FDA asks coders to create an app that matches opioid overdose victims with lifesaving rescue drug

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 18:31 in Health & Medicine

In a bid to stanch the death toll of the nation’s epidemic of opioid drug use, the Food and Drug Administration is calling for the development of a cellphone app that could quickly bring lifesaving medication to the rescue of a person in the throes of a potentially deadly overdose. The FDA on Monday...

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