Historically it may end up being more and more of an an oration that his experience was the whole yield curve Interest Rate environment. We had a misery index back then where you add unemployment and inflation together. It was up in the low 20s. We may never see that again i hope we never see that again unless we do if we do, that means something is very wrong. A man and his moment can you imagine a fed being so taking really the world on in terms of im going to break the back of inflation, i dont care what happens to go to 21. 5 on the prime. What year is it now, 2019. He dies at a pretty old age. 92 years old. 92 years old and struggling to get to 2 because he harnessed or vanquished it so effectively when he did. He will be remembered. He was a very tall man and nice man. I know you spent some time with him. He was on the show a lot he was. The same day, you are dealing with cookie monster or what was it, oscar the grouch you are oscar the grouch. The puppetear behind big bird passe
Guest its remarkable the United States of america we have aon shortage of really important idicines. This has been going on for 20 years and we have had hundreds and hundreds. One of the medicines that is in shortage right now is a really important blood center that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i dont know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we dont have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages in right now theres a shortage of her really important antibiotic for lifethreatening infections. These are lifeanddeath medicines. Sometimes we can get them and we are rationing medicine in the United States of america. Its really quite remarkable. Host is this hyperbole or isar this a real existing probl . We hear a lot of talk from a lot of Different Industries saying the sky is falling here. Is
Hastings center. Good morning. Guest good morning. Great to be here. Host tell us about drug shortages in the United States. What drugs are we talking about. What drugs are we short on . Guest in the United States of america, we have a shortage of really important medicines. This has been going on 20 years. Andave had hundreds hundreds. One of the medicines and shortage right now is a really important blood thinner that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i do not know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we do not have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages and right now, there is a shortage of a really important antibiotic to treat a lifethreatening infection. These are life and death medicine. Sometimes, we cannot get them, and we are rationing. In therationing medicine United States of amer
And biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans leads and as we learn today how to change our d. N. A. I mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases unborn babies today i sat down with revolutionary scientists and molecular engineer Dr George Church to talk about that. Professor George Church thank you very much for being on our program today so do you know sequencing and gene editing is Something Like the internet in the eightys on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon genome editing will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. Its possible i mean its hard to rule out that scenario just like there are many. Drugs that we pop without prescription that might be one of them right right now lets stop the case but there are many. Pharmaceuticals that we take without without thinking about them that much so when you say that you know madigan is on the br
Change in cost structure and the impact it has on things that we care about the health of our children the ourselves thats. Probably means that will its also going to ignore well i mean i heard that you could actually conduct genome engineering at home you dont even have to be a scientist to do that right you can just order a desired d. N. A. Sample over the internet its like 10. 00 get it delivered i dont inject it if thats the case why dont people lot of fire themselves time to time. Of. Well you can also order all sorts of chemicals at home too but most people dont have the the know how or the unmet need ok but people do inject themselves with gene therapy is there are a few known cases and probably on the torah level youre on an amateur level people inject themselves with or with maybe some little assistance. Outside of the standard Biomedical Research practice do we know what that has resulted in to date i think not much has come of it because. You know for something for most impa