Some of you may remember that.

Most of this is in developing countries, and the majority is in Africa.

A health status of a nation parallels development of that nation.

There's no comparison at all.

Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular disease epidemic.

Three years later, he's ripping through boot camp. Attending physician calls the improvement in his bloodcell count miraculous.

No heart disease, nocturnal asthma or sleep apnea.

One out of two of you women will be impacted by cardiovascular disease in your lifetime.

She graduated NYU, she has a heart condition.

These are years that we could get.

And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular disease.

18.Rare diseases

It was a study to specifically ask, what's going on with women?

And this is something that sobers us in our field everyday in that, obviously, we've made remarkable impacts on cardiovascular disease, but look at cancer.

It is interesting that in the United States, the most significant health care budget goes to cardiovascular disease care, whether it's private or public.

We are more likely to die from the diseases of old age such as cancer, stroke and the number one killer

The heart is taking a quick breather to refill.

Centers for Disease Control.

90 of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable mental illness at the time of their death.

Heart disease.

300 to 500 million cases are reported.

I want to tell you about another disorder.

Now when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here.

At that time, much of the fat in the American diet was still not directly linked to coronary heart disease.

And they were competitive about this

And of course, they were right.

So I have for a long time said that what we really needed was a rapid diagnostic.

I have Friedreich's ataxia, a neuromuscular disease.

There are some great resources out there.

Elyn, you don't really understand

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

It's made a mistake.

And we then can re perfuse the liver with cells, preserving the blood vessel tree.

We've been actually using adult stem cells now in clinical trials for about 15 years to approach a whole range of topics, particularly in cardiovascular disease.

Blood flows through blood vessels.

It's gonna be going initially through a giant vessel.

And so specifically you might hear about a coronary artery, or a coronary vein, but together you can call them coronary blood vessels.

And the capsules in her blood stream.

This is a place where the oldest living female population is found.

But, as a cancer doc, this is what I see.

We can inject these dyes into the bloodstream, so that when we do a new vessel and we bypass a blockage on the heart, we can see if we actually made the connection, before we close that patient back up again something that we haven't been able to do without radiation before.

Come on, I'll take you there. ( slow, dramatic theme playing )

Blood runs in the veins.

Because we understand very little about most human diseases.