Drug
Reading FAERS Side-Effect Reports with drug/event.json
Millions of adverse event filings live in FAERS. Here is how to pull them through openFDA without drowning in nested JSON.
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26 walkthroughs — one for each openFDA endpoint, written for humans
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Querying Product Labeling (drug/label.json)
Structured prescribing information for approved drug products. This guide shows how to filter that dataset through openFDA.
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Drug
A quick guide to the NDC Directory API
If you have never hit drug/ndc.json before, start here — we explain what comes back and how to write a basic search.
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Recall Enforcement: searching FDA drug data
The drug/enforcement.json endpoint holds drug product recall enforcement reports. We break down one working example and point out the parameters that matter.
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Drugs@FDA on openFDA — what the drug/drugsfda.json endpoint returns
A straight walkthrough of drugs@fda records at drug/drugsfda.json, with a sample query you can paste into our Explorer.
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Querying Drug Shortages (drug/shortages.json)
Current and resolved drug shortage reports. This guide shows how to filter that dataset through openFDA.
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Device
A quick guide to the 510(k) Clearances API
If you have never hit device/510k.json before, start here — we explain what comes back and how to write a basic search.
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Device
Classification: searching FDA device data
The device/classification.json endpoint holds device names, product codes, panels, and classifications. We break down one working example and point out the parameters that matter.
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Device
Recall Enforcement on openFDA — what the device/enforcement.json endpoint returns
A straight walkthrough of recall enforcement records at device/enforcement.json, with a sample query you can paste into our Explorer.
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