FDA drug labels
Boxed warning, indications, dosage and administration and contraindications from FDA prescription drug labels (DailyMed SPL), as cited text, updated daily.
| Source | FDA labeling via NLM (DailyMed), human prescription labels |
| Source id | nlm-dailymed |
| Release cadence | Daily (NLM's update files, Monday to Friday), rebuilt from the full release every 28 days |
| License | No license or fee; credit "Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine" (in meta.license_terms.attribution) |
| Endpoints | /v1/drugs/labels/{set_id}, /v1/drugs/labels?ndc=&rxcui=&q= |
Each record is the current version of one label (an SPL set id) with the products, package NDCs and RxNorm concepts it covers, and four sections quoted from the label:
| Key | Section | LOINC |
|---|---|---|
boxed_warning | Boxed warning | 34066-1 |
indications_and_usage | Indications and usage | 34067-9 |
dosage_and_administration | Dosage and administration | 34068-7 |
contraindications | Contraindications | 34070-3 |
Sections are plain text with the label's own wording: markup removed, paragraphs separated by blank
lines, list items one per line, table rows with cells separated by |, and subsection headings
(2.1 Recommended Dose) as their own paragraphs. Images are left out. A label without a section
(most have no boxed warning) simply doesn't list it. Every label carries url, its page on
DailyMed, to read the full label or cite it.
This is the FDA label text, not medical advice. Show it as the label's wording, with the label's
effective_date and the DailyMed link, rather than rephrasing it.
# Find the label for an NDC (any package of the product), then get its sections
curl "https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/drugs/labels?ndc=0003-0894-21" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
curl "https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/drugs/labels/e9481622-7cc6-418a-acb6-c5450daae9b0?sections=boxed_warning,contraindications" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"GET /v1/drugs/ndc/{ndc} links to the product's label as links.label when one lists it.
Coverage and limits
- Human prescription labels only (DailyMed's "Rx" release). OTC, homeopathic, animal and other labels are not loaded.
rxcuiscome from NLM's SPL-RxNorm mapping file, refreshed with every release.qsearches product names, labeler and title, not section text.- A label removed from DailyMed is removed here with the next daily update; its earlier states stay in the change feed and history.