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Easily find, filter, and track drugs by ingredient, brand names, routes, and more.

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Instantly search 15,000+ drugs and 500,000+ medications

With autocomplete and fuzzy search enabled you can quickly and easily find the exact level of detail you need for any drug or medication.

Search by ingredient, prescribable, brand, or generic name.

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Medication Name Search

This included feature is one of our most powerful search functions and allows you to:

  • Search name, route, dosage, and other product parameters.
  • Access a unique identifier for each result so you can record drug lists at a specific level of detail.
  • Filter NDC codes to quickly find an exact drug product.
Product concept search
API Query
GET https://api.drugbank.com/v1/us/product_concepts/DBPC0009720/strengths
[
  {
    "name": "Metformin 500 mg /5.0mL Oral",
    "display_name": null,
    "drugbank_pcid": "DBPC0232440",
    "brand": null,
    "level": 3,
    "route": "Oral",
    "form": null,
    "strengths": "500 mg /5.0mL",
    "standing": "active",
    "standing_updated_at": "2018-09-12",
    "standing_active_since": "2004-01-04",
    "regions": {
      "us": true,
      "canada": false,
      "eu": false
    },
    "rxnorm_concepts": [],
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "Metformin",
        "drug": {
          "name": "Metformin",
          "drugbank_id": "DB00331"
        },
        "strength": {
          "amount": "500.0",
          "per": "5.0",
          "units": "mg/mL"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Metformin 500 mg Oral",
    "display_name": null,
    "drugbank_pcid": "DBPC0009722",
    "brand": null,
    "level": 3,
    "route": "Oral",
    "form": null,
    "strengths": "500 mg",
    "standing": "active",
    "standing_updated_at": "2018-09-12",
    "standing_active_since": "1993-12-31",
    "regions": {
      "us": true,
      "canada": true,
      "eu": false
    },
    "rxnorm_concepts": [],
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "Metformin",
        "drug": {
          "name": "Metformin",
          "drugbank_id": "DB00331"
        },
        "strength": {
          "amount": "500.0",
          "per": "1.0",
          "units": "mg"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Metformin 750 mg Oral",
    "display_name": null,
    "drugbank_pcid": "DBPC0009754",
    "brand": null,
    "level": 3,
    "route": "Oral",
    "form": null,
    "strengths": "750 mg",
    "standing": "active",
    "standing_updated_at": "2018-09-12",
    "standing_active_since": "2005-04-01",
    "regions": {
      "us": true,
      "canada": false,
      "eu": false
    },
    "rxnorm_concepts": [],
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "Metformin",
        "drug": {
          "name": "Metformin",
          "drugbank_id": "DB00331"
        },
        "strength": {
          "amount": "750.0",
          "per": "1.0",
          "units": "mg"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Metformin 850 mg Oral",
    "display_name": null,
    "drugbank_pcid": "DBPC0017628",
    "brand": null,
    "level": 3,
    "route": "Oral",
    "form": null,
    "strengths": "850 mg",
    "standing": "active",
    "standing_updated_at": "2018-09-12",
    "standing_active_since": "1995-12-31",
    "regions": {
      "us": true,
      "canada": true,
      "eu": false
    },
    "rxnorm_concepts": [],
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "Metformin",
        "drug": {
          "name": "Metformin",
          "drugbank_id": "DB00331"
        },
        "strength": {
          "amount": "850.0",
          "per": "1.0",
          "units": "mg"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Metformin 1000 mg Oral",
    "display_name": null,
    "drugbank_pcid": "DBPC0017612",
    "brand": null,
    "level": 3,
    "route": "Oral",
    "form": null,
    "strengths": "1000 mg",
    "standing": "active",
    "standing_updated_at": "2018-09-12",
    "standing_active_since": "2002-01-25",
    "regions": {
      "us": true,
      "canada": true,
      "eu": false
    },
    "rxnorm_concepts": [],
    "ingredients": [
      {
        "name": "Metformin",
        "drug": {
          "name": "Metformin",
          "drugbank_id": "DB00331"
        },
        "strength": {
          "amount": "1000.0",
          "per": "1.0",
          "units": "mg"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]
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