>>> WE ARE BACK AT 8:13 TO BREAK DOWN WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SOME MAJOR MEDICAL HEADLINES. EVERYTHING HAS SOME NEW INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU. WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DRUGS, JENNY CRAIG'S COMEBACK HERE TO A DANGEROUS DISEASE ON THE RISE BECAUSE OF MOSQUITOS. >> HERE TO ANSWER ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS, DR. JOHN TOREZ. DR. JOHN, GOOD TO SEE YOU. START WITH THE ALZHEIMER'S DRUG. THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT COULD BE QUITE THE GAME CHANGER. WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE DRUG AND WHAT DO PATIENTS AND FAMILIES NEED TO KNOW? >> IT'S CALLED LIQUIMBY. WE THINK THE FDA WILL GIVE FULL APPROVAL TODAY. IT'S INTENDED TO SLOW ALZHEIMER'S PROGRESSION. THIS IS THE FIST DRUG SHOWN TO SLOW THE PROGRESSION. BUT IT SLOWS DOWN THE RATE OF COGNITIVE DECLINE. IT DOESN'T STOP COGNITIVE DECLINE, BUT SLOWS IT DOWN, OVER AN 18-MONTH PERIOD. THE% REDUCTION IN THAT COGNITIVE DECLINE, WHICH SOME EXPERTS ARE SAYING IS ONLY A MODEST REDUCTION. IT GIVES THEM A FIVE-MONTH DELAY OF ALZHEIMER'S PROGRESSION, AND ONLY FOR PARENTS WITH MILD-TO-EARLY SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMER'S. THAT'S WHY SOME EXPERTS ARE SAYING, SOULD WE BE APERUING THIS, SHOULD IT BE USEFUL? IT'S NOT A CURE, AND IT HAS A COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT. IT'S $26,500 PER YEAR IS THE COST. WE THINK THAT CMS, MEDICARE, MEDICAID WILL BE PAYING FOR IT, BUT WITH STRICT CRITERIA. IT'S GOING TO BE FEWER PEOPLE THAN WE THINK WILL BE USING THIS. >> I THINK IT'S NORTH OF 6 MILLION FOLKS IN THIS COUNTRY SUFFERING WITH ALZHEIMER'S RIGHT NOW. CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THIS DRUG, WERE THEY PROMISING? >> THE CLINICAL TRIALS WERE PROMISING AND THEY LOOKED GOOD. IT REDUCES THE AMYLOID, WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE THINK CONTRIBUTES TO ALZHEIMER'S, THOSE PLAQUES THAT BUILD UP IN THE BRAIN AND SLOWED DOWN THAT RATE OF COGNITIVE DECLINE. DIDN'T STOP IT, BUT THERE WERE SOME SIDE EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. BRAIN SWELLING AND BRAIN BLEEDING. ABOUT 14% OF PEOPLE HAD SIDE EFFECTS, AND SOME WERE ASYMPTOMATIC. SOME SAYING, THIS COULD BE A GAME CHANGER, SOME SAYING, WE'RE NOT SURE THIS SHOULD BE APPROVED, BUT NOW THAT IT IS, THIS IS ONE MORE STEP OF FINDING SOMETHING THAT CAN CERTAINLY HELP OUT. >> FDA EXPECTED TO APPROVE IT LATER TODAY. >> INTERESTING. >> ANOTHER HEADLINE WE'RE FOLLOWING THIS MORNING, JENNY CRAIG BACK, A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS TIME AFTER FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY. BUT THIS TIME, ONLINE ONLY, RIGHT? >> RIGHT. JENNY CRAIG FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN MAY. IF YOU REMEMBER, IT WAS THE STORES EVERYWHERE AND YOU AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT THOSE COMMERCIALS EVERYWHERE. WELL, IT USED TO BE THAT YOU WOULD GO TO THE STORE, GET YOUR PRE-MADE FOOD AND GET SOME COACHING, BASICALLY, SOME NUTRITION COACHING. WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO