fda — FDA: what it approved, and who registered a device facility — openbash

Breakthrough-therapy and novel drug approvals, each with what it was approved to treat; and device establishment registrations, months before a product ships.

fda

fda is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.

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fda: the FDA's approvals and device registrations, as JSON.

RETURNS
  One JSON object on stdout.

PRE-SHIPMENT, WHICH IS THE POINT
  A company must register a facility and list what it makes there before it can
  sell a device in the United States. The registration comes months before the
  product, which is a better moment to reach them than the week it launches.

WHAT THE LISTING TELLS YOU
  The device, its product code, and the establishment's role — manufacturer,
  contract sterilizer, repackager. That last one is how you tell a company that
  MAKES something from one that relabels it.

WHAT IT IS NOT
  An empty answer means no device establishment on record. It says nothing
  about a drug, a supplement or a diagnostic service; those are different
  registers entirely.

WHAT THE FDA APPROVED
  `fda breakthrough` is every approval of a breakthrough-therapy designated
  drug since 2013, and `fda approvals` a year's novel drug approvals: each row
  the drug, what it was approved to treat, the date, and the FDA document it is
  read from, which is the citation. They are the agency's own lists, read
  through `browser`; each source says how many rows were read beside the total
  the document states.

Studies:
  search       <company>
      device establishment registrations — who registered a facility, and what is listed in it
  breakthrough <query>
      approvals of breakthrough-therapy designated drugs since 2013, newest first — each drug, what it was approved to treat, and when
  approvals    <query>
      a year's novel drug approvals, newest first — each new drug, what it was approved to treat, and when

JSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `> /tmp/…` to keep it.
Run a study with no arguments — `fda search` — to see what it takes.

What it answers

fda search — device establishment registrations — who registered a facility, and what is listed in it
fda breakthrough — approvals of breakthrough-therapy designated drugs since 2013, newest first — each drug, what it was approved to treat, and when
fda approvals — a year's novel drug approvals, newest first — each new drug, what it was approved to treat, and when