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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3 events,APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health.
The Center for Connected Health's 2008 Symposium will be "Who Provides, Who Decides, Who Pays: Consumers, Clinicians and Business Models in the Connected Era." |
3 events,Roger Kornberg of Stanford University Medical School and 2006 Nobel Prize winner will discuss "The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription" at this session of the NIH Director's 2008-2009 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. Lectures are viewable live on the Web. |
2 events,AHCJ is a sponsor of the 6th Annual Missouri Health Policy Summit, hosted by the Center for Health Policy at the University of Missouri. |
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2 events,Virginia Lee, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at UPenn Medical School will discuss "TDP-43: A New Class of Proteinopathies in Neurodgenerative Diseases" at this session of the NIH Director's 2008-2009 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. Lectures are viewable live on the Web. |
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2 events,The Food and Drug Administration encourages professional writers and journalists with a specialty interest in medicine, health, and technology to explore the wealth of scientific research to be found at FDA and to tour the Office of Science and Technology Laboratories at the Science Writers Symposium. |
3 events,Jim Pickett of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago; Johnathan Briggs, foundation spokesman and former Tribune reporter; and Rev. Doris Green will discuss AIDS/HIV and the need for more prevention efforts. Experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Industries Group will present an in-depth look at President-elect Obama's health reform plan. |
2 events,Webinar sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures |
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3 events,The committee advises the Secretary, CDC and HRSA on the full range of issues including objectives, strategies, policies and priorities for HIV and STD prevention, care and treatment efforts. This new Committee encourages strong inter-agency collaboration across the spectrum of prevention and care. The Advisory Committee meets twice per year.
Philadelphia's AHCJ chapter will host a free workshop on health care reporting featuring guest lecturers Gary Schwitzer, associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, and Kathleen Fairfield, MD, DrPH, a medical editor with HealthNewsReview.org and clinician-scientist at Maine Medical Center. They will share their data on how news organizations have performed on 10 criteria for accurate, balanced and complete coverage; reflect on trends observed in the coverage of health care news; and provide tips about evaluating claims made about new health care treatments, tests, products and procedures. |
3 events,This webcast is presented by the Alabama Public Health Training Network. |
2 events,This year's American College of Physicians conference will focus on the impact of low health literacy on health care quality, medication labels, physicians' practices and the linkages between literacy and health literacy. |
4 events,PricewaterhouseCoopers has partnered with the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) to host "Proposals to policy: A national conversation on health care reform." The program will address the president-elect's health care reform plans and the impact those policy decisions will have on employers, hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, national and local policy makers, government and consumers. The American Cancer Society offers resources for people trying to quit smoking, including links to local activities and resources. The Committee will meet in open session to hear updates of the research program in the Laboratory of DNA Viruses, Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA. The Committee will also meet in a Closed Session to discuss the intramural research program. |
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Obama presidency: Does his health plan stand a chance?What lies ahead for health reform? The candidates made lots of promises during the campaign and now the time has come to deliver on them. Will the new president really be able to bring insurance coverage to more Americans given the country's other financial problems and the growing deficit? Will we again fall back on an incremental approach? Our next Talking Health program will feature two experts who have been following the politics of health reform for a long time and two journalists who will give suggestions for covering the story for the next year nationally and locally. They will be taking questions from the audience, so submit questions today! Webinar sponsored by National Conference of State Legislatures |
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