NOW IS IT'S ALL GOING TO BE MAIL ORDER, ESSENTIALLY. PRE-MADE FOOD THROUGH THE MAIL AND IT'S GOING TO BE VIRTUAL COACHING INSTEAD OF ACTUAL COACHING. AND SOME ADVOCATES ARE LIKE, THIS IS GREAT. JENNY CRAIG IS COMING PACK, THEY LOVE JENNY CRAIG, THERE'S A FOLLOWING AFTER THE BANKRUPTCY SAYING, WE WAN JENNY CRAIG TO COME BACK. THEY THINK THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE ONE MORE TOOL THEY CAN USE IN THAT DIETING TOOL BOX WE HAVE ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. >> SOME OTHER THINGS, THEY FACE COMPETITION WITH THE POPULAR DIET TRENDS LIKE OZEMPIC. TALK REALLY QUICKLY WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT. >> THE MAIN THING, THEY WORK AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THEM. AND WE KNOW THAT OBESITY IS A DISEASE. THINK ABOUT IT LIKE HIGH CHOLESTEROL, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT MEDICATION FOR LIFE. IT'S THE SAME HERE. ONCE YOU STOP TAKING THOSE MEDICATIONS -- >> IT COMES BACK? >> THE WEIGHT BOUNCES BACK. AS A MATTER OF FACT, NOT ONLY DOES IT BOUNCE BACK, BUT THEY DID A STUDY, FOR TYPE II DIABETICS, A COUPLE OF YEAR AGO, AT THE TWO-YEAR POINT, 70% HAD STOPPED THAT MEDICATION BECAUSE OF SIDE EFFECTS OR COST, THEY CAN BE EXPENSIVE AND USUALLY NOT PAID FOR. THEY'RE GOOD AS LONG AS YOU USE THEM, BUT YOU NEED TO USE THEM ALONG WITH LIFESTYLE CHANGES, MEANING, CHANGE YOUR DIET, MAKE SURE YOU EXERCISE, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. IF YOU DO STOP IT, THE WEIGHT HOPEFULLY GETS MAINTAINED. >> AS WE'VE BEEN SEEING, IT'S HOT AND BUGGY OUTSIDE. WE'VE BEEN REPORTING ON SOME OF THOSE MALARIA CASES IN TEXAS, FLORIDA, AS WELL. IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. HOW CONCERNED SHOULD WE BE ABOUT THOSE MOSQUITOS GIVING US MALARIA. >> FOUR IN FLORIDA, ONE IN TEXAS. THESE ARE WHAT WE CALL LOCALIZED INFECTIONS, MEANING THEY ARE INFECTIONS FROM MOSQUITOS THAT BIT SOMEBODY IN THAT STATE. NOT COMING FROM OUT OF COUNTRY. UP UNTIL NOW, 2003 WAS THE LAST TIME WE HAD THESE. THE LAST 20 YEARS, IT'S BEEN CASES THAT CAME FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. PEOPLE GOT BIT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, CAME HERE, AND DEVELOPED MALARIA. >> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS IT'S HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY. >> EXACTLY, COMING FROM OUR COUNTRY. STILL AN EXTREMELY LOW RISK. AND THE CDC HAS PUT OUT AN ALERT, BUT THEY SAY IT'S A LOW RISK. THE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER, IT IS A MOSQUITO-BORN DISEASE, AND YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL WITH MOSQUITOS. WE HAVE ZIKA, WE HAVE CHICKEN GUNYA, WEST NILE VIRUS, ALL OF THESE OTHER DISEASES. >> CHICKEN GUNYA DOES NOT SOUND GOOD. >> SYMPTOMS TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR? >> THE SYMPTOMS, FEVER, CHILL, BODY ACHES, FATIGUE. BUT THOSE FEVERS TEND TO BE CYCLICAL. THEY CAN HAPPEN EVERY DAY OR EVERY OTHER DAY. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM MOSQUITOS. BUG SPRAY, LONG SLEEVES. DON'T GO OUT AT DUSK OR DAWN. >> DEET OR NO DEET?
