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Nancy Ann DeParle, who heads the White House Office on Health Reform, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

DeParle, who ran the Medicare program in the last years of the Clinton administration made more than $6.6 million in directors' fees and stock transactions between 2001 and March of this year, Securities and Exchange Commission filings revealed.

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The continuing recession and weak housing markets made for another difficult quarter for the nation's banks, according to a new analysis of bank financial statements by the Investigative Reporting Workshop. We also created a search tool that permits you to check the financial health of any bank in the nation. And we have provided detailed information about the banks that have received bailout money from the federal government. For the first time by any news organization, the Workshop is providing access to finanical reports filed by the nation's credit unions, which also are seeing problems with their loan portfolios increasing. You can search credit union reports , as well. We also have made it possible to print the detailed reports. This project was done in cooperation with msnbc.com. See the full reports.

Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing type of cancer in the nation, and medical researchers don't know why. The increase comes as the rates for most cancers have been declining. Caroline Stetler, an American University journalism graduate student, reports on this mystery .