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.
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2 events,This panel will tap into cutting-edge news, research, and innovations developing in the Bay Area. If you write about any health aspect of the boomer generation, you won't want to miss this event. Panelists include Laura L. Carstensen, professor of psychology and director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and Bay Area journalist Paul Kleyman, editor of the American Society on Aging's publication Aging Today and the national coordinator of the Journalists Exchange on Aging. |
2 events,The Mission of the Annual Employer Health & Human Capital Congress is to help the executive delegation of large employers maximize bottom-line corporate performance, improve overall employee health and productivity and achieve cost containment targets. |
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3 events,Sessions on the critical health care issues for 2008 with representatives from the Bush Administration, Congress, academia and the health care industry. The NHPC provides an overview of the administration and congressional policy agendas, as well as plenary and breakout sessions looking at hot topics like ensuring equitable access, fostering better care with better value, and managing system stressors. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt will present the president's HHS budget for fiscal year 2009 at 1 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in the auditorium of the Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave., SW, in Washington, D.C. |
3 events,The Poynter Institute and NewsU is hosting this online conversation with NBC News' chief science and health correspondent. |
2 events,The Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting to discuss new drug application (NDA) 22-173, ZYPREXA ADHERA (olanzapine pamoate depot) long-acting intramuscular injection (210 milligrams (mg), 300 mg, and 405 mg per/vial), Eli Lilly and Co., for the treatment of schizophrenia. A particular safety concern for discussion is the occurrence of severe somnolence in some patients who are administered this depot formulation of olanzapine. |
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3 events,Program topics will include self neglect, abuse of medications, forensic markets of abuse and elder abuse as a human rights issue.
Atul Gawande, author, New Yorker columnist and assoc. professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
Atul Gawande, author, New Yorker columnist and assoc. professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
Atul Gawande will speak at this session of the NIH Director's 2008-2009 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. Lectures are viewable live on the Web. |
3 events,EPA’s Office of Environmental Information and the Environmental Council of the States will hold the 2008 Toxic Release Inventory National Conference. |
3 events,The conference addresses the lifespan of autism spectrum disorders, including "Treating Autism as a Medical Disorder; Bringing Biomedical Treatments, Behavioral & Developmental Therapies Together." |
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3 events,This year's meeting features a mini-conference on ethics, public health and the environment. The keynote speaker will be Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. He will speak on ethical issues in universal health care reform. The national conference of the American College of Medical Quality will offer physicians and other quality professionals unique opportunities to learn about the newest developments in health care quality improvement. |
3 events,The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health hosts this event to expand the research base necessary to improve service systems for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families. The agenda will group presentations into tracks that address critical areas of inquiry. Sessions will offer important research and evaluation methods and results in these areas. |
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2 events,The National Institutes of Health presents a free annual training opportunity to help develop journalists' ability to critically evaluate and report on medical research. |
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