• Oscar-winning “Dallas Buyers Club” should please libertarians and FDA reformers [David Boaz/Cato, Jack Hunter/Rare, Kyle Smith/Forbes]
• Don’t assume patent trolls won’t threaten pharma/biotech [Nicholson Price, Bill of Health]
• “Why are patients shut out of the debate over prescription pain medicine?” [Maia Szalawitz]
• A retrospective on the Satanic abuse panic [Richard Noll, courtesy Maggie McNeill] And why you haven’t read it at Psychiatric Times [Gary Greenberg]
• High-profile medical and custody dispute in Massachusetts over teenager Justina Pelletier appears to pit hospital against hospital [Boston Globe (autoplays), CBS Boston, J.D. Tuccille/Reason]
• Actual fertility procedure under FDA consideration doesn’t live up to hype about supposed “three-parent babies” [Nita Farahany]
• Study points to benefits of easing licensing constraints on nurse practitioners [Jeffrey Miron, Cato]
• More: Florida Supreme Court, long elected with support from plaintiff’s bar, invalidates medical malpractice limits [Miami Herald, Alex Stein/Bill of Health]

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