PUBLIC LAW 103-43—JUNE 10, 1993 107 STAT. 161 TITLE VI—NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DI- ABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES SEC. 601. PROVISIONS REGARDING NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS. Subpart 3 of part C of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285c et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following section: "NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS PROGRAM "SEC. 434. (a) The Director of the Institute, in consultation 42 USC 285c-8. with the Director of NIH, shall establish a program of conducting and supporting research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities with respect to nutritional disorders, including obesity. "(b) In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall conduct and support each of the activities described in such subsection. "(c) In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall carry out activities to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding of nutritional disorders, including obesity, on the part of health professionals, patients, and the public through the effective dissemination of information.". (b) DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTERS. —Section 431 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285c-5) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following subsection: "(d)(1) The Director of the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in appropriations Acts, provide for the development or substantial expansion of centers for research and training regarding nutritional disorders, including obesity. "(2) The Director of the Institute shall carry out paragraph (1) in collaboration with the Director of the National Cancer Institute and with the Directors of such other agencies of the National Institutes of Health as the Director of NIH determines to be appropriate. "(3) Each center developed or expanded under paragraph (1) shall— "(A) utilize the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such research and training qualifications as may be prescribed by the Director; "(B) conduct basic and clinical research into the cause, diagnosis, early detection, prevention, control and treatment of nutritional disorders, including obesity and the impact of nutrition and diet on child development; "(C) conduct training programs for physicians and allied health professionals in current methods of diagnosis and treatment of such diseases and complications, and in research in such disorders; and "(D) conduct information programs for physicians and allied health professionals who provide primary care for patients with such disorders or complications.".
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