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 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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2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a data brief covering emergency department visits for chest and abdominal pain between 1999 and 2008. |
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This 39th Annual Meeting includes a wide range of topics such as international drug development and collaboration, pharmacometrics, pharmacogenomics, and specific sessions concerning biologics, nutraceuticals, and drug therapy in special populations. |
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3 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a data brief on educating teenagers about sex in the U.S. |
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Seminar 1This 10-month program allows mid-career journalists to pursue a significant reporting project examining health care systems. Guidance is provided through customized seminars on health performance, conference calls and e-mail consultations with AHCJ fellowship leaders. Hosted by AHCJ's Chicago ChapterChicago health journalists will gather for networking and then hear from Dr. David Mayer, co-producer of the award-winning film, "The Faces of Medical Error … From Tears to Transparency: The Story of Lewis Blackman," and a leader on transparency in health care. |
3 events,Hosted by AHCJ's SF Bay Area ChapterBillions of dollars in stimulus money has been allocated to medical and scientific research, funding thousands of medical research projects and scientific infrastructure awarded to individual scientists, one grant at a time. At the University of California, San Francisco, laboratories are humming with researchers who are creating the next generation of genetically inspired drugs and personalized therapies. The situation offers excellent health care reporting opportunities that combine economics, politics, and medical science. If you have never covered UCSF, this is your opportunity to learn how. |
3 events,The federal Institute of Medicine is holding a workshop on monitoring (and understanding) the health effects of the Gulf oil spill. According to the release, the mission of the workshop will be to "provide scientific and community feedback on the design and methodology to be used in the National Institutes of Health's Gulf Worker Study." |
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2 events,The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's research symposium will focus on inflammation and the immunities and infections that surround it. The agenda includes presentations on microbe hunting, immunology and global health. |
2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a data brief covering electronic medical record adoption and use in home health and hospice. |
2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a statistical summary of family structure and children's health in the United States. The data will be taken from the National Health Interview Survey from 2001 to 2007.
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