• Alarming: “2,500 Georgia Doctors Lack Malpractice Insurance: Report” [Insurance Journal]
• Improper FDA contact with trial lawyers behind closed doors? [DDLaw, Ed Silverman, WSJ CorpInt]
• AFGE fights efforts to refer patients at troubled VA hospitals to civilian specialists [Betsy McCaughey, Investors] Civil service rules entrench bad VA managers [Rep. Jeff Miller, Time mag]
• Improved understanding of brain damage in newborns could have litigation implications [New York Times “Well”]
• Budget measure widens Medicaid program rights to recoup medical outlays by grabbing part of plaintiff tort recoveries [King & Spalding]
• “Ronald Reagan and AIDS: Correcting the Record” [Carl Cannon]
• Rating the FDA’s various drug review divisions [Manhattan Institute, The Hill, more]

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