Announcer this is on the money, your money, your life, your future. Now, becky quick we begin with the Opioid Crisis in addition to the personal price millions of americans have paid the epidemic had an Economic Impact with an estimated cost of 500 billion in 2015. Heres more on the cover story today. One new tool doctors hope to use in the Opioid Crisis, digital pills which may provide a clearer picture of prescription opioid use. They contain an ingestible Wireless Sensor to notify doctors it has been taken. Doctors in boston ran a small study using the technology and enrolled patients who had broken a bone prescribing seven days of ox codone. They found on average patients took only six. We were able to identify patients dont need as many opioids as doctors think. Thats important. Data shows an initial prescription of opioid the more likely they will use it a year or more later. The digital pill Technology Used in the study made by a Company Called e tech rx but the First Digital pi
Price millions of americans have paid, the epidemic has had an Economic Impact as well with an estimated cost of more than 500 billion in 2015. As america grapples with this problem, innovators are coming up with solutions. Could digital pills be part of the answer . Meg tirrell has more on our cover story today. One new tool doctors hope to use in the opioid crisis, socalled digital pills, which may help by providing a clearer picture of prescription opioid use. They contain an ingestible Wireless Sensor that can notify doctors or caregivers that a medicine has been taken. The sensors send a signal to devices outside the body. Doctors at Brigham Womens hospital in boston ran a small study using the technology. They enrolled patients who had broken a bone, prescribing them seven days worth of oxycodone. Thats 21 pills. What they found, patients on average only actually took six. We were able to identify that patients dont really need nearly as many opioids as doctors think that they do
I want to make sure people understand they have a part to play as well. Reporter two questions if you dont mind, number one, taking a step back looking big picture the wildfires out west. Texas people are recovering from, irma, jose, resources of the federal government are not limited. At what point are you worried resources are stretched too thin . I dont. Chief of staff general kelly said the federal government should be able to watch and chew game at the same time. He is absolutely right. We had Cabinet Meetings today, yesterday and throughout the storm events, focusing on National Security matters around the globe. Im pretty comfortable in our ability and capacity as leaders. Also as institutions to handle various Different Things come our way. Im extremely comfortable with President Trumps capacity to do so. He juggles issues of complex i on complexity as they do today. Congress stepped up in bipartisan way. President trump deserves a lot of credit for putting that together over t
Currently seeing coldest further north and west you travel. Mount pocono checks in at 45. This is close are to where we should be but above average at 57 at this early hour. We should hit upper 60s which is still above average but now were back to need ago this extra layer. You didnt need it yesterday. You needed umbrella instead. Now we are trading off accessories for the day ahead when it comes to the weather. We will give you a a minus and only just because we will see cloud overhead and it is cooler by comparison. Sure is, i can feel it already. Thanks very much. So good news that fog is moving out, we have an accident here 95 south at washington avenue pulled off to the right shoulder. Might be tapping your brakes, gaper delay starting as well as residual delays starting and congestion levels will begin to heat up now that we are pushing in the 6 00 oclock hour. Then we did have an accident another one boulevard south bun at ninth street that outer drive that has now been moved ou
Forecasters are warning, it could be the most powerful storm, to make land fall in the u. S. , since 2005, and millions are in its path. We dont know what will happen, if we will come back to a home what damage we are coming home to, it is kind of sad, scary. Reporter many coastal residents are boarding up their homes and heading inland , hotels are making people check out. School buses are shuttling hundreds out of corpus christie. Thursday, babies from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit were flown north to safety but officials are concerned because not as many people are evacuating, compared with previous storms. The National Hurricane center is calling harvey life threatening and says it could leave parts of the upper texas coast uninhabitable for weeks. Harvey could deliver wind of over 110 miles an hour and 15 foot storm surge when it arrives. The issue will be when it makes land fall it is just going to sit, meander over texas coastline here. Reporter rainfall is predict to be close