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 World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress will explore a constellation of issues related to medical tourism, including partnerships with overseas hospitals, regional tourism breakdowns, legal issues, insurance issues and patient safety. |
3 events,"Comparative effectiveness research and personalized medicine," a one-day conference hosted by the National Pharmaceutical Council and the Personalized Medicine Coalition, will look into the science, policy and business of both subjects. |
2 events,Loyola University Chicago bioethics and law professor Heidi Malm will address the "value-laden or 'moral' judgments" faced by health care professionals in a live 2:30 p.m. webcast. |
2 events,The University of Missouri Center for Health Policy, medical school and Office of Continuing Medical Education are bringing former Senate Mmajority/Minority Leader Tom Daschle and former surgeon general Dr. Richard Carmona, as well as community health and disparities expert Darcy Freedmanm, among others, to discuss the politics and policy of health care reform and public health in Missouri. |
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2 events,The second Faces of a Healthy Future: National Conference to End Health Disparities will, according to the press release, "assess the progress toward the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) and Healthy People 2010's goals." |
3 events,The 2009 American Institute for Cancer Research Conference will address food, nutrition, physical activity and weight management in relation to cancer. |
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3 events,Stories about food, nutrition, and the health impacts of eating are all over the media lately. The topic is especially significant for kids, who continue to tip the scales more than their peers even a decade ago and risk heading into adulthood with medical conditions that used to be for adults only. What can be done? Bay Area experts are doing some good work to solve this problem; our speakers are among this group, and share some insights and recent work that will inspire story ideas that will resonate with your readers and listeners. Mandatory RSVPs by 3 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11. Food safety advocates at the nonprofit Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention are holding a briefing to discuss a new report titled "Long-term effects of foodborne illness, children most effected with serious complications." |
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2 events,On the 10th anniversary of IOM's landmark study "To Err is Human," Consumers Union will focus on the realization of as-yet unachieved patient safety goals. Speakers will include AHCJ president and ProPublica senior reporter Charles Ornstein and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill. |
5 events,GerontoNet, a network promoting research and trials related to aging and the diseases that come with it, will bring experts together to discuss clinical trials in nursing homes, as well as trials of diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia and other age-related diseases. The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release "Born a bit too early — Recent trends in late pre-term birth." According to the release, the report will "display trends in the number and rate of babies born one to three weeks short of 'term' from 1990 to 2006." It will also analyze contributing factors, both physiological/medical and demographic. AHCJ member Paul Kleyman, editor of the Ethnic Elders Newsbeat at New America Media, is moderating a live-and-call-in media briefing on "Health Reform Gaps for Ethnic Elders." The conference will focus greater attention on closing the health disparities gaps and on confronting socioeconomic barriers to healthy aging among ethnic elders. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will present "Know What to Do about the Flu," a Webcast aimed at people with Diabetes. |
5 events,AHCJ and Science Writers In New York are organizing this panel to discuss the proliferation of partnerships between news outlets and government agencies and businesses. The panel will address how the partnerships relate to the recession, maintaining ethics in the face of recession, transparency of partnership relationships and the possibility of maintaining both partnerships and strong journalism. The CDC, AARP, AMA and the Gerontological Society of America will release "Promoting Preventive Services for Adults 50-64: Community and Clinical Partnerships," a resource that, according to the press release, will include a list of recommended preventive services and screenings, strategies to promote delivery of preventive services, a summary of data and a monitoring system. AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman will join a panel to talk about health care reform and its future. Other panelists will include The Washington Post's Ezra Klein, Yale School of Medicine's Dr. Lisa Sanders, filmmaker Roger Weisberg, and authors Julie Salamon and Shannon Brownlee. |
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2 events,The FTC will host "From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?," a free two-day event with workshops geared toward "journalists, privacy experts, direct marketers, online advertisers, academics, and consumer advocates." The workshops will explore new economic models for journalism, online advertising and any changes the government can make in regulations or tax code to facilitate such things.
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