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, part of the CDC, is expected to release "Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2007," a report that seeks to answer the question "who gets injured and why?" |
2 events,The Alliance for Health Reform is sponsoring a briefing at the National Press Club addressing the obstacles that must be overcome or dealt with if the health care reform effort is to cross the finish line. |
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2 events,Emory University's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit's 2009 Southeast Symposium will cover everything from organic food and careers in environmental health to health disparities and classroom ventilation. |
4 events,A Workshop for Journalists on Understanding the Relationship Between Faith, Culture and HealthIn advance of its annual conference, the Religion Newswriters Association is cooperating with AHCJ to put on a workshop focused on the intersection of health and faith.
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4 events,Every four years, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal host an International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. This year, journal editors and publishers and researchers from around the world will gather to discuss how best to increase the quality and credibility of their publications. This seminar, part of the NIH Women's Health Seminar Series, will examine depression as it relates to bone health, cancer, heart disease and various fetal antecedents. |
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3 events,Dr. Tracy W. Gaudet of Duke University will present a one-hour lecture as part of the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine complementary and integrative medicine consult service lecture series. |
3 events,The CDC's Healthy Aging Research Network will host Promoting Environmental and Policy Change to Support Healthy Aging, a conference which will "address challenges amenable to environmental and policy change; evidence that supports specific approaches and their outcomes; and promising strategies for practice."
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4 events,Join the Washington, D.C.-metro area chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists for a roundtable on the challenges and opportunities of covering health care reform. |
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2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release the first data on 2009 health insurance coverage online. |
2 events,An Atlanta Chapter event
The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ is piggybacking off a just-announced town hall forum on health care reform. If you can't make the start of the town hall, drop by later on. And plan to meet up afterward in the hotel bar in the lobby, the Parasol, to chat about health care and other issues.The town hall event is free and open to the public. |
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3 events,A New York City Metro Chapter eventTuberculosis (TB) is one of the most devastating epidemics of our time. But it receives relatively little attention from the media in relation to the 1.8 million deaths (and 9.3 million cases) it causes annually. Even worse, is the growing epidemic of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB), which is greatly undermining gains in controlling TB particularly among those with HIV/AIDS. Recent data show that 25 percent of people dying of TB are HIV . An expert panel of scientists and journalists will make the case that health journalists must be prepared to cover MDR-TB and to persuade editorial leadership of its urgency. The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release "Increases in fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics." According to the release, the report "examines trends in fatal |
2 events,The American Journal of Nursing's 2009 conference, Advancing Excellence in Nursing Practice, will address topics like delivering safe, cost-effective care, relevant new state and federal regulations, and ethical, legal and interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. |
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