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.

Professor Emeritus and Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institut Director Harold S. Luft, PhD, will speak on "Better Ways to Pay for Health Care" as part of the UCSF's Mini Medical School for the Public series on health care reform.

The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council will release "Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines," a report recommending updates to the guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. The guidelines, designed to balance risks and benefits for mothers and infants, were last revised in 1990. The revision accommodates changes in the American population, notably the rise in the percentage of women who are overweight or obese.