Description: Since 1942, Metropolitan Life has been producing tables that show the weights at which mortality is lowest. Their purpose is to promote sound concepts of weight control. This article discusses Metropolitan's 1983 height and weight tables.

Description: In 1983, a poultry virus hit the jackpot in Pennsylvania. While making a copy of its genetic material, the virus made a tiny error. Because of that error, it began producing a slightly altered protein which allowed the normally benign organism to spread beyond its usual residence in chicken lungs and intestines. Soon it was burrowing into other parts of the birds’ bodies - including the nervous system, where it multiplied rapidly and began to cause disease. Could something like this happen to humans?

Description: Recap of the Brazil Insurance Markets in 2008.

Description: This table shows the results of an attribution of the major contributing factors to the rate of mortality improvement in cardiovascular disease between 1980 and 2000.

Description: The author gives his opinions of the cause of the health care financing crisis and ever increasing health care costs.

Description: Summary of the National Conference on Medical Costs, held in Washington, D.C. on June 28-29, 1967.

Description: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, discusses health care and health policy.

Description: Article describes enhanced primary care models and provides citations on whether or not health care savings have been achieved.

Description: The article gives actuaries an introduction to Academy Health, the notable health policy research organization.

Description: This editorial reviews the benefits of managed care, notes the public pressure to relax controls around this system and the expected cost impact of doing so.