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• AGING
  HealthDay, 11/20
  Too Few Older Adults Get Recommended Screenings

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• CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  Sanford Herald, 11/20
  Funding cuts hurt Smart Start programs
• WBTV Charlotte, 11/20
  Daycare center target of bomb threats
• CHRONIC DISEASE & INJURY PREVENTION
  NBC17, 11/20
  Report: 20-Somethings Can Go 2 Years Between Paps
• NPR, 11/20
  New Guidelines Issued On Cervical Cancer Screening
• HealthDay, 11/20
  New Pap Test Guidelines: Start Later, Have Fewer
• HealthDay, 11/20
  No Immediate Changes Expected in Mammogram Coverage
  HealthDay, 11/20
  Task Force Member Defends Mammography Guidelines
• News14 Carolina, 11/20
  Patients react to new mammogram recommendations
• HealthDay, 11/20
  Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes
• HealthDay, 11/20
  Great American Smokeout '09: Time to Quit
• News14 Carolina, 11/20
  Great American Smokeout visits college campuses
• HealthDay, 11/20
  Toddlers, Obese Kids Suffer Most From Smoke
• MSNBC, 11/19
  Southeast, Appalachia Suffer from Highest Obesity Rates
• U.S. News and World Report, 11/19
  What We Know About How to Quit Smoking
• WSOC-TV Charlotte  11/20
  Pedestrian Killed On North Tryon Street
• WCNC-TV Charlotte  11/20
  Man crossing the street hit and killed
• Obese SC man dies after 8 months in same recliner
• COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
  News and Observer, 11/20
  Drugmakers rush back into market for vaccines
  

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• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
  Gaston Gazette, 11/20
  Former sex trade prisoner talks about the horrors of human trafficking
• WSOC-TV Charlotte  11/20
  N.C. Female Inmates Allege Sexual Assaults In Prison 
• The Watauga Democrat 11/20
  Women in Black stand against violence
• DSS
  NBC17, 11/20
  Father Charged With Abusing 7-Week-Old Son
• NBC17, 11/20
  Mother Accused Of Leaving 9-Month-Old Baby In Car While Shopping At Carolina Premium Outlets
• Greensboro News & Record, 11/20
  Editorial: A precious life cut short
• Kinston Free Press, 11/20
  Kennedy Home runaways found
• WSOC-TV Charlotte  11/20
  More Charges Filed In Murder Of Fayetteville Girl
• The Fayetteville Observer, 11/20
  McNeill charged with rape, murder in 5-year-old's death
• Charlotte Observer, 11/20
  DSS Giving Tree

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E

• EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
  Winston-Salem Journal, 11/20
  Surry County paramedics are the best of the best
• EPIDEMIOLOGY
  HealthDay, 11/20
  Vicks Nasal Spray Recalled Due to Bacteria
  
• Kinston Free Press, 11/20
  NC appeals court considers lawsuit against medical officials who thought man was dead
• WBTV Charlotte, 11/20
  Suspect who killed Durham man also cut off his penis, autopsy reports
• Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald, 11/20
  Mercury found in Lake Gaston fish

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F

• FLU
  News14 Carolina, 11/20
  Health officials join faith, flu shots
• HealthDay, 11/20
  Flu Worries Shouldn't Affect Travel Plans: CDC (scroll down)
  
• NBC17, 11/20
  Wake County To Hold H1N1 Vaccine Clinics
• The Durham Herald Sun 11/20
  At businesses, some take extra precautions against H1N1
• Coping with the flu
• News and Observer, 11/19
  A healthy partnership against flu
  
• New York Times, 11/19
  New Cases of Flu Drop on College Campuses
  
• Sizable number harbor doubts about H1N1 vaccine, threat
• Asheville Citizen-Times, 11/20
  Schools host H1N1 clinics
• USA Today, 11/20
  Last year's flu shot may help ward off swine flu, study shows
• FOOD-(MEDICINE-)BORNE ILLNESS
  USA Today, 11/20
  P&G recalls Vicks nasal spray after bacteria found
• New York Times, 11/19
  Senate Bill Would Require E. Coli Testing
  

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• HEALTH CARE
  WITN Greenville, 11/20
  Buying Meds In Bulk May Save You Money
• HEALTH SERVICE REGULATION
  Winston-Salem Journal, 11/20
  Two nursing homes get grants [3rd brief]

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• INSURANCE
  HealthDay, 11/20
  No Immediate Changes Expected in Mammogram Coverage

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• MH/DD/SAS
  New Bern Sun Journal, 11/20
  Group fights underage drug and alcohol use
• News14 Carolina, 11/20
  SADD looks to educated N.C. students on making right calls
• Whiteville News Reporter, 11/20
  Columbus at top in prescriptions for controlled substances
  
• Kinston Free Press, 11/20
  Stop addiction

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O

• ORAL HEALTH
  WFMY Greensboro, 11/20
  Hundreds Line Up for Free Dental Clinic

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P

• POVERTY
  News14 Carolina, 11/20
  Rise in poverty seen among CMS students

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S

• STATE GOVT
  Asheville Citizen-Times, 11/20
  Legislators call for Blue Cross/Blue Shield probe

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• WOMEN’S & CHILDREN’S HEALTH
  HealthDay, 11/20
  Toddlers, Obese Kids Suffer Most From Smoke
• MSNBC, 11/19
  Mammogram Advice Accurate but Not ‘Right’
• USA Today, 11/20
  New guidelines: Women can get Pap smears every two years
• Breast cancer debate must strike a balance
• New York Times, 11/20
  Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests
  
• WRAL-TV, 11/20
  Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps
  
• Charlotte Observer, 11/20
  Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
• Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps |

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Updated: November 20, 2009