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 CDC is holding its first conferences to address the obesity crisis in the United States. Weight of the Nation is designed to provide a forum to highlight progress in the prevention and control of obesity through policy and environmental strategies and highlight strategies that overcome barriers to the primary prevention of obesity for youth and adults in four settings: communities, medical care, schools, and workplaces.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices — made up of 15 HHS-selected experts on vaccine-related fields — will meet to discuss the development and formulation of a vaccine agaist the H1N1 influenza virus as well as determine the age and risk groups for vaccination.