But the critics and supporters agree one of the British national health service's biggest challenges, as it enters its seventh decade, are the mounting cost of new technology and medicines, and an aging population.
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Those barriers are expected to cost millions of dollars apiece, and they might not be easily adapted to use in the agingNew York subway system.
In the topsy-turvy AL East, the declining Boston Red Sox are slashing April beer prices at Fenway, while the agingNew York Yankees are picking from the spring training scrap heap to fill out their roster.
He said the shuttle trip -- during which he will be subjected to a battery of tests to determine the physical effects of space on a person of Glenn's age -- should help provide new insights into aging that could help people on Earth.