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 Council on Disabilities will commemorate the Americans with Disabilities Act's 20th anniversary with the 2010 National Summit on Disability Policy. Possible issues to be discussed include civil rights, employment, disability statistics and data education, health care, homeland security, housing, international, telecommunications and technology, and transportation. |
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2 events,The 2010 National Conference on Statistics, hosted by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, will break from previous workshop-heavy events and instead offer a more conference-centric three-day event. The focus will be the present and future of health research and statistics. |
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3 events,AHCJ has sponsored 14 journalists to take part in a two-day workshop at the CDC about covering influenza. The workshop includes a series of on-the-record sessions with CDC experts to prepare front-line journalists for the upcoming flu season. Public health experts are providing a primer on the flu, examine how it is being tracked, expectations for vaccines and antivirals, and what communities can do to deal with the fallout. AHCJ's Atlanta chapter will gather to celebrate the beginning of the end of a torrid summer (global warming, anyone?). This social meeting will coincide with the CDC Influenza Workshop for journalists. We're inviting the journalists attending the workshop to join us. |
2 events,This meeting of the Department of Health and Human Services' National Vaccine Advisory Committee will be headlined by a report from the H1N1 Vaccine Safety Risk Assessment Working Group. Seasonal flu will also be discussed. |
2 events,As part of the National Vital Statistics Report, the National Center for Health Statistics has released provisional 2009 data on "Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths." |
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2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is scheduled to release a summary of ambulatory care delivered in 2007, with the key topic being visits to doctors' offices. |
2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a brief of national data from 2007 and 2008 which shows that prescription drug use continues to increase.
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