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.

The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a data brief on the incidence of pressure ulcers among nursing home residents in 2004.

The National Center for Health Statistics will release the 2008 health report card issued to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Congress. According to the NCHS Web site, the annual compilation features over 150 tables and provides the most recent figures on vital statistics, disease prevalence, health care utilization and other health topics.

In an open conference, the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will discuss and recommend strains of the influenza virus to be included in the vaccine to be distributed in the upcoming flu season. The committee will also consider adding a second B strain to the current season's vaccination as well as "the conducting of clinical studies of pandemic influenza vaccine in the pediatric population in the absence of an influenza pandemic."