Stopping Sleepiness

The New Retirement

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  Cooking With Mr. Green Jeans

  "Agritourists" are signing up for cooking classes with the farmers who grow their food. Classes start in the fields and include such old-school methods as canning, preserving and butchering.

  • Video: Culinary Classes at the Local Farm

• A Nip and a Tuck

  The 65-plus crowd is signing up for cosmetic surgery in rapidly growing numbers. But physicians say older patients should approach cosmetic surgery with greater-than-normal caution.

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  Numbers That May Make You Sick

  Health-care costs for retirees can be crippling. That's why planning is so crucial. A MarketWatch panel looks at the best ways to budget, how to protect yourself and your family against the high cost of long-term care, and where to find help.

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  Reckoning With the Sun

  Health Matters: After summertime fun and travels, it's crucial to keep an eye out for any changes in the skin that could signal cancer. Fortunately even the deadliest form, melanoma, can be cured with early detection and proper treatment.

• Innovations in Health Care

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  The Time to Innovate Is Now

  How can the nation offer more people quality health care at a price the country can afford? The answer is in innovation.

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  Critical (Re)thinking

  Intensive-care units are getting a much-needed makeover. At Montefiore Medical Center in New York, the benefits are dramatic.

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  Medicine on the Move

  Mobile-health technology is booming. In the words of one doctor, smartphone apps, wireless sensors and other innovative tools hold "transformative potential."

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  The Model of the Future?

  Accountable-care organizations were promoted in the health-care law. But it's hard to know exactly what they are.

  • Insurers Try 'Medical Homes'
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  Nashville's New, Healthier Beat

  The city is one of 50 communities in a federal grant program designed to see what approaches work best at keeping people healthier through preventive measures.

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  Delivering Results

  New practices are dramatically reducing one of the most devastating medical problems: birth injuries and deaths

• Looking Back: Flu Immunization

• Journal articles on nation-wide flu vaccination in 1976:

  • Government Sets Plan to Immunize All Americans Against New and Potentially Dangerous Type of Flu (March 25, 1976)
  • U.S. Flu-Vaccination Plan May Collapse Due to Thorny Insurance-Coverage Issue (July 19, 1976)
  • Flu Drives Are All Set To Roll—If the People And Vaccine Show Up (Aug. 4, 1976)
  • An Initial Offering Of Swine Flu Shots Is Undersubscribed (Oct. 5, 1976)