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Risk Factors Of Disordered Eating In Overweight Youth Identified By U Of M Study
University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents" risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating. Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies, such as reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, placing a high importance on weight, and reporting having participated in unhealthy weight control behaviors, are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.
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House Panel Passes Protection For Drug Makers

The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment to their broad health reform bill giving drug makers 12 years of exclusive rights to market new biologic drugs, "a setback" to the administration and consumer advocates who hoped to make generic drugs more widely available, the Wall Street Journal reports. The panel voted 47-11 on the measure, which "would also allow "evergreening," the practice by pharmaceutical companies of making minimal adjustments to their drugs, such as creating extended-release versions, as a way to lengthen their monopoly." "Mr. Obama and some Democrats, including the energy committee chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., have pushed for getting generic versions of complex biologic drugs to the market in five to seven years, saying it would speed up access for consumers to cheaper generic brands and help reduce the country"s health-care costs," the Journal reports (Mundy, 8/1). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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