Mind and body health

At a major health technology meeting, technology advocates, hospitals and others put their heads together to see how to get physicians to embrace health IT.

The system would use members' demographic information and PHR data. Some worry the insurer's actions are too intrusive.

Hospital leaders call the company the most difficult to deal with, but United says the survey is questionable.

Artificial sweeteners are considered safe, but questions persist as to what role they play in helping patients lose weight of if, in fact, they cause people to eat more.

Experts caution that the case, involving an underlying mitochondrial disorder, does not have broad application regarding vaccine safety.