Clinical Trials + FDA Drugs & Recalls

One Actor for the three U.S. health datasets people ask for most, as clean JSON:

1. Clinical trials from ClinicalTrials.gov: search by condition, drug, sponsor, phase, status and site location.
2. FDA drug profiles from openFDA: label highlights, boxed warning, adverse event report counts, the most reported reactions and recall history, for any brand or generic name.
3. FDA recalls for drugs, medical devices and food: search by product, company or reason (listeria, peanut, insulin pump...), filter by class and date.

Data comes straight from the official U.S. government APIs (National Library of Medicine and FDA). No API key, no login.

What you get

Trial (one row per study): NCT ID, title, status, phases, study type, conditions, interventions, lead sponsor and collaborators, enrollment, start and completion dates, last update, eligibility (sex, age range, healthy volunteers), primary outcomes, summary, countries, number of sites, up to 50 site locations, central recruitment contacts and the study link.

Drug profile (one row per drug): brand and generic names, active substances, manufacturer, routes, application numbers, pharmacologic class, boxed warning, indications, dosage, contraindications, warnings, total and serious adverse event reports, top 15 reported reactions, recall count and the 5 latest recalls, plus the DailyMed label link.

Recall (one row per recall): category, recall number, class, status, firm, product, reason, quantity, distribution, dates, location and brand or generic names.

Use cases

• Pharma and biotech competitive intelligence: every recruiting Phase 3 trial for a condition, who sponsors it and where.
• Patient recruitment and CROs: recruiting trials by condition and country with site lists and contacts.
• Investors: pipeline activity of a sponsor, completion dates to watch.
• Food safety, retail and compliance teams: daily Class I recall monitoring for your products or suppliers.
• Healthcare content and AI agents: grounded drug facts with warnings and adverse event signals.

Input

Field	What it does
trialConditions	Conditions, e.g. obesity, breast cancer.
trialSearchTerms	Free text, e.g. a drug name or NCT number.
trialStatus, trialPhases	Filters, e.g. Recruiting, Phase 3.
trialSponsor, trialLocation	e.g. Pfizer, Brazil.
trialSort	Last updated (default) or relevance.
drugNames	Brand or generic names, e.g. Ozempic, atorvastatin.
recallQueries	Product, firm or reason, e.g. listeria.
recallCategories, recallClassification, recallDateFrom	Narrow recalls by type, class and date.
maxResultsPerQuery	Default 25, up to 1,000.
openFdaApiKey	Optional free key for very large FDA runs.

Output example (drug profile)

{
  "recordType": "drug",
  "input": "atorvastatin",
  "genericNames": ["ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM"],
  "adverseEventReports": 70184,
  "seriousAdverseEventReports": 43893,
  "topReportedReactions": [{ "reaction": "FATIGUE", "reports": 4684 }, { "reaction": "DRUG INEFFECTIVE", "reports": 4390 }],
  "recallCount": 45,
  "recentRecalls": [{ "recallNumber": "D-...", "classification": "Class II", "reason": "...", "date": "2026-..." }]
}

Inputs that return nothing come back as recordType: "error" rows with a hint, and they are free.

Pricing

Pay per result: one charge per trial, per recall and per drug profile (a drug profile combines several FDA queries, so it costs a bit more). Errors are free.

Data sources and notes

• ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Records are reformatted (fields renamed and flattened, long text shortened); every row has retrievedAt with the processing date and a link to the original record.
• openFDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (CC0). Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, open.fda.gov.
• Adverse event reports (FAERS) are unverified and do not prove that a drug caused a reaction. Do not use this data to make medical decisions.
• This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NLM, NIH or FDA.

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