Task force: Screen kids, obesity treatment works

Monday, January 18, 2010 - 06:49 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children.

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