Page 31 - Heart Defect News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> shannon: major breakthrough in genetic research. scientists manipulating the dna in human embryos repairing a gene responsible for a heart defect. we have more on the story from atlanta. how significant is this breakthrough? >> very significant, shannon. the first time that researchers have been able to manipulate the genes inside a human embryo to remove a mutation that causes a very serious disease. in this case they were targeting a disease called hcm, a heart condition that produces no advance symptoms but caused sudden death in healthy, athletic young adults. researchers went into than...

During the clinton administration they worked essentially during the entire administration. health care is a very, very tough thing to get, but i think we are going to get it. we don't have too much of a choice because the alternative is the dead carcass of obamacare. >> lawmakers push to get a health care bill through the senate a mom is speaking out about it. her son ethan was born with a serious jeanetgenetic defect wh organs form on the wrong side of the ball and results in heart defect as well. she tweeted her son's hospital bill and it went viral. both allison and ethan who is now nearly...

It all gives us solemn moment to pause and again thank god for the blessings that he has given others of us. so many people in our country, over 123 million people or more, have a pre-existing medical condition. your case is, as you described, something very exceptional. nonetheless, a child born with heart defect, this or that, it's the kimmel baby is -- that's repeated all over the country without the same kind of resources to care for it. the whole point right now is to defeat that bill. because that bill raises costs for fewer benefits, has an age tax for anyone 50 to 64, kicks 24 million ...

Benefits regardless of age, income or pre-existing condition and sustaining medicare and medicaid expansion? in short going against everything that the current ahca is standing for. what will you do in short, congresswoman to save my life and the lives of americans like myself? >> thank you, katie, for sharing your story with us. it all gives us solemn moment to pause and again thank god for the blessings that he has given others of us. so many people in our country, over 123 million people or more, have a pre-existing medical condition. your case is, as you described, something very exception...

This throughout this process. obamacare saved your life. you had cancer. you questioned paul ryan about it at our town hall. what do you make of the new bill? >> well, last time my wife had din we're a client. and i went along and the lady at the table next to us, her name is mary. seemed kind of frantic, and i went over and talked to her, and she had a son with a heart defect, born with a heart defect. and she was just worried sick about her son having to go without health insurance or health care. and, you know, we all have someone we love that has a pre-existing condition whether it's diabe...