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Unified open medication index

Every publicly documented medication, in one place.

47,843 medication records joined from 14 open U.S. government datasets — approvals, therapeutic equivalence, patents and exclusivity, biologics, veterinary products, recalls, shortages and official prescribing information.

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47843
Medication entities
4,790 with full detail pages
7734
Active ingredients
29347
Regulatory applications
NDA · ANDA · BLA
392074
NDC packages
Every listed package
2243
Licensed biologics
351(a) and 351(k)
2436
Animal drugs
NADA · ANADA · CNADA
17975
Recall records
1601
Shortage records

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Monographs that gather every brand, strength, form and manufacturer of a single molecule.

Most reported to FAERS

openFDA FAERS

Total U.S. adverse event reports mentioning each drug, from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. A report count is a measure of exposure and reporting, not a measure of risk — see the methodology.

Recently approved

Drugs@FDA

All recent approvals

Common dosage forms

Tablet 720 TABLET, Film Coated 599 INJECTION, Solution 483 Capsule 323 Injection 294 Solution 269 Kit 182 TABLET, Extended Release 150 INJECTION, POWDER, LYOPHILIZED, For Solution 121 TABLET, Film COATED, Extended Release 98

Pharmacologic classes

Anti-Inflammatory Agents 251 Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors 251 Non-Steroidal 251 Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug 251 Corticosteroid Hormone Receptor Agonists 215 Corticosteroid 215 Histamine H1 Receptor Antagonists 136 Histamine-1 Receptor Antagonist 134 Cytochrome P450 3A4 Inhibitors 118 Decreased Central Nervous System Disorganized Electrical Activity 114

Built from 14 public datasets

Every source & its licence →
FDA Drugs@FDA — 12-table relational dump (tab-delimited) FDA FDA Orange Book — flat data files (tilde-delimited) FDA FDA Purple Book — Database of Licensed Biological Products FDA Drug Enforcement (Recalls) FDA Drug Shortages FDA Drugs@FDA FDA National Drug Code (NDC) Directory FDA Orange Book (JSON) FDA Drug Labeling (Structured Product Labeling) FDA / NLM FDA Animal Drugs @ FDA (Green Book / CVM) FDA CVM Animal & Veterinary Adverse Events (VeDDRA) FDA CVM Pharmacologic class mappings NLM RxNorm mappings NLM SPL release file metadata NLM Human Drug Adverse Events (FAERS)FDA

Every fact on every page carries a source marker. Nothing here is inferred, summarised or generated — the text of prescribing information is reproduced verbatim from the FDA's Structured Product Labeling submissions.