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Looks at how the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has gained hospital participation through a Medicare program in an effort to stop health care discrimination against African-Americans as of 1966. Concern over the impact of Medicare on facilities and hospital staff; Factors that contribute to the success of the department's Medicare program; Implications for the health care sector.

Presents feedbacks of several readers on several socio-political issues in the United States during the Second World War. Suggestion of a reader to create the post of a Secretary of National Security, ranking after the U.S. Secretary of State; Proposal of a reader that the federal government set up a central agency to lend money to veterans, who are in many instances having difficulty raising capital under the provisions of the GI Bill of Rights; Report that the Veterans' League of America sends the journal a copy of a statement made by their secretary, Leo Johnson, recognizing the work of conscientious objectors during the war, particularly in medical service.

Reports that Catholics in the U.S. are in favor of laws prohibiting doctors or anyone else from giving information on birth control to mature men and women who want it. Reference to J.M. O'Neill's article "The Birth-Control Debate," published in the December 11, 1944 issue of the periodical; Criticism by priest James A. Griffin of Chicago for showing of sex-hygiene films; Ignorance of the fact that the health services are supported by the taxes of citizens of every faith, by the priests.

The article presents information on the health condition of people in the U.S. No mother would knowingly increase the chances that her child might eventually develop cancer, leukemia, bone disturbances or inability to produce healthy offspring. Yet the sober facts are that thousands of infants and children in the United States are needlessly exposed to more radiation in one year than would be allowed atomic energy workers in a lifetime.

Presents information on socio-political developments around the world. Discussion of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's military campaign in Western Europe; Threat of Southern Conservatives in the U.S. Congress to withdraw from the Democratic Party in order to join hands with the Republicans in fighting the New Deal; Emphasis on equality of opportunity for women; Extension of good medical services at low cost in the U.S.

Presents information on the prevailing opinion in farm and small-town homes of the U.S., gathered and sorted by the editors of "The Country Home,"a national magazine established as Farm and Fireside. Questions seeking straight yes and no reactions as to cigarettes, farm relief, prohibition, the drift to cities; the little red school-house, corporation farming, divorce and birth control; Details of the votes on public questions; View that the votes on tobacco and divorce reveal peaks of illiberality that will to metropolitan readers seem stupendous and, almost unbelievable; Comparison of rural and urban messages.

Focuses on the association between lack of medical care and poor health. Comparison between the infant death rate in America and that in 14 other countries; Analysis of the factors associated with infant mortality; Influence of health care on infant mortality; Comparison between primary prevention and secondary prevention of diseases; Discussion of poverty and health in Africa; Lack of a health system capable of delivering medical care to every citizen.

Comments on the inflationary effects of Medicare and Medicaid programs in the U.S. as of April 1967. Background on the medical-care cost crisis that began in the U.S. in 1966; Increase in the median fee of general practitioners since the launch of Medicare programs; Impact of Medicare programs on the billing scheme of U.S. hospitals.

Focuses on various issues related to availability of health care to citizens of the U.S. Data for the use of hospitals analyzed by income levels and age of users; Overview of plans offered by health insurance companies to elder people in the U.S.; Appraisal of the equalization of geographic availability of hospital care; Information on various means available for birth control; Dimensions of the senility problem approximating those of mental illness; Estimation of the unhospitalized senile place their number being at around 700,000.

Focuses on plans of the U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie to form a fourth party. Implications for U.S. politics; Agenda of the fourth party in elections; Creation of a national health care system; Report that most of the fourth party's hopes are focused on the 25 million young Americans who will be eligible to vote for the first time in 1972.

Focuses on the quality of medical care for the aged in the U.S. Poor conditions of nursing homes for the aged; Criticism on the government's treatment of nursing home care as a housing, not a health program; List of negative news reports about the nursing home industry.

Comments on the medical and nursing service of the Red Cross in the U.S. Role of the Red Cross in protecting the billeted American soldier against disease; Provision of a recreation huts for the hospital corps and the convalescent patients; Accounts on the changing and developing medical and surgical science pertaining to war.

Focuses on the significance of health issues in political campaign of presidential candidates Harry S. Truman and Robert Taft. Opposition by Taft supporters to the National Health Assembly called by the Truman Administration; Proposal by Truman to eradicate problems related to public health; Provisions in the National Health Insurance Act for workers' medical care; Objection of American Medical Association to federally subsidized health-insurance plan; Support of AMA to Taft's bill on health problems.

Focuses on the Red Cross' plan to create a system of free blood banks in the U.S. Shortfalls of existing arrangements for supplying blood; Obstacles to the Red Cross program in several cities; Estimates on the country's blood requirements; Background of the Red Cross' free blood program; Forms of opposition to free blood banks; Reasons of medical societies for opposing the Red Cross' free blood program; Attempts by physicians' groups to make free blood a part of socialized medicine.

Focuses on the civilian doctor shortage in the United States, resulting from the induction of at least one out of every three physicians. Lack of proper medical facilities in war-production areas; States which are hardest hit by the departure of physicians for service; Efforts taken by physician Morris Fishbein to provide medical care to needy people; Discussion of the sloppy handling of medical manpower; Need of a new government agency to supervise the relocation of physicians; Technical obstacles in the way of physician transfers; Necessity of a national health program aimed at preserving health rather than curing disease.

Focuses on the public health proposal under the New Deal program of social legislation in the U.S. Concern of the American Medical Association in maintaining the quality of medical care; Conflict between organized medicine and the proponents of social insurance; Public spending for the compulsory health insurance; Improvement in the health services accessibility; Effect of the scheme of public medicine to the advancement of medical practice.

Focuses on the insufficient medical personnel, equipment and care given to civilian war casualties in South Vietnam as of August 1968. Role of napalm in the increase in the number of civilian casualties; Statistics of the U.S. Agency for International Development on civilian war wounded; Action taken by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to the matter.

The article presents letters to the editor regarding content of previous issues, including several readers' reactions to the July 14, 1947 article "The Mystic World of Arnold Toynbee" by R. H. S. Crossman, the July 28, 1947 article "Washington Wire," and the June 30, 1947 article "Best Buys in Medical Care."

Focuses on Chicago convention of the Republican Party. Opposition of extreme Republican Tories to policies of New York Governor, Thomas E. Dewey; Condemnation of centralized federal power and excessive regulation by Republicans; Recommendation for the removal of unnecessary and destructive barriers for international trade, made by Republicans; Stimulation by federal aid of state plans to make medical and hospital service available to those in need; Consideration of Republican Party as the party of the middle class.

Discusses the need to reorganize the activities of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Criticisms against the involvement of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), a constituent of the HEW, in air and water prevention efforts in the country; Problem created by federal research into pollution; Concerns regarding the pesticide application policy in the country; Recommendations to the PHS on improving healthcare in the U.S.

Focuses on the provisions made by the U.S. government to overcome the problems of veterans after the World War II. Enactment of a legislation to provide medical care, pension in case of disability from military service and other benefits; Information on the GI Bills of Right which became law; Description of facilities provided by the U.S. government for veterans.