Health and Science
Raising Medicare's Eligibility Age to 67? Government Saves But Individuals, Employers & Medicaid Don't
"Raising Medicare’s age of eligibility would obviously reduce Medicare spending, but would also shift costs onto seniors and employers, and increase costs elsewhere on the federal ledger." more »
Engineering and Couture: Fashioning Apollo
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon July, 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses, whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles more »
Health For Sale: Ars Medica and Cheret's Lithographs Explore Medical Posters From 1846 to Present
Bright colors and punchy slogans captured the public’s attention, using humor, satire and caricature to sell products, promote pharmacies, or to warn against social evils including alcoholism, marijuana and venereal disease. more »
Risks to US from Japanese Power Plant Seen as Low
The survey of state departments of health indicated that those with a nuclear power plant were better prepared for a major nuclear emergency, but most still weren't prepared enough ... Fewer than half of the states surveyed had written plans for radiation exposure assessment, environmental sampling, human specimen collection and analysis, and human health assessment. more »
