The government’s $45 billion plan to jump-start a national shift to electronic medical records has touched off a gold rush among scores of technology firms – even as many experts question whether the benefits of the products are being oversold. Read the full story here .

Hundreds of millions of dollars from the stimulus package intended to create green energy jobs in America are instead going to foreign companies, with few strings attached.

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The tide of bad loans and foreclosed properties just keeps rising at the nation's banks and credit unions, according to an analysis of the most recent federal banking records conducted by the Investigative  Reporting Workshop. Our search tool permits you to check the financial health of any bank in the nation.  You can search credit union reports , as well.  This project was done in cooperation with msnbc.com. See the full reports.

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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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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 .