Over the past few years, medical device and drug startups have privately and not so privately painted the Food and Drug Administration as a graveyard for innovation. The agency, critics say, makes it ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched openFDA, a database designed to make all of the department’s publicly available data easily accessible to app developers, researchers and others.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made reports and datasets publicly available, the agency also shared its hope that developers will use that information to create new apps. The OpenFDA ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced a new challenge meant to encourage developers to take advantage of openFDA, a public data project the agency unveiled nearly a year ago. It’s the agency’s ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced it has made more data sets accessible through its openFDA program. Researchers now can use openFDA APIs, short for application programming interfaces, to ...

The FDA has challenged developers to create algorithms that identify spikes in adverse event data automatically. The challenge is one of several posted by the regulator to encourage developers to use ...

Even skeptics about the responsiveness of an organization as large as the FDA have had to admit that the agency’s first chief health informatics officer, Taha Kass-Hout, has shaken things up with the ...

The FDA has acted on requests from users to allow data it makes available through openFDA to be downloaded. The U.S. regulator revised the system late last year to enable users to download the data ...

The FDA has launched openFDA, a new program that makes it easier for members of the public—including researchers and web developers—to access large, public health datasets collected by the FDA, the ...

Through its OpenFDA program, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now offers an Application Programming Interface to give developers and researchers access to data about recalls, according to a blog ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a division for health IT entrepreneurs, researchers and interested members of the public to access data on medication errors and drug adverse events ...