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This morning. >> thanks for having me. in health news a team of british and american scientists claiming to be closer to a cure for baldness after growing human hair from tissue samples taken from seven people. the group says more research is needed but the procedure could, in their words, transform the medical dream of hair lose. still to come, dick cheney and the terror threat that is not nearly as outlandish as it sounded. cyberattackers targeting the heart device that keeps cheney alive. it's possible. we'll explain. waffle bars... fancy robes... seems every hotel has something to love...

Morning, thank you. former vice president dick cheney was apparently worried that terrorists would kill him by hacking into a device that was keeping him alive. in an interview with our dr. sanjay gupta that aired first on cbs "60 minutes," cheney said he had doctors disable a wireless feature on his implanted heart device. he worried that terrorists might find a way to hack that device and send a deadly jolt to his heart, killing him. you may remember this. john and i, we know this episode. this is an episode of the tv show "homeland," that used that exact possibility that cheney was talkin...

That there are people who think that this bill is largely unknown and some of the impact it is having. so the medical device-makers reacting to the idea of a 2.3% tax on medical devices like heart device, surgical tools, saying hey, this is punitive to us. it would hurt our industry. the white house responds in fact with the affordable health care act you will have more people who now are going to go to hospitals, getting medical services and the demand for these instruments will increase. so the overall industry in fact will benefit. this, to my mind, i listen to what mary katherine just said...

Hour. welcome back to this "american morning." the former vice president, dick cheney, is talking about his health. familiar with a lot of his health problems over the years with his heart. talking about a heart device that's for the most part keeping him alive. >> in an interview with nbc news, cheney who also lost quite a bit of weight says he's still not decided whether or not to actually go on a transplant list to seek a transplant for what he calls end stage heart failure. he has an artificial pump that's been implanted in his chest. >> i wear it on a vest. there's a control element here....