openFDA: Is There an Open Database of Which Drugs are Approved for the Treatment of Which Illnesses?

Question

Is there an open database which lists FDA or EMA approvals of drugs for the treatment of specific illnesses?

Answer 1

Not sure exactly what the question is here.. Yes, openFDA is a database that is free to use, has it's source code on github, and can be queried to find drugs for specific treatments. Part of the api query has a field called "purpose" that should be what you are looking for.

(Github Profile) https://github.com/FDA/openfda (API guide) https://open.fda.gov/drug/label/

Answer 2

You can use Drugs@FDA database: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm.

Answer 3

I'm posting extremely late here, mainly because I have a follow-up question. You could potentially use the NIH RxNorm and related tools to help you link an FDA registered therapy with its purpose. For instance, ATC classification is a mechanism for classifying the therapeutic purpose of a medicine.

My follow-up question is whether any of the Drugs@FDA / OpenFDA datasets address products that were declined. My question relates to trying to find both approved and declined therapeutic products, and whether there is a way to do this without having to scrape press releases or committee documents etc., which would also probably not be very accurate.