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New Weight Loss Aid? (HealthDay)
New Weight Loss Aid?
(HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- An amino acid called isoleucine may play an important role in weight loss, a new study suggests. [Yahoo! News: Health News]
Kidneys From Older Donors Suitable for Seniors (HealthDay)
Kidneys From Older Donors Suitable for Seniors
(HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Too many American seniors who need a new kidney have to wait longer than necessary for a transplant, researchers say. [Yahoo! News: Health News]
Device Helps Kids With Single-Sided Deafness (HealthDay)
Device Helps Kids With Single-Sided Deafness
(HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Bone-anchored hearing aids provide noticeable hearing improvement for children and teens with single-sided deafness, a new study finds. [Yahoo! News: Health News]
Scientists Spot Genetic 'Fingerprints' of Individual Cancers (HealthDay)
Scientists Spot Genetic 'Fingerprints' of Individual Cancers
(HealthDay) - HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have found a way to analyze the "fingerprint" of a cancer, and then use that fingerprint to track the trajectory of that particular tumor in that particular person. [Yahoo! News: Health News]
Video Animation: How Stents Work
Video Animation: How Stents Work - 
Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the hospital on Thursday for a stent procedure after reporting chest pains. See a computer animation showing how angioplasty and stents work to open narrowed coronary arteries. [Wall Street Journal - Health Videos]
Ultrasound Machines Go Portable
Ultrasound Machines Go Portable - 
Paul Glader looks at a new class of ultrasound machines that are small enough to fit in a doctor's lab-coat pocket. [Wall Street Journal - Health Videos]
Many patients may not fill new prescriptions: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Many people whose doctors start them on medications for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure may never fill those prescriptions, a new study suggests.
[Yahoo! News: Health News]
Newly Uninsured Turn To Community Health Centers
Newly Uninsured Turn To Community Health Centers - 
Community health centers, which offer low-cost care to people with little or no insurance, are increasingly important to keeping people healthy as high unemployment ravages the U.S. workforce. [Wall Street Journal - Health Videos]
Bill Clinton speaks out against childhood obesity (AP)
AP - Bill Clinton is officially back at work.
[Yahoo! News: Health News]
Survey Finds Many Men Complaining of Ill-Fitting Condoms (HealthDay)
Survey Finds Many Men Complaining of Ill-Fitting Condoms
(HealthDay) - HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Poorly fitting condoms not only boost the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, they also reduce sexual pleasure during intercourse, a new study has found. [Yahoo! News: Health News]
