hello. thanks for joining us. on tap today, why the latest push by bill and melinda gates may be setting up this fight with the catholic church. also confronting the unthinkable. a teenage boy gets cancer and his father discovers this remarkable source of help. first, under the microscope. a new treatment for depression, a fascinating story, a disease as you know that affects more people than coronary heart disease or cancer. the good news is that in most cases it is treatable. medications such as antidepressants can be affected and in milder cases cognitive behavior therapy has been shown to work just as well. unfortunately, for many people nothing seems to help. that's why it's so exciting to hear about a totally new approach. it involves a device that looks a little bit like a pacemaker. two wires inserted drektly under the brain and then on the outside a doctor can literally flip a switch. it is a pretty radical approach but in some cases the results are astonishing. for as long as edie can remember she could not get the sad thoughts out of her head. >> my mother used to say to me, smile, edie. why don't you smile? i would, you know, go something like that or just think, what is there to smile about? >> at 19, the first of three suicide attempts. >> for reasons that are inexplicable to me even now. got up and started playing with a razor. >> you cut your wrists. >> yeah. >> did you cut both your wrists? >> yeah. >> over the next 40 years she tried counseling, psychiatric drugs, and electric row ce drugs, and electric row lectrice shock therapy but nothing worked. >> the despair is i think what is the most powerful push toward suicide because it feels like there is no hope. >> but if you could look inside edie's head today, this is what you'd see. two electrodes the thickness of angel hair pasta powered by a battery pack under her collar bone. >> i don't think about it. i have electrodess in my brain. >> it is an experimental use of deep brain stimulation pioneered by neurologist dr. helen maber. the target is called area 25, a junction box for the brain circuits that control our moods. here at emory where i'm on staff my colleagues have been using deep brain stimulation for more than 15 years to treat movement disorders such as parkinson's disease. in that case they're targeting the brain's motor system but dr. maber wanted to use it to target area 25 for patients with severe depression. it was a procedure just like this done on edie. in surgery patients are lightly sedated as a neuro surgeon drills two holes. with an instrument to guide him, he then inserts the electrodes. >> is the contact on? >> contact's on. >> as a benchmark the doctors asked edie to rate her feelings on a scale of one to ten starting with dread. >> my sense of dread is getting worse. >> rate it. >> eight. >> two minutes later they turned on one of the four contacts. >> how does it feel right now? >> no it's much less. >> what is the dread right now? >> three. >> doctors would soon get an even better result. up until this time edie could not connect emotion, not even with her baby grand niece, susan. >> somebody handed her to me and i held her but i was going through the motions and i felt really nothing. >> nothing. >> nothing. nothing. >> that changed in the operating room. when they tried contact number two. >> just letting you know if anything changes just give a shout. >> i just almost smiled. >> you just almost smiled? >> okay. describe that for us. would you please? >> i haven't smiled in a long time. or laughed. >> right there in that brain surgery i felt feelings that i thought were gone. >> you say you almost smiled. did something strike you as funny or just sort of spontaneous? >> it was, well, actually i was thinking of playing with susan. >> i started thinking about susan. i thought, i was holding her with her face to me. >> what was that like just to think that a machine and the electricity could transform your emotions like that? >> it felt fantastic. i didn't care what was doing it. it just felt great. >> actually spoon it in there. >> since 2003, the doctor has studied 37 patients with about two-thirds showing significant improvement. >> pretty good. huh? i feel good all the time but this gives me the capacity that if i can, if there is joy in my life, i have the capacity to feel it. >> what exactly is dbs doing to the brain circuits? what do we and don't we know about why this works? >> well, to be brutally honest we have no idea how this works. >> while maber continues her research to unlock the secrets of area 25 -- it's been five good years for edie. if you hadn't had the operation, where do you think you'd be right now? >> i really believe that i would have committed suicide. >> i'll tell you, the difference in edie is just amazing and this research is still in the early stages, but so far it is encouraging. dr. maber has not seen any significant side effect and it is exciting to be sure but still years away from widespread use. still ahead, bill and melinda gates have this new plan to promote birth control and it's landed them in hot water with the catholic church. there are a lot of warning lights and sounds vying for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with a patented safety alert seat. when there's danger you might not see, you're warned by a pulse in the seat. it's technology you won't find in a mercedes e-class. the all-new cadillac xts has arrived, and it's bringing the future forward. i wish my patients could see what i see. ♪ that over time, having high cholesterol plus diabetes... or family history of early heart disease... can put them at increased risk for plaque buildup. and they'd see that it's more important to get their cholesterol where their doctor wants. and why for these patients, when diet and exercise alone aren't enough, i prescribe crestor. adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol by up to 52%. and is also proven to slow plaque buildup. 