Medicinal drugs can be beneficial, even lifesaving — but not, always, in combination with each other. Putting two and two together in the human body can cause a million different unexpected, unintended, downright harmful side effects. Until now, those “adverse interactions” have been difficult to research, sort through, and track. But today, the FDA is launching a new initiative designed to let members of the public have access to, and make sense of, all the data.
The OpenFDA project is starting with nearly a decade’s worth of information, covering reported drug interactions and errors from 2004 through 2013. It’s no small amount of data; there are about 3.6 million adverse interaction reports in there from those nine years.
FDA Launches New Public Database Tracking Which Drugs Do Not Play Nicely With Other Drugs – Consumerist
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