Training & Events

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Calendar

Ongoing

Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference

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.

21st Annual DIA Conference on Marketing Pharmaceuticals in a Time of Change

This program is designed to provide a basic understanding of how the regulatory and legal environment has evolved and affects the marketing and promotion of pharmaceuticals. It also provides practical, day-to-day guidance on what can be learned from the latest FDA enforcement actions, and how companies can do their jobs better.

Tech Tools for Health Reporters

New Date & Location!

Whether you're a staff reporter or freelancer, you've undoubtedly heard that to survive in the media in the future, you'll need to blog, podcast, and Twitter. A few writers have become conversant in online technologies and are using them to the benefit of their careers. Many of the rest of us, though, may have experimented with a blog or used Facebook to find sources for a story, but are still waiting to see how the digital revolution is really going to help our work lives. We'll explore this question with a panel of folks who are using online technology or helping others to do so.

FDA Science Board to meet and discuss BPA, salmonella detection and more

The FDA's Science Board will hear updates and discuss Bisphenol A in FDA-regulated products. Working groups on economically motivated adulteration of FDA-regulated products and on rapid detection of salmonella in foods also will update the board on their work.

 

Data release: America’s uninsured crisis

At an hour-long briefing beginning at 11 a.m. EST, the NAS' Institute of Medicine will release a report on the consequences felt when a large part of the population is uninsured. Reporters will be given access to materials starting at 10 a.m. the previous day, but the information will be embargoed until the briefing.

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