The Associated Press, "$3.75B Fen-Phen Settlement Now Final, But Claims Can Still Be Made"

          A $3.75 billion settlement for thousands of people who took the recalled fen-phen diet drug combination is now final because no one challenged it by last week's deadline, drug maker American Home Products said.
          Until January 2, 2002, plaintiffs or their health insurers could have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the settlement, which currently includes about 295,000 people. No one did so.
          In May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit approved the settlement, which includes $1 billion for future medical checkups and $2.34 billion to settle individual suits over the company's fen-phen diet drug combination.