major health

Lack of sleep needs to be treated as a major health issue, according to the Mental Health Foundation.

Senator Grassley has sent a letter out to ten major health IT vendors seeking information on health IT problems and flaws.

The letter can be retrieved from this link (PDF) at the Washington Post.

Read the whole thing.

Lawmakers in both parties raised concerns Thursday that the health-care reform bill offered by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus a day earlier would impose too high a cost on middle-class Americans and said they will seek to change the legislation to ease that potential burden.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major health insurer says the government can save big money on health care by sending patients to cheaper, more efficient doctors, reducing hospital visits by the elderly and cutting down on unnecessary care....