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 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.

The committee consists of 15 experts in fields associated with immunization who have been selected to provide advice and guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the control of vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Institute of Medicine's 2009 Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public aims to advance and explore integrative medicine, the process of integrating the
"full range of physical, psychological, social, preventive, and therapeutic factors known to be effective and necessary for the achievement of optimal health."

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health will host its third annual summit on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health. Disparities and issues in the treatment of lupus, HIV/AIDS and oral health, among other things, will be discussed.