Healthcare
Medication interaction check
Lists the medicines someone takes and quotes what the official FDA labels say about taking them together, with a link to each label.
01 Problem
Interaction information exists in FDA labels but is buried in long documents, and brand names hide the active ingredients.
02 Approach
- Names are resolved to active ingredients with RxNorm, and each ingredient's newest label is read from openFDA.
- Both labels in every pair are searched for the other drug by name and by its official drug class, and matching sentences are quoted.
- Duplicate ingredients across products, such as acetaminophen in two medicines, are flagged separately.
03 Evidence
- Unit and component tests
- Browser tests on recorded real API responses
- Content Security Policy limited to the two data sources
The repository README explains how to run each test suite, and its continuous integration history is public.