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Thing. that is one of my mistakes. >> yes! >> but the thing is a cost maybe six dollars a day when a car accident will cost you millions! >> you are the problem! you are the problem! you live on the word if. >> yes that and nuva ring. >> okay what you think about my solutions? catastrophic health insurance only cost about $800, right? >> that is what insurance is supposed to be. the event of something big. it is not supposed to be like diet counseling, contraception. i think birth control should...

Feeds into data. video feeds are by nature a little creepy when everybody looks at them. this way a computer looks at it. turn it into data, then we delete it. >> i think theres a lot more things we can do if we have better understanding of the pedestrian activity in the city. when to schedule trash pickup, how many police to deploy to a particular area. the better handle you have on a place, the better you can manage it. >> to learn more about the city of tomorrow project you can log on to cnn....

Karen and ring wock wondered wh could have caused their vibrant daughter to collapse. 2,000 miles away they had no idea what paramedics were up against. >> she had a heart attack, and then two more on the way over to the hospital in the ambulance. and then another one in the hospital. and she never woke up. >> reporter: erika was dead. shed been a healthy 24-year-old. so immediately the question, why. the answer would come as a shock. something they were never told about. something tens of milli...

Life-threatening blood clots is double with a device called nuv ra ring. nuva-ring has been available in the u.s. since 2002. 830,000 women use it. studies have shown that the number of those rare side effects are low. fewer than 11 cases per 10,000 women who used it for a year. but a recent story in "vanity fair" detailed some of these dangers and allegations and we wanted to look further into it. we found families struggling to understand their loss and demanding better education of doctors an...

>> theres a link between nuva-ring and pulmonary embolisms. >> reporter: nuva-ring, one of the most popular birth control products on the market. the manufacturer says 44 million prescriptions have been filled for women in the united states alone. hospital records cited nuva-ring as a lisk factor for causing a blood clot to break free and travel to erikas lungs, cutting off her oxygen instantly. the manufacturer merck acknowledges a small risk of blood clots but stands by his product saying ther...

Label will look like. sometimes safety is put aside because you have drug companies that try to argue with the fda and say that conclusions were not accurate. with respect to nuvaring, its true that all hormonal contraceptives carry some risk of blood clot, but multiple studies have associate the ring with a higher risk that has not been disclosed. it is disconcerting that they knew about this before nuvaring was approved for the market. leaving out that critical warning information from the lab...

Approval sort of thing. theyre supposed to be policing big pharma on our behalf. do you think that the fda is doing enough for consumers? >> no, its not doing enough for consumers, especially since it was created for the consumer. in terms of fda regulation, they have been given more authority by a congress to impose label changes when safety information becomes available after a drug is brought on to the market. previously, it was a voluntary action on the part of a drug company to update its l...

Thats something that congress would have to address if they were able to try and move the fda in a more independent direction where its not completely dependent on the pharmaceutical industry. >> lets take a step back and look at this more from the consumer predictive, even if you dont know how the fda works. when people see political adds and the political says i approve this message, a lot of people are like thats weird, politics is weird. actually, they are forced by federal law to say that, ...

Caused blood clots and other severe side effects. now 1,500 women are suing in a mass litigation in federal court. they claim the drug makers not only knew about the risk, but lobbied the fda to soften the label. the claim was disputed, telling "the huffington post," "the company has provided appropriate and timely information about nuva ring to consumers and the medical, scientific and regulatory communities, but we remain confident in the safety and efficacy provile offile of nuvaring. it rais...

Gander. cant that it? -- >> no it is not. >> paul, if you could do my job you would have looked that up and found out that is the phrase. >> i did and couldnt find it. >> why does mitt romney anything about the shot? >> i dont know what your problem s. it is not for me to say. i understand if you are not comfortable talking about it on air. >> i am uncomfortable with everybody running around with all of saws. that can be dangerous. >> i have always said if you make out with a goose, yea, gander....