But in the past year, the couple's growing medical infirmities had begun to control their lives.
But its approach to a desperate, and growing, medical need may yet find some imitators.
Indeed, there is a growing medical debate over whether the changes have done more harm than good.
Their report reflects a growing medical interest in understanding differences in the way major diseases affect men and women.
Some analysts were skeptical that insurance companies would be able to keep raising prices to cover growing medical costs if employers were cutting costs as the economy slows.
Francis Wilkinson, a campaigning lawyer at the family bar, points to growing medical evidence about the stress suffered by child witnesses.
There is also growing medical concern about unstaffed tanning salons, where customers stand in booths and receive a tan under lamps using intensive ultra-violet rays.
Is it outrageous to hope that, faced with a growing medical emergency, the United States could develop a similarly comprehensive and instantaneous system?
She found that obtaining a permit for home businesses like teaching piano, tutoring and even growing medical marijuana was easy, without public hearings or great expense.
"China is one of the fastest growing medical device markets with significant scale opportunities," Medtronic's executive vice president, Chris O'Connell, said in a news release.
VEBA needs to sell, either directly to Fiat or through an IPO, to raise money for the growing medical bills of retired car workers.
