Health+Issues

The first artificial heart was mad ans transplanted into the first patient in 1963, click this link to e-notes to get more information. Inauguration of Yale Epilepsy Center at West Haven VA – 1967 || The Yale Epilepsy Center began about 40 Years ago (1967) and was one of the very few hospitals to use the new artificial heart on patients, after it was improved and patcents survived after 4 days. The first artaficial heart the patient died 4 days after the surgury.
 * || ==The Yale Epilepsy Center== || [[image:http://epilepsy.yale.edu/images/ribbon-cutting.jpg width="250" height="160" caption="HIstory of Epilepsy Center."]]

=Drugs:= In this article you will find pictures and names of the diffrent drugs that people used and overdosed on, and some even took their lives with these drugs. The most common were: weed...heroin...and crack.

http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/modern/the%2060%27s/the.htm#Drugs%20Take%20Their%20Toll
This is another link that tells you about some of the people who died rom drugs, and some updated news on the 1960's big drug overdose problem.

This link gives you pictures and names of the leading caused deaths in the 1960's.

=The Medicare and Medicaid programs are created:=

http://www.bcbs.com/about/history/1960s.html
Makeing a program like Medicare would have been prohibitive without the established Blue Cross and Blue Shield infrastructure. In the five years following Medicare's inception, Blue Cross processed 63.4 million claims totaling approximately $19.2 billion. In 2001, the Blue System continued to process the overwhelming majority of Medicare claims totaling $163 billion.

=Womens Health Issues:= http://www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/history/healthmvmt.htm


 * //Women’s health organizations grew out of the health movement of the 1960s-1970s, today the roles and relationships with the more professionalized/disease-specific women’s health organizations that the proliferation of these groups dilutes the role of women’s health organizations as "information brokers for women in the U.S.//**

=Birth control:=

The approval of the birth control played a major role in the sexual liberation of women that took place during the 1960's. For the first time women were free to enjoy spontaneous sex without fear of pregnancy. Today it's estimated that about 16 million women use the Pill, so over all birth control was used to prevent pragnacy, and was a big issue in the 1960's.

http://www.fashion-era.com/the_1960s_mini.htm In this link you will find the chelsea look*