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Briefs: Dental, law offices damaged by fire (Pittsburgh Live)
A Hampton building housing dental and law practices was damaged Monday morning when a fire broke out in the basement.

$155M to shorten medical waiting lists (CBC Manitoba)
The NDP government has unveiled a five-point plan to shorten waiting lists for surgery, treatment and diagnostic testing in the province. Health Minister Tim Sale says the $155 million plan will target cancer, cardiac, diagnostic imaging, joint replacement, and cataract surgery.

Salary bumps are only part of story (St. Cloud Times)
Elected St. Cloud officials will get a pay increase next year, but the benefits they receive are already impressive, if less well known. All are eligible for medical and dental insurance, a pension plan and reimbursements for official travel.

Company news (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Patients to lose NHS dental care (The Vale Advertiser)
THOUSANDS more patients are to lose their NHS places as the county's dental crisis deepens. This week, dentists from the Connah's Quay Dental Surgery announced the practice will go private in February.

Minneapolis Community and Technical College and Delta Dental Form Program Partnership (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota, the largest provider of dental benefits in the Upper Midwest, and Minneapolis Community

No Happy Halloween for Transit Commuters (RedNova)
By Dan Geringer, Philadelphia Daily News Oct. 31--Philadelphians scrambled this morning to find other means of transportation as a Halloween transit strike raised the specter of a paralyzed city.

New dental surgery plan delights townsfolk (Powys Country Times)
A PLANNING application for a new dental surgery in Machynlleth has been submitted, to the delight of local health officials. The application for the surgery, before the Montgomeryshire planning committee, is to convert a Welsh Development Agency (WDA) factory into a dental practice.

Hospital's second tower remains in the works (The Kentucky Kernel)
The plan for the growth of the UK Chandler Medical Center keeps growing. A second bed tower is currently included in the plans of the University HealthCare expansion, but no final decision will be made until 2008, said Dr. Michael Karpf, executive vice president of health affairs.

A little 'All Kids' Q and A (Southern Illinoisan)
SPRINGFIELD - Lawmakers have approved Gov. Rod Blagojevich's "All Kids" plan, which is meant to guarantee every child in Illinois receives health care.


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