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University of Phoenix will pay $78.5 million to settle a lawsuit by whistle blowers Mary Hendow and Julie Albertson, who helped expose that the nation’s largest for-profit school had violated federal law.

A national study shows that insurance companies–not individuals and not physicians–benefit from restrictions on damages that victims of medical negligence receive.

Bayer’s big selling birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, may carry more risk but are no more effective than traditional birth control pills. The products are the focus of major litigation.

Pregnant African-American women who live near freeways are far more likely to have miscarriages than women who don’t regularly breathe exhaust fumes. So do nonsmokers.

It was ten years ago this month that the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies issued its landmark report, “To Err Is Human.” That report recommended a “four-tiered approach” for better hospital safety. Ten years later, experts say hospitals could be doing a lot better job of improving patient safety.

In January 2007, a New Century executive told California lawmakers everything was fine–and then the situation turned ugly. The SEC charged three New Century execs with fraud today.

AIG execs threaten to quit over base salaries of $500,000. Readers suggest that the execs not let the door hit them on their way out.