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Edited by Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller. 311 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1995. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-56362-X.

If we Americans were as committed to the bottom line as we are reputed to be, we would long since have arranged for every child's vaccinations. Nothing offers a better return on the dollar than measles inoculations, as editors Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller note in Medicine Worth Paying For. "Few medical technologies actually show a profit — save more money than they cost — but vaccines for preventing measles do. . . . Over a twenty-year period starting in 1963 . . . a savings of $5 billion from reductions in later health care and increased productivity was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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