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
Off-label-use of pandoc: convert numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals.
echo 'MMXXVI.' | pandoc -t commonmark
⇒ 2026.
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
"Hausärzte dringen auf kostenfreie Medikamente für Long-COVID-Betroffene
Berlin – Der Hausärztinnen- und Hausärzteverband dringt darauf, dass Long-COVID-Patienten einen kostenfreien Zugang zu Medikamenten erhalten." - Deutsches Ärzteblatt am 2. Juni 2025.
Der Verbandsvorsitzende Markus Beier kritisierte, dass beim sog. Off-Label-Use Patientinnen und Patienten die Kosten aktuell meist selbst übernehmen müssten:
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