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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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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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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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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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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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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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Writing a script to mimic openFDA's count query
I would check to make sure that you are processing all of the files. Start by printing out filename variable or len(DATA_FILES). It may be the case that you are missing some downloads.
Also, are you ...
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openFDA API - ingredient and product name queries give bad results - is it me?
I think you might be using the wrong query syntax for the openFDA API.
Try: https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?&search=generic_name:hydrocodone
Note the : instead of the = in the search value. ...
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Setting up a private instance
I suppose it depends on how much re-use you are looking to get. Drug event, run from scratch, takes roughly 24 hours to run and needs around 80GB of space. The initial drug label run can take a long ...
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Getting updated date for all the endpoints through an API
The endpoint for downloads is: https://api.fda.gov/download.json
I would log a bug on https://github.com/FDA/open.fda.gov letting them know that the above endpoint should be documented.
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OpenFDA API - how to query on drug name with more than one word
This query appears to work for a two-word query of "infants tylenol"
https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?search=brand_name:%22infants%20tylenol%22
%22 is for a double quote and %20 is a space
I ...
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openFDA - update notice:: further clarification
I'd recommend checking export_date attribute in this JSON instead. The XML will only show first 1000 of items in the S3 bucket and thus is not reliable.
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openFDA endpoints not updated in over 2 months. Has this project been abandoned?
The endpoints were updated on 08/12, and, no, the project is very much active.
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openFDA: Is There an Open Database of Which Drugs are Approved for the Treatment of Which Illnesses?
You can use Drugs@FDA database: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm.
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Python crashing when trying to read zipped json files
For those who might get to this question and look for an answer, here is the link to my other post with the answer.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40824807/reading-zipped-json-files
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How to download all the ophthalmic devices data from device classification end point in openFDA
Simply use limit and skip URL parameters described here.
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Determining if drug is generic or brand using NDC
The page that @Stanislav Kralin's comment links to contains a link to the Orange Book page, which provides downloads for ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Application, i.e. Generics) data and the Orange book ...
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openFDA co-occurring adverse events
Below is an example of a query against the openFDA drug event API that may be close to or approximate what you are looking to do. My query is offered just as an arbitrary example. You would have to ...
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Use Fuzzy Search with OpenFDA API
Sorry, openFDA doesn't currently support searches based on wildcard, fuzziness, regular expression or proximity.
To get matching results, there are no reasonable alternatives except to search by the ...
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API for searching Orphan Drug Designations and Approvals
chaohuang -- OpenFDA does not have an API for this dataset. And I can't find an API for it elsewhere either unfortunately. As a possible alternative approach, you may be able to implement a solution ...
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using openfda.brand_name.exact:"Tylenol" case sensitive
As you have observed, the brand_name.exact query term is case-sensitive.
You can search on brand_name instead of brand_name.exact to construct case-insensitive queries. For example, these queries are ...
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Drug label information does not include all approved drugs (kymriah and yescarta missing)
Cell therapy drugs aren't indexed by openFDA. Please see the relevant code here: https://github.com/FDA/openfda/blob/master/openfda/spl/pipeline.py#L90
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Drug label information does not include all approved drugs (kymriah and yescarta missing)
Please send your inquiry regarding this subject to [email protected]. Thank you.
openFDA team
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Basic Use of openFDA Animal & Veterinary API
I'm Jack with the openFDA Team. We've included extensive documentation on the website, but if you have specific questions (including example queries you've attempted just like @JanDoggen mentioned), I'...
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