baby aspirin daily to keeping your heart healthy. millions of americans have been doing just that. now the federal task force is strongly warning against it especially those 60 or older saying it could do more harm than good. now with our chief correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. what s the deal, should we take aspirin or what s going on? it is fewer and fewer to take aspirin. initially the idea was what s the harm and it can potentially help prevent problems but as we have seen more of the potential risks, risks like bleeding, these recommendations are encouraging people to be cautious. what these new recommendations, really when you are 60, you should not take aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke. bleeding risk goes up with age.
the hospital president explained why on cnn. every one of our professional tenets require us to put our patients first, keep patients safe by anything we can possibly do. so those individuals choosing not to get vaccinated are basically saying they re going against the tenets of our profession and they re not putting patients first. let s get some perspective from this from our medical chief correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. why this captures our attention is you re talking medical professionals, sanjay, and there s still this huge chunk of americans including medical professionals who do not want to get vaccinated, aren t getting vaccinated. what s going on with that? with hospitals, that s going to be a different population. by definition, they re vulnerable people within the hospitals. they re most at risk. that s the point the ceo of hospitals have made.
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victim s family stunned and afraid. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the republican candidates are scrambling to cover as much ground as they can. the south carolina primary only nine days away and early voting in florida starting at the same time. it s now make or break for the stragglers in the gop pack. some are trying to cut into mitt romney s lead by slamming his record as a financier. romney is mounting a counter-offensive in florida today. jim acosta is joining us from west palm beach with the latest. jim? reporter: wolf, don t let all the florida sunshine fool you. mitt romney is coming up a blizzard of attacks from the gop rivals over the issue of corporate layoffs, so the gop front-runner returned to a familiar theme of the campaign, and that is he understands the plight of the unemployed. mitt romney hopes he s found the message to remain his bain in the neck. being unemployed for a long period of time means families are having a hard time ma
families during their recovery. throughout this ordeal, dad s singular focus has been on the the well-being of gabby and he asks that we all continue to pray for her recovery and her family. also at the hospital today, up with of congresswoman s gabrielle giffords doctors, dr. peter rhee, gave a positive report of her condition. none of the downward a events have not occurred which is what we wanted to happen at this point. we have decreased the amount of sedation, we are giving her, and as a result of that, she is becoming more and more spontaneous all of the tile. let s bring in our own chief correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, a neurosurgeon. what is your reaction when you hear dr. rhee say that? well, the idea of spontaneous movement is something that you look for when you decrease the sedation in someone, and obviously, more awakeful, and