Medical and pharmaceutical roundup

Community college restructures staff to avoid ObamaCare employee mandate [Daniel Luzer, Washington Monthly] New pressure toward part-time employment is a big story [Coyote] But do regulations allow shift to part-time workers as a way of evading 50-employee rule, as seemingly contemplated in above post? [Gunn Chamberlain, P.A.] Why some workers might prefer being dropped from their employer’s health plan if higher pay results [Thom Lambert]
Eleventh Circuit: hospital can be sued for not providing sign-language interpreter for emergency department visitors [Disabilities Law/Bagenstos]
Proposition: “Off-label use can be, in many circumstances, the standard of care.” [Drug and Device Law] On Ben Goldacre’s new book “Bad Pharma” [Tyler Cowen]
Overnight solution to med-mal crisis? Perhaps standard for lawyers’ malpractice should automatically fluctuate to reflect that for doctors [Ted Frank, Point of Law]
Criminalizing the professions [White Coat]
Drug shortages persist [ACSH, earlier here, here, etc.] What the FDA could do to speed antibiotic approval [Yevgeniy Feyman, Medical Progress Today, earlier]
Clearer line-drawing between pharmacy and mass drug-compounding needed after tainted-steroid debacle [Scott Gottlieb/Sheldon Bradshaw, WSJ, earlier] With compounding pharmacy doubtfully able to pay claims, “You’re going to get people suing everyone.” [Boston Globe, David Oliver]