function flipNews(item)
{
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	{
				case 0:
			{
				document.getElementById("news_mod").innerHTML='<b>“Potential Game-Changing” Confocal Technology Opening Eyes</b><br/>(Montvale, NJ) – Everyone knows screening endoscopy is today’s current standard of practice for detecting pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions of the colon. Yet, even with cutting-edge advances in ... <a href="?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=197">Read More!</a>';
				break;
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						case 1:
			{
				document.getElementById("news_mod").innerHTML='<b>PENTAX Medical gains focused strength from HOYA Merger</b><br/>(MONTVALE, NJ) &ndash; PENTAX Medical Company, long one of the market leaders in the  innovation and manufacture of medical imaging technologies for the GI, ENT and  pulmonary medical fields, recently... <a href="?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=197">Read More!</a>';
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	if(item==3)
	{
		item=0;
	}
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	setTimeout("flipNews(" + item + ")", 9000);	
}