App Enables Sharing Off-label Treatments for Infectious Diseases

A new app will allow health professionals to share how they ’ve used FDA-approved drugs for off-label indications with patients who have difficult-to-treat infectious diseases. The internet-based repository, called CURE ID, is a collaboration between the FDA and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, which is part of the National Institu tes of Health (NIH).
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research