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Study Finds Strict Maternal Feeding Practices Not Linked To Child Weight Gain
A new study published online in the journal Obesity provides further evidence that strict maternal control over eating habits - such as determining how much a child should eat and coaxing them to eat certain foods - during early childhood may not lead to significant future weight gain in boys or girls. Instead, this behavior may be a response to concerns over a child"s increasing weight.
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Prevention Is The Highlight Theme Of This Year's ESC Congress
As the ESC Congress 2009 draws ever closer, the evidence in favour of a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of cardiovascular disease grows ever stronger. Prevention is the highlight theme of this year"s event, which will take place in Barcelona from 29 August to 2 September. Lifestyle factors are heavily on the agenda.
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Indian Authorities Asked To Stop Licensing Artemisinin-Only Malaria Drugs

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) asked state drug licensing authorities to avoid authorizing new licenses for single drug formulations of artemisinin and withdraw existing licences for these types of drugs by the end of this month, livemint.com reports. To prevent drug resistance, the WHO has advised against the use of drugs that only contain artemisinin to treat malaria and recommends using artemsinin in combination with other drugs. "India"s drug advisory body, the drug consultative committee, had in December approved the phasing out of the [artemisinin only] drug[s] from the market," livemint.com writes. H.G. Koshia, the commissioner of the food and drug control administration for the state of Gujarat, said, "The state department has received the last directive in this regard a couple of weeks ago, and we have already informed all existing licence holders to stop manufacturing. The brand recalls from the market is also in progress, though there aren"t many at present." According to livemint.com: "Ipca Laboratories Ltd., Themis Medicare Ltd., Plethico Pharmaceuticals Ltd., GVS Laboratories Ltd., Cipla and Lupin Ltd. are some of the top firms in the domestic anti-malaria market. These are also key suppliers to overseas markets through [the] WHO or direct channels, and most have already stopped making the product following [the] WHO"s warning on single oral therapy using artemisinin and its derivatives." R.B. Smartha, the managing director of Mumbai-based Interlink Marketing Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., said, "The impact of the DCGI order would not be big for the industry as the market for oral single formulation of artemisinin derivatives has already shrunk" (Pandeya/Unnikrishnan, 7/22). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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