NewRx Radar

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Sources

Methodology

Rows are taken from two public APIs at build time and refreshed on a daily ISR cycle. A row is shown only when it matches the rules below. If a rule does not match, the row is left out. It is not replaced with a guess.

FDA

Source: openFDA Drugs@FDA, api.fda.gov/drug/drugsfda.json. License note: open.fda.gov/license. Field guide: Drugs@FDA API.

A row is included when one submission on the application is all of the following: submission type ORIG, submission status AP, and submission class code TYPE 1. If a class description is present, it must contain “New Molecular Entity”. The approval date is that submission’s status date. The window starts 2025-01-01. The link is the Drugs@FDA overview for that application number.

Drugs@FDA records in this pull do not include an indication. Those rows stay Unclassified. An Orphan submission property is shown as a source flag, not as a condition.

Health Canada

Source: Drug Product Database API, health-products.canada.ca/api/drug. Guide: DPD API documentation. Each row links to the DPD product page for its drug code.

Included rows are human products whose current status is Approved or Marketed. The date is the original market date when the status record has one, otherwise the status history date. The date must fall in the same window. The active ingredient must have no earlier human DPD date in the files pulled that day. A parenthetical salt name is folded onto the base name, so a new salt of an older ingredient is not listed as new. Products with no ingredient are left out. This is the first dated human record in that pull, not a claim of a world-first approval.

Condition

Health Canada therapeutic-class codes are mapped only for the ATC prefixes below. If a product has no code, a code outside the list, or codes that point at different labels, the condition is Unclassified.

openFDA asks users not to rely on the API for medical decisions and treats results as unvalidated. Health Canada’s status names are used as published: Approved means authorized and not marketed; Marketed means the product is being sold.