Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, you've done a great job. Thank you so much.

Status of Women committee  How much time do we have? I'm happy to put this in a report for you.

Status of Women committee  Do you want me to talk to this, then?

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure I could do this justice in a minute. There were so many things that were tabled. Let me see, what did we talk about?

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to do that.

Status of Women committee  The only thing I would add, Ms. Young, is that there are provinces that have eating disorder programs. Some of them have eating disorder programs for adults, some of them have them for children and adolescents, and some have both. There are provinces that do not have these servic

Status of Women committee  We have the advantage now of social networking and other means which we can use to get this message out. Public health announcements are really important. Working with people who have had the disorder, who are in some way visible to the public and are known to the public and are

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  The final part of my discussion listed what we need to do. If it's okay with you, I'm going to read my points. I have seven bullet points that I think we need to do. We need to improve early identification of young people with eating disorders. That means comprehensive education

Status of Women committee  I think the way we did it at Sick Kids is there were champions for eating disorders when we came in. We fought long and hard within our hospital to make sure this was an important issue that needed to be attended to, because there were no other resources in the province of Ontari

Status of Women committee  Do you want to speak? Go ahead.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. The studies that I do are really on the medical complications of eating disorders. We have a huge NIH study looking at the treatment of osteoporosis in young adolescents with eating disorders. That's been funded by the National Institutes of Health for seven or eigh

Status of Women committee  The studies I quoted you were studies that were done in combination in the U.S. and the U.K. Together there may be now about 15 to 20 studies looking at family-based treatment, and if you look at those studies, depending on how long you follow out the patients in those studies, w

Status of Women committee  I think we probably are near there for a success rate at least in our program. I'm sure April can speak to her program as well.

Status of Women committee  Yes.