Breakthrough drugs and treatments are giving new hope for slowing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and ALS. But if that progress slows, the societal and economic cost to the U.S. could be high. On January 31, POLITICO will convene lawmakers, officials, and experts to discuss the path forward for better collaboration among health systems and industry, the risks and benefits and what new opportunities are emerging to imp...

Now more than ever before, the work government employees do is very, very stressful. In order to make your career in government sustainable, you need to be thinking about the full lifecycle, from entry into government to family life to retirement and so much more. You need to take the entire federal government employee lifecycle – or whole fed – into consideration when making your retirement and health insurance decisions. But how...

Course Description In the past decade, the treatment of peritoneal metastases has gained interest from oncologic communities around the world. During the 1990’s, the first pioneering centers began treating patients with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). Prior to HIPEC, patients were treated with palliative support and only guaranteed a few months to live. Today, if a patient with peritoneal metastases is provided with pr...

On behalf of the ICCEC 2016 Planning Committee, we invite you to attend the 12th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation taking place on May 19-22, 2016 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. This series of conferences was started by George J. Agich and Stella Reiter-Theil in 2003 to fill the significant gap in the field between the explosion of clinical ethics, ethics committees, and ethics consultation services around...