Open Data Library
The medical and pharma databases I actually use and trust — every one of them free, every one of them downloadable, every one linked straight to its official source. No mirrors, no paywalls, no "sign up to see pricing." Where a source needs a free account or credentialing, the card says so plainly.
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U.S. Food & Drug Administration Direct download
FDA public data as JSON APIs and bulk downloads: drug adverse-event reports (FAERS), drug labels, recalls and enforcement actions, device adverse events, and NDC product listings.
Humanity’s most complete public ledger of what happened after we swallowed, injected, or implanted something.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Direct download
The current FDA label (Structured Product Labeling) for essentially every marketed drug in the U.S. — full prescribing information as structured XML, downloadable in bulk.
The fine print of every pill bottle in the country, machine-readable.
U.S. Food & Drug Administration Direct download
Approved drug products with therapeutic-equivalence evaluations — the authoritative list behind generic substitution, plus patent and exclusivity data, as plain downloadable data files.
The book pharmacists argue with. Now a ZIP file.
DrugBank (University of Alberta / OMx) Free registration required
The freely licensed subset of DrugBank: the open drug & drug-target vocabulary (identifiers, names, CAS/UNII mappings) released under CC0. The full database requires a license — this subset does not.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Free registration required
The normalized naming system that lets U.S. drug databases talk to each other — every clinical drug, dose form, and brand mapped to stable identifiers. Full monthly releases downloadable with a free UMLS account.
The Rosetta Stone for why your pharmacy’s computer and your hospital’s computer disagree.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Direct download
The registry and results database of clinical studies conducted around the world — protocols, arms, outcomes, and posted results. Full API (v2) plus complete bulk download of every study record.
Every registered trial since 2000 — including the ones that quietly never enrolled anyone.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Direct download
Query-and-export access to CDC’s epidemiologic datasets: underlying-cause-of-death mortality, natality, cancer statistics, vaccinations, and more, exportable as delimited text.
CDC / National Center for Health Statistics Direct download
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey — interviews, physical exams, and lab measurements on a representative sample of the U.S. population, in continuous cycles since 1999.
The reason we know what the average American’s cholesterol actually is.
World Health Organization Direct download
WHO’s repository of health indicators for its member states — life expectancy, disease burden, immunization coverage, health-system metrics — via an open OData API and CSV export.
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Direct download
Every payment and transfer of value from drug and device companies to U.S. physicians and teaching hospitals, reported under the Sunshine Act — searchable and downloadable in full.
Transparency as a CSV: you can look up any U.S. physician. Yes, including me.
U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Direct download
CMS program data: Medicare utilization and payment by provider and service, hospital cost reports, provider enrollment, and more — the raw material of U.S. health-policy analysis.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Direct download
The complete PubMed citation database — 38M+ biomedical citations and abstracts with MeSH indexing — released annually as bulk XML, with daily update files.
All of biomedicine’s abstracts in one download. Bring a real disk.
MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology Free, but credentialed (training + data-use agreement)
De-identified electronic health records from real ICU and ED admissions at Beth Israel Deaconess — labs, vitals, medications, notes. The workhorse dataset of clinical machine-learning research.
Free, but you must pass a human-subjects course first. The data is worth the homework.
EMBL — European Bioinformatics Institute Direct download
A manually curated database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties: 2.4M+ compounds, 20M+ activity measurements against biological targets, downloadable as a complete database.
An entire medicinal-chemistry department’s memory, as a single SQLite file.
This library is a personal, hand-maintained list of public resources. Each dataset belongs to and is licensed by its maintainer — check the license before you build on one. Listing here is not an endorsement by any of these organizations, and nothing on this page is medical advice.