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[ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. you may know the world population is expected to hit 8 billion in just over a decade. this week population experts are going to debate in london on how to make sure this is a sustainable and healthy population. the international family planning summit is organized by the bill and melinda gates foundation and has already started to get pushback especially from the catholic church. the issue at hand as you might guess is birth control. in this battle for hearts and minds linda gates a catholic herself told me her side of the story. the foundation she runs with her husband bill is about solutions for the most serious global diseases -- aids, malaria, polio. so what's next on the agenda for melinda gates? birth control. >> i think a lot of people may not know that. i didn't. but with regard to the foundation's efforts contraceptives was actually an earlier starting point than vaccines. >> it was. but you haven't really seen us go really big on this and say, it's got to be one of the hallmarks of the foundation. we've always been doing some work on contraceptives all along. >> was there a moment where you said, okay. we have this here in the united states but around the world they don't get to plan families the same way? >> a great discussion i had with a group of women in this slum outside of nairobi, literally the name of the slum translated means "standing shoulder to shoulder." you can imagine what this slum is like. one woman summed up the conversation so beautifully. she said, i want to bring every good thing to my child before i have another one. and i thought, that's it. that's universal. that's what every woman cares about. >> what's the importance of this to the world? what's the importance of this to the economics of these various countries? >> if a woman can plan and space her children, it starts this virtuous economic cycle. you see it in country after country after country. all over the world. and when you start that virtuous economic cycle what we know is it ends up leading to healthy communities, healthy cities, and healthy nations. >> you're a practicing catholic. you've been very open about that. your own bishop in dallas has said basically conception is sacred. and it's god's greatest gift. and artificial contraception violates the meaning of this gift. first of all, how do you wrestle with that? >> you have to be willing to speak your mind. i have to be able to say to me the contraceptive piece is not controversial. my roots, part of why i do what i do in the foundation, comes from that incredible social justice upbringing i had, this belief in that all lives, all lives have equal value. so we're not going to agree on everything but that's okay. >> if you were meeting with the pope? >> hum. >> what would you tell him? >> i would tell him that i think this is right for all women, that if you believe in helping poor women, if you believe in children living and thriving, i think this is a necessary tool in this day and age. >> another charge from catholic bloggers that birth control amounts to population control. is this population control? >> no. and i think that's where we have gotten ourselves also in trouble on this issue. deciding about a family is a decision that needs to be made inside of a family. the population is coming down in countries where there's widespread access to contraceptives but you've got to start. to hear women say to me i can't find the means to feed this child and if i have seven children there is no way i can feed and keep alive seven children. i think somebody needs to give voice to that and i think it's important that i do that. >> getting women access to contraception comes with a steep price tag. $4 billion. that's the estimate for providing family planning tools to 120 million women worldwide. and it's gates' mission this month in london getting world leaders to commit resources to this issue. did you talk about these issues with your kids? >> absolutely. we talked about these issues all the time, whether it's hiv/aids, family planning was just a big dinner table conversation just recently. >> is that right? >> because they're asking about the summit. what are you doing, mom? why are you going to senegal? why is that important? why is this important to you? >> so the discussion of the birds and bees in the gates household is a totally different -- you're talking about family planning at the global level. >> at the global level. that's true. >> people will say, look. you're talking about contraception. could that increase premarital sex? could it increase promiscuity? do these conversations take place? >> we tell our kids to follow their conscience and i also think about what would i counsel my own children to do? and to me, that guides me on what do i think is right for women around the world? >> how much of your time do you spend thinking about this? >> do you say what's the thing that really i want to make sure is my lifetime's work at the foundation? it really is this family planning. >> that is quite something to say. given all the various things that the foundation does and you have done personally, this is the one that you want to hold up and be remembered for? >> this is the one. >> still ahead, he was a troubled 13-year-old boy when he finally found a