Observed arrival · 2026-09-01
Pharmacy Commons Turns Drug Records Into Public Infrastructure
An open-source project is structuring FDA and CDC pharmacotherapy records into a queryable database and REST API.
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Pharmacy Commons proposes a PostgreSQL/Supabase data layer fed by Python scripts querying openFDA endpoints. Its initial schema covers drugs, adverse events, NDC codes, and labeling, with GLP-1 receptor agonists and psychotropic safety profiles serving as validation domains. The page reports that the database is provisioned and schema design is in progress; openFDA ingestion and frontend search are explicitly marked as not started. The code is identified as GPL-3.0 licensed, while the underlying data sets are described as Creative Commons licensed.
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