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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.

Data release: Born a bit too early — Recent trends in late pre-term birth

The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release "Born a bit too early — Recent trends in late pre-term birth." According to the release, the report will "display trends in the number and rate of babies born one to three weeks short of 'term' from 1990 to 2006." It will also analyze contributing factors, both physiological/medical and demographic.

Media briefing: Health reform gaps for ethnic elders

AHCJ member Paul Kleyman, editor of the Ethnic Elders Newsbeat at New America Media, is moderating a live-and-call-in media briefing on "Health Reform Gaps for Ethnic Elders." The conference will focus greater attention on closing the health disparities gaps and on confronting socioeconomic barriers to healthy aging among ethnic elders.

GerontoNet Symposium on Clinical Trials in the frail elderly person

GerontoNet, a network promoting research and trials related to aging and the diseases that come with it, will bring experts together to discuss clinical trials in nursing homes, as well as trials of diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia and other age-related diseases.

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