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List of United States cities

The US Census Bureau also has a national gazeteer file with state and city info, including incorporation information. For metadata/excel file column please have a look at HERE.
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Searching by disease through openFDA API

I'm Jack Finch with the openFDA team. Looking at what you're trying to do, I'll suggest a couple queries that should satisfy your needs and link you to the appropriate sections of documentation which ...
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List of United States cities

I have a CSV file you can download that lists all US cities by state. The data was compiled from the US Census 2013 Gazetteer. http://www.opengeocode.org/download.php#statecity In case you must ...
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List of United States cities

You might try using data from the Geonames.org database. You can download gazateer data by country from this list. Another potential source is the the MaxMind GeoLite2 dataset.
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Comparing FDA drug data with other countries

This is perhaps a bit late, but I'm interested in this as well and have made some progress. With respect to drugs, the WHO has a lookup service for ATC codes: http://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/ ...
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OpenFDA report_date for Food/Enforcement doesn't seem to work after 9/23/2015

Thanks for catching this one. It is true for all of the enforcement endpoints (food, drug and device). The link on the FDA that we are crawling is dead (it hangs). There is a bug in pipeline code ...
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I get 'certificate verify failed' URLError when trying to download data from openFDA

I'm not sure what underlying HTTP packages pandas uses, but I found that the default settings of the requests package in python does not work with SSL and this site: import requests url = 'https://...
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Synchronize with the openFDA S3 bucket

It took quite a while to figure this out myself, so I thought I'd share! The openFDA bucket is Requestor Pays, so you have to enable yourself -- in your amazon account -- to pay for requests to that ...
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API for getting data from a disease name?

Have you tried a Wolfram Alpha search. There is a lot of information there. Wolfram|Alpha: lung adenocarcinoma You can get this information in Mathematica as well for analysis by using the ...
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Can someone explain "openfda data is not for clinical use"?

Basically, the data can't be considered "complete" and thus trustworthy. Most of the information contained there comes from sources that need to handle their data really carefully. Consider drug ...
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Can someone explain "openfda data is not for clinical use"?

openFDA is not for clinical use since it is a research project still in beta. Additional details can be found on the about page: https://open.fda.gov/about/ If you need labeling information for ...
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Disease and Symptoms Hierarchy

Check Bioportal for an ontology suiting your needs. There are various disease, anatomy and symptom related ontologies out there, which might help you there. Use the European Bioinformatics Institute ...
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Disease and Symptoms Hierarchy

Have a look at the supplementary material of Learning disease relationships from clinical drug trials. disease_mappings10.txt file in the supplementary contains the info you need. For instance, if ...
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Adverse Events Reported Term + MEDDRA coding dataset

I'm one the many folks working on Open FDA. We've searched across FDA data sets open to the public and, unfortunately, did not identify one that would meet your requirement at this time.
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Endpoint not returning expected data based on NDC package code

openFDA has only the NDC codes that are in the National Drug Code Directory. This particular one -- "10135-150-01" -- isn't there, which is why you are getting no results back.
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Open FDA - Medical device search -> summary pdf

Most 510K records have the value "Summary" stored in the Summary field. There is no such thing as the "Summary" field. A statement or summary can be provided per 21 CFR 807.3(n) and (o). A 510(k)...
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why doesn't FDA drug list include all meds?

The FDA CDER database, which you linked to, covers small molecule drugs. Monovisc is a medical device, so you'll need to search the medical device database: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/...
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OpenFDA API Suspension effective 12/20/2019?

I'm Jack with the openFDA Team. The temporary suspension of updates to the openFDA datasets has ended. We're in the process of updating all datasets. Please stay tuned in to the API Status page for ...
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Unzipping the openfda data in R

Just use for: # unzipping the files temp<-tempfile() for (f in files) { download.file(f,temp) unzip(temp) }
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New Indications via OpenFDA API

openFDA builds its Drugs@FDA dataset from the downloadable data files at the FDA. Unfortunately, the information you are looking for is currently absent from these files: if you scroll down to the ER ...
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Ability to link API report back to site

I'm Violet Wren with the openFDA team. The FDA dataset you linked to does not appear to store recall numbers. As such, searching with them will unfortunately yield no results. Your best bet for cross-...
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How can I access FDA drug and medical device recall data from 1970 to 2014?

The process isn't as nice as the API at openFDA, but you can always file a Freedom of Information Act request: http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/FOI/HowtoMakeaFOIARequest/
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list of approved active ingredients

It seems like your idea is possible using openFDA (or dailymed data which is where openFDA gets their SPL, Structured Product Label, data, I think), but it's not going to be necessarily easy. You ...
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How quickly after FDA approval will adverse events be listed on openFDA?

In the past, the public data, which is the basis of the openFDA API, lagged about a year behind. Great improvements have been made this last year and we are starting to see that data within 3 months. ...
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openFDA Device Adverse Events Data out of date

My apologies, I posted a response earlier that was speaking about the status of the /drug/event.json API when your question is about the /device/event.json The /device/event.json API is currently out ...
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Is there a openFDA Data Pipeline version supported for Windows?

We have not heard of anyone running the openFDA data pipeline on Windows. That being said, it should in theory be possible since we are using open source tools that work across platforms. If you ...
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openFDA Device Adverse Events missing for Dec, 2015 (as of 19-Jan-2016)

The data that powers that particular API is only available on a quarterly basis and is currently only available through Q3 of 2015. http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/...
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Get results for partial drug name searches

Unfortunately, we do not support partial or ngram search. The search tool that we use forces us to decide between different tokenization approaches (whitespace, word, ngram, et al.). We decided ...
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Download all drug adverse events

There is limited demographic data in the adverse event records, but the ones that you asked for are on the patient record: patient: { "patientonsetage": "59", "patientonsetageunit": "801", "...
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Duplicates in device recall data?

If you click on "Recall Event ID" link for Z-3261-2011 recall record, you see two instances on the online database. I have not tried the OpenFDA yet, but our previous analysis of medical device ...
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