Health Care for America Now, a coalition of organizations that includes labor unions, large community-based membership groups, women's groups, doctors, nurses, small businesses, and leading netroots activists, will launch a $40 million campaign to push for quality, affordable health care for every American.

The conference will focus on creating a way to foster public sector science and eliminate the influence of politics and corporations on that science. The all-day conference includes sessions on limiting conflicts of interest on federal advisory committees, with a special emphasis on the FDA; and disclosing conflicts of interest in the medical literature. One session of particular interest for health care reporters who plan to cover the reform debates this fall and in the new year is "Setting the Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Agenda: What Role for Industry?"

The Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform will hold a briefing to discuss the economic and care-based issues facing long-term care in the United States.

Presentations by the Specialized Centers of Research on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health will look at gender differences in visceral pain and brain responses in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and responses of gastrointestinal tract to stress: Implication of CRF-signaling pathways.

Kids Risk Project is holding a symposium in Boston entitled "Managing Children's Risks: Putting All Children Ahead."

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing on "The Recent Salmonella Outbreak: Lessons Learned and Consequences to Industry and Public Health." Video webcast will be available.