The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.

This symposium, which will be videocast, will present advances in pain research and pain management, featuring work done through NIH support. Topics will include Moving Basic Discoveries to the Clinic and Clinical Findings to the Laboratory. A poster session will include a broad selection of current pain research findings presented by junior investigators. Members of the extramural scientific community, the NIH scientific community, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., and CMS Acting Administrator Kerry Weems will announce the details of a major new initiative to improve drug and medical device safety.