. 950 people died here. Nearly 18 and a half thousand across the country. All thats left of the densely packed hous
The drug costs patients 129,000. The same cost for patients in other countries about a third of that amount. I realize the pharmaceutical Companies Invest their researches, they bring a new drug to market, they should profit from that innovation, but why are the u. S. Patients getti getting gauged for drugs. Can you better explain why u. S. Taxpayers are paying for Biomedical Research at the front end and paying exorbitant prices at the back end . Ill just say that 50 of my colleagues and myself sent a letter to you and secretary burwell requesting that they write when taxpair funded research leads to patent product not available to the public on reasonable terms . What are reasonable terms . A drug shouldnt cost 129,000 for people to get access to it. I know this is a topic of great interest, and while it should be and my heart goes out as all of us do to patients who are in need of a therapeutic which is outside of their financial means to be able to gain access to. That ought to be
Panel. Hairing this basically keeping everybody more or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. So i just want to introduce our panelists and the weight will get started. I think we will go in the order. Isted in your program weo this panel is on are going to so, this panel is on radio and National Heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. Good morning, everybody. This is jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. In our company. Several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. Our chief officer sitting in the atnt will also be presenting the interdisciplinary session, so please make sure you attend her talk as well. We are here to tell you about historicalted nprs archive in 2013 from scratch while
Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
Year, cspans touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Next, a recent 11 our recent visit to long beach, california. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3. This is from the townsend letter on september 30, 1933, to the long beach newspaper, the Long Beach Press telegram. Saying, our attitude toward government is wrong. We look upon government as something entirely foreign to ourselves as something over which we have no control, and which we cannot expect to do us a great deal of good. We do not realize that it can do us infinite harm, except when we go to pay our taxes. But the fact is, we must learn to expect and demand that the Central Government assumed the duty of regulating business activity. When business begins to slow down and Capital Shows signs of timidity, National Government in the form of additional capital. When times are good and begin to show signs of a speculative debauch such as we saw in my can 29, the brakes must be applied. Thousands of