home. he had parents and siblings who loved him and embraced him. charles daniel would live only three more years. it was enough time, though, to change everything and everyone. great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet? by building on the cisco intelligent network they're able to serve up live video, and instant replays, creating fans from berlin to beijing. what can we help you build? nice shot kid. the nba around the world built by the only company that could. cisco. do you guys ride? well... no. sometimes, yeah. yes. well, if you know anybody else who also rides, send them here -- we got great coverage. it's not like bikers love their bikes more than life itself. i doubt anyone will even notice. leading the pack in motorcycle insurance. now, that's progressive. call or click today. aarrggh! all the struggle over obama care, one emotionally charged fight was over the term death panels. i can tell you there was never any such thing in the law but it did get us looking at this issue which is how do you care for patients at the end of life? what's needed for them? what's appropriate for them? it led us to a place i never expected. the george mark children's house in oakland, california, one of just three centers in the country where children with terminal illness can go with their families. >> when i was a kid some of my favorite toys were broken toys. and so, you know, with charles in this situation i was not going to give him up for any reason no matter what. from what the doctors and the nurses have told us it could be a couple hours. it could be a couple of days. you never know especially with charles. he's shown super human abilities through all of this. >> we adopted charles. i didn't have him, but i love him like he's mine. my cousin called us collect. he spoke to my husband and he asked them if we could step in and take care of his children because he wasn't able to do so being in jail. so we told him, yeah. without a doubt. family is family. you always take care of family no matter what. >> he would say, hello world. i'm charles. >> hey, how you all doing? my name is charles. charles daniels. yes. that's my name. ♪ ♪ >> he's a comedian of the family. >> he's our mr. brown. >> charles is a young man who has a brain tumor for which it is quite clear there is no cure. what we've been able to provide here is an environment where the kids can be totally themselves at the same time that they're able to participate in charles' final weeks and days. >> we first found out, they got all the family together and told us what was going on. >> she told us very calm and told us he was sick and he had brain cancer. >> they told us that charles is dying and we have to go somewhere where it's nice and beautiful for him. so we just don't want him passing in the house. and everything being sad. we want him to be comfortable in a nice place being here at george marks allows us and our entire family to be here together at all times. no visiting hours, none of that. no restrictions. we're free to be with him any time of the day or night. >> since i'm the older brother i feel like i need to be in there with him so when he wakes up, you know, if he can still remember us, he knows i'm right there and that i'll always be right there with him. >> there's nothing he could do about it or nothing we could do about it. we just have to just be strong. >> i never thought my kids would be as attentive as they are. you know, it's not just me and my wife taking care of charles. it's everybody. >> it's all of us. it hurts us to have to see them go through it. it's hard. >> it is hard. >> we tn's the beknow it's the m because he's fought a battle and in the end he will win because the cancer will not win. >> he deserves a rest now. you know, we'll forever be changed. he gave me something that most fathers don't get. i'm going to carry it with me forever. >> dr. barbara beach who is a children's cancer specialist started the center after she treated this boy who died miserably at her hospital because the insurance company wouldn't pay for a nurse to come to his home. and not all children at george mark have a terminal illness. some are just recovering from severe injuries or sickness. as we continue to celebrate the 4th of july this weekend you'll meet a wounded warrior riding his bike across the country to raise awareness for injured vets. it's an amazing story. stay with us. with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. tell your doctor about all your medicines, including those for migraine and while on cymbalta, call right away if you have high fever, confusion and stiff muscles or serious allergic skin reactions like blisters, peeling rash, hives, or mouth sores to address possible life-threatening conditions. talk about your alcohol use, liver disease and before you reduce or stop cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. ask your doctor about cymbalta. imagine you with less pain. cymbalta can help. go to cymbalta.com to learn about a free trial offer. did you know honey nut cheerios is america's favorite cereal? 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i said no baby i can't sit on the floor. she turned around and said under her breath, my daddy can't do anything. and i crawled out of the power wheelchair and i sat on the ground on my broken pelvis and i played legos. >> since that day he's become an iron man try athlete, competed in a 100-mile swim and just finished a relay bike race across the united states peddling six hours a day with just one leg. >> it's a neat ride because you kind of are going through the rural parts of america and that's, to me, the heartland. >> t