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Yesterday’s positive vote for Arena Pharmaceuticals’ lorcaserin raises the prospect that patients could soon have the first new drug therapy for weight loss in more than a decade. But as Dow Jones Newswires reports, we’re not quite there yet.

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Here’s what’s making health news this morning:

Are You Mom Enough? (Time): Featuring a provocative cover photo of a mother breast-feeding her three-year-old child, the magazine explores attachment parenting. Its three main tenets are extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and “baby wearing,” in which infants are physically attached to their parents by slings.

Read the rest here:  A.M. Vitals: Extended Breast Feeding, Obesity Drug and Heart Devices

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation to create a statewide health-insurance exchange.

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A Democratic congresswoman and Republican congressman are edging forward in the effort to change how Medicare pays doctors.

See more here:  Washington Wire: Progress on How Medicare Pays Doctors

Also: The FDA warns about bone-strengthening drugs; Washington will pay primary-care doctors more; and a patients’ pain group folds hours after senators announce a probe.

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More adults went without needed medical treatment, a dental visit or routine check-ups in 2010 than a decade earlier, according to a new study.

In 2010, some 21% of adults under the age of 65 told a government survey that they had an unmet health-care need, 20% said they hadn’t been able to get into a doctor’s office and 39% said they hadn’t had a dental visit.

Roche Drug to Raise ‘Good’ Cholesterol Fails (WSJ): The drug’s failure in a large human trial spelled a setback for pharmaceutical companies that see an opportunity in medicines that seek to ward of heart disease by raising so-called “good” cholesterol. Competitors Merck and Eli Lilly said they remain confident in late-stage drugs in their pipelines that work similarly.

As many as three million Americans have Type 1 diabetes, a disease which can be neither be prevented, nor cured.

Just in time for the start of tanning season, a federal task force is formally recommending that physicians counsel children, adolescents and young adults with fair skin about minimizing ultraviolet-light exposure to cut the risk for skin cancer.

Everyone knows there’s an obesity epidemic in America. Now the question is: How much heavier are Americans going to get?

Obesity rates largely leveled off in the U.S. a decade ago, suggesting the worst might have been over. But about one-third of Americans are still obese, and a new study out Monday predicts that percentage will climb to 42% by 2030.