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• NY Times: Colonscopies Explain Why US Leads the World in Health Expenditures
• N&O: UK to Start Regulating E-Cigarettes as Medicines
• TBJ: Hospitals Call Out Against Tax Plans
• Winston-Salem Journal: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center reports 3rd Qtr Overall Loss
• Fayetteville Observer: Cumberland commissioners tentatively approve budget, mental health merger
• Pharmalot: Glaxo Dismisses Exec Over Fabricated Data, Retraction Sought
• N&O: House Budget Would Cut 1-employee Child Fatality Task Force
• N&O: Fight against fluoride in water comes to Orange and Durham counties
• Charlotte Observer: Virtual ICU Lets Doctors Monitor Patients from Afar
• Winston-Salem Journal: Novant Posts 10% Increase in Excess Revenue
• N&O: Sen. Phil Berger Pushes Efforts to Cap Sales Tax Refunds from Non-profits
• Charlotte Observer: Court Ruling May Open Up Breast Cancer Gene Tests
• Winston-Salem Journal: Analyst: E-cigarettes Will Gain in Popularity
• Pharmalot: Another Glaxo Scandal In China: Bribing Docs To Prescribe Meds?
• Charlotte Observer: Away from Afghanistan violence, kids have fun
• Fayetteville Observer: Native American Myopathy: A breakthrough in rare disease that only affects Lumbees
• Fayetteville Observer: Fort Bragg's Womack hospital announces weekly closings as a result of budget cuts
• Wilmington Star-News: Pender board votes to merge DSS, health agency

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