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Center for Justice & Democracy: A new white paper details “the slow demise of class actions in America.”

FairWarning.org: Advocates for outdoor advertisers counter by pointing to a study that remains unpublished because reviewers found its findings not believable.

The California Department of Public Health handed out the penalties for errors that “caused, or [were] likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.” Two Bay Area patients died as a result of errors.

The Atlantic: A Johns Hopkins University study found failure to diagnose such conditions as heart attack and stroke in intensive care patients could result in more than 40,000 deaths annually.

FairWarning.org: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and consumer advocates are calling for making dressers, storage cabinets and televisions more stable to reduce the accidents that have caused hundreds of deaths over the past decade.

American Medical News (American Medical Association): A study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General found hospitals reported only 8% of the adverse events they were required to report to their state agencies.

CNN: A report by two researchers says Susan G. Komen for the Cure overstated the benefits of mammograms while ignoring the risks during a breast cancer awareness month campaign.