Health Highlights: Dec. 3, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
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UAW to suspend jobs bank, rework health-care trust (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said on Wednesday the union would surrender job security protections and rework a historic retiree health- care trust in concessions intended to help U.S. automakers clinch government aid to survive a sales downturn.
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Health halo can hide the calories (International Herald Tribune)
Have Americans been seduced into overeating by the so-called health halo associated with certain foods and restaurants?
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AHIP Unveils Plan for Improved Health Care (Fox News)
A health-plan trade group on Tuesday unveiled a plan it believes will reduce health-care costs, allow for universal coverage and improve quality of care -- but only a few specifics were offered.
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UAW Agrees to Revise Health Plan, Suspend Jobs Bank (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto workers, responding to calls to help aid ailing car companies, agreed to delay payments to a union health-care fund and suspend a jobs bank that pays laid off union members.
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NW Side eatery closed for health violations (Chicago Tribune)
A Northwest Side restaurant was shut down late Tuesday--and remains closed today--after health inspectors found a fruit fly infestation in the kitchen and dining areas, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Piatto, 5304 W. Devon Ave., also was cited for two other violations, including a moldy ice machine and no sanitizing solution in an automatic dishwashing machine.
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Police break up Zimbabwe health protest (MSNBC)
Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic.
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TV, Video Game Time Affects Children's Likelihood of Obesity, Other Health Risks (Washington Post)
· Children who spend a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web are more likely to get fat, start smoking and face other health risks when they get older, researchers said yesterday.
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Health insurers offer reform plan (The Columbus Dispatch)
WASHINGTON -- After a national "listening tour" that included a Columbus stop, the health-insurance industry today unveiled a reform plan that it says can hold down costs and improve the quality of care.
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States' Big Health Plans Have Proved Costly (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Democrats in Washington have vowed to significantly expand government health care for the poor. But similar state efforts have proved far more costly than expected, or simply ineffective.
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