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,The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release the first data on outpatient surgery in 10 years. The data are embargoed until Noon EST. |
2 events,The National Association of Black Journalists is sponsoring a conference at the Morehouse School of Medicine to focus is on the health and wellbeing of the black community and empower journalists to better reach their audiences of the countless number of health issues that plague African Americans. |
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The fellowship program, supported by the CDC Foundation, will include presentations, roundtable discussions and lab tours on epidemiology, global disease prevention efforts, obesity, vaccine safety, pandemic flu preparedness, autism and many other topics. |
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3 events,Health insurance plans in the United States face an increased need to communicate with limited English proficient (LEP) members. In the State of California, plans are working to improve access to health care services – including translation and interpreting services – in part due to Senate Bill SB 853. Because of demographic and regulatory changes, health plans need to quickly ramp up their knowledge of the best practices and technologies that facilitate the provision of language services. Common Sense Advisory will convene health plans to share findings, best practices, and lessons learned. |
4 events,Atul Gawande, New Yorker magazine columnist and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School will speak about "Ignorance vs. Ineptitude: Science and the Causes of Failure in Medicine" as part of the NIH Director's 2008-2009 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. The National Center for Health Care Statistics is scheduled to release statistics on the role of International Medical Graduates in providing office-based medical care in 2005 and 2006. |
3 events,The theme of the Annual Meeting – "Our Planet and Its Life: Origins and Futures" – calls to mind that 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. New understanding of the underlying processes and mechanisms that fascinated Darwin continues to be the focus of intense research 150 years later. |
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4 events,In an open conference, the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will discuss and recommend strains of the influenza virus to be included in the vaccine to be distributed in the upcoming flu season. The committee will also consider adding a second B strain to the current season's vaccination as well as "the conducting of clinical studies of pandemic influenza vaccine in the pediatric population in the absence of an influenza pandemic." The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a data brief on the incidence of pressure ulcers among nursing home residents in 2004. The National Center for Health Statistics will release the 2008 health report card issued to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Congress. According to the NCHS Web site, the annual compilation features over 150 tables and provides the most recent figures on vital statistics, disease prevalence, health care utilization and other health topics. |
2 events,Those Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellows who are in Kansas will go to Topeka for briefings and meetings with state health policy experts. |
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3 events,This program is designed to provide a basic understanding of how the regulatory and legal environment has evolved and affects the marketing and promotion of pharmaceuticals. It also provides practical, day-to-day guidance on what can be learned from the latest FDA enforcement actions, and how companies can do their jobs better. |
6 events,New Date & Location! Whether you're a staff reporter or freelancer, you've undoubtedly heard that to survive in the media in the future, you'll need to blog, podcast, and Twitter. A few writers have become conversant in online technologies and are using them to the benefit of their careers. Many of the rest of us, though, may have experimented with a blog or used Facebook to find sources for a story, but are still waiting to see how the digital revolution is really going to help our work lives. We'll explore this question with a panel of folks who are using online technology or helping others to do so. The FDA's Science Board will hear updates and discuss Bisphenol A in FDA-regulated products. Working groups on economically motivated adulteration of FDA-regulated products and on rapid detection of salmonella in foods also will update the board on their work.
At an hour-long briefing beginning at 11 a.m. EST, the NAS' Institute of Medicine will release a report on the consequences felt when a large part of the population is uninsured. Reporters will be given access to materials starting at 10 a.m. the previous day, but the information will be embargoed until the briefing. |
5 events,The committee consists of 15 experts in fields associated with immunization who have been selected to provide advice and guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the control of vaccine-preventable diseases. The Institute of Medicine's 2009 Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public aims to advance and explore integrative medicine, the process of integrating the The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health will host its third annual summit on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health. Disparities and issues in the treatment of lupus, HIV/AIDS and oral health, among other things, will be discussed. |
2 events,Our Imperfect Craft: A Workshop for Writers Working as Journalists The Workshop is open to journalists who've been working for at least three years and for no more than eight. For the 2009 session, 20 journalists will be chosen by a panel of professionals, they will work with an assigned coach and with their peers on a project of their choosing.
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The 11 journalists in the the first class of AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows will spend a week studying public health issues at two Atlanta campuses of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Health journalism saves lives.
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