Off-label-use: pandoc as a network downloader

Lua helper script (pget.lua):

#!/usr/bin/env pandoc-lua
local mb = require 'pandoc.mediabag'
local path = require 'pandoc.path'
local uri = arg[1] or error"No URI given"
local out = arg[2] or path.filename(uri)
local mt, content = mb.fetch(uri)
mb.insert(out, mt, content)
mb.write('.')

Usage:

pandoc lua pget.lua URI [OUTFILE]

Example:

pandoc lua pget.lua https://pandoc.org/diagram.svgz diagram.svg

#pandoc #lua #offLabel

Biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.

«One of those presentations focused on off-label use of the vessels in patients’ torsos, which, according to data omitted from a prominent medical article on the product, were unsuccessful in four out of five procedures. In two of those cases, the patient died.»
#biotech #fda #OffLabel #ConflictOfInterest #BloodVessel
https://www.levernews.com/regulatory-ruptures-for-a-lab-grown-blood-vessel/

To anyone worried about prescribing or receiving vaccines "off-label", now that the FDA has limited its approval of #covid vaccines:

The use of tetanus vaccine in pregnancy to prevent tetanus for 1st 2 months of infant's life was recommended by the ACIP, CDC, and ACOG in 2012; but there was no vaccine FDA-approved for that purpose until 2022. That's 10 years of off-label use.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00749-6/abstract

#vaccine
#OffLabel