More kids hospitalised due to eating disorders
3 October 2009
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Kids younger than ever are being diagnosed with early-onset eating disorders. Over the last year at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, doctors have diagnosed and hospitalised over 2000 patients aged 7-13 years old. Amanda Hoh reports.
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