"An investigation by KCRA in Sacramento revealed that Pacific Gas and Electric had surveyed homeowners’ gas meters over the last three years and marked thousands of leaks across Northern California." 

"However, a company whistleblower says PG&E never told homeowners and two years later many homes continue to leak. PG&E insists there is no danger because the leaks are small. In response, lawmakers and watchdog groups say the leaks should be fixed immediately."

"An investigation by KING 5 Seattle has found that federal food inspectors were ordered to ignore moldy applesauce that a Washington plant shipped to grocery stores across America."

"The investigation revealed that USDA knew for more than three years that their inspectors had grave concerns about the sale of moldy applesauce to the public, but the federal food agency didn’t put a stop to it."

"Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed.

Reports of the use of what are known as "airplane notes" comes after revelations last month that radiology residents around the country for years also have used what are known as "recalls" to prepare for the written exam, which is one step in becoming certified by the American Board of Radiology."

Lead paint was banned in the United States in the 1970s and leaded gasoline was slowly phased out over the next 20 years. However, a KUOW investigation has found across the nation, hundreds of thousands of engines still run on leaded gas. John Ryan, with KUOW, found that monitoring airborne lead in the Puget Sound region stopped completley back in 1999.

"A USA Today investigation reveals that seven decades after scientists came to the US during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

Several senior engineers cited design problems that could bring the treatment plant's operations to a halt before much of the waste is treated."

"A CNN investigation has found that for years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated on their test."

"Dozens of radiology residents interviewed by CNN said that they promised before taking the written test to memorize certain questions and write them down immediately after the test along with fellow residents so that the next round of test takers can memorize those questions."

"Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration convened a committee of medical experts to weigh new evidence concerning the potential dangers in popular birth control pills including Bayer AG’s Yaz and Yasmin. The committee concluded by a four-vote margin that the benefits of drugs with drospirenone, the synthetic hormone in question, outweigh the risks.

However, an investigation by the Washington Monthly and the British medical journal BMJ has found that at least four members of the committee have either done work for the drugs’ manufacturers or licensees or received research funding from them. The FDA made none ...

John Fauber of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that "drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal government, routinely is suppressed, harming patients and increasing health care costs, according to new data highlighting an ethical controversy that continues to plague the field of medicine."

"The current situation is a disservice to research participants, patients, health systems and the whole endeavor of clinical medicine," according to an editorial accompanying the data published in the British Medical Journal.

Accounting by the Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today shows that a University of Wisconsin-Madison chairman has received more than $25 million in royalties from Medtronic, a medical device firm, since 2003.

"Additionally, UW Hospital spent $27 million for Medtronic spinal products from 2004 to 2010, according to documents obtained through an open records request. And the chairman, Zdeblick, a renowned spinal surgeon, has co-authored several positive research papers about the company's spine products."

"Case files from Sacramento County Child Protective Services, recently obtained by The Sacramento Bee show how a two-year old girl died. However, the records do not explain how the agency made the decision to return the child to care that led to her death."

After countless reports of abuse and neglect, including 8 missed doctor's appointments for her heart defect and cleft palate, CPS put the child in foster care. However, just months later, she was returned to her parents, a move that requires CPS to convince a dependency court judge that the conditions that originally made the home ...