GEMS: Patients should call for ambulance, not take themselves to hospital (Greenwich Time)
Despite sweeping education initiatives, seniors suffering symptoms of a heart attack often drive themselves to the hospital instead of dialing 911 for an ambulance, risking serious injury and death, officials say.

Possible GM alliance makes union uneasy (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Back in 2001, a United Auto Workers effort to organize Nissan Motor Co. s North America flagship factory in Smyrna, Tenn., went down to crushing defeat. Nissan workers two-to-one vote against the UAW dashed its hopes of penetrating the flourishing foreign-owned auto manufacturing sector in the United States. And it came with Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn s distinctive signature.

Health care an ailing condition in the U.S. (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
With employers backing off from offering retiree health-care benefits and the Medicare system on the verge of collapse, retirees will have to shoulder more responsibility for their future health-care costs.