A bill that would allow Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc. to build a proposed $151 million hospital in Olive Branch, Miss. has been introduced in the Mississippi Legislature and is making its way through the committee system.

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N.C. regulators have denied Novant Health Inc.’s plans to expand into the Triangle.

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More than two-thirds of Texans polled in a recent survey say they support banning smoking in all indoor work and public places.

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Cambridge Health Alliance will lose 12 percent of its staff through a combination of layoffs, attrition and retirements. CHA will close six community health centers and will stop admitting patients overnight to Somerville Hospital, although emergency services there will remain available. Officials there said the magnitude of current and future financing challenges, coupled with the soured economy have put their whole system in jeopardy, forcing the cuts.

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PSS World Medical Inc. beat Wall Street estimates with robust earnings in its third quarter of 30 cents per share, a 39.8 percent increase over the prior-year period and two cents higher than analysts had projected. (PSSI) (CAH) (MCK)

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Drug maker Sepracor Inc. said it will cut about 530 positions — 20 percent of its workforce — as well as 410 contract sales workers due to uncertainties in the health care sector and anticipated competition from generics to its marketed drugs.

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Concierge medicine provider WhiteGlove House Call Health Inc. is now serving the San Antonio market.

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Colorado’s congressional representatives voted along party lines on President Barack Obama’s $819 billion economic stimulus package, with Democrats supporting it and Republicans opposed.

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Garnet Biotherapeutics, a clinical stage regenerative medicine company, said Thursday it raised $10.4 million in a private stock sale. (SFE)

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Inova Health System is starting a new $1 million fund at George Mason University to flow toward joint life sciences research between the two frequent partners.

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