Sightings

In a new book, Museum curator William L. Bird Jr. brings The Dolls’ House to life and that of it's owner, Faith Bradford, a woman of note. Explore the five-story, 23-room miniature home. As Bird describes in the book, it was "a floating object, stand-alone attraction, a house without a home." more »

The capacity to manage one’s own financial affairs is critical to success in independent living. Impairments in financial skills and judgment are often the first functional changes demonstrated by patients with incipient dementia. more »

. If your bone density test shows that you have low bone density (osteopenia), the fracture risk assessment tool called FRAX can help estimate your chance of breaking a bone within the next 10 years. This makes it easier to decide whether you might benefit from taking an osteoporosis medicine. more »

Pew Analyzes a recent debate over the strength of potential links between the recent decline in marriage rates and the national economic downturn. Two trends are heading in the same direction, but are they related? more »