Adverse reaction data from MedEffect Canada

[andrewsu]

More info here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-database.html

zip file download here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/adverse-reaction-database/medeffect-canada-caveat-privacy-statement-interpretation-data-search-canada-vigilance-adverse-reaction-online-database.html

Archive:  extract_extrait.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
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 24844376  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/drug_product_ingredients.txt
  1351083  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/drug_products.txt
      121  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/gender_lx.txt
 11659057  2019-10-28 10:24   cvponline_extract_20190731/literature_reference.txt
      335  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/outcome_lx.txt
410800174  2019-10-28 10:22   cvponline_extract_20190731/reactions.txt
141913461  2019-10-28 10:24   cvponline_extract_20190731/report_drug_indication.txt
517677150  2019-10-28 10:23   cvponline_extract_20190731/report_drug.txt
 21433426  2019-10-28 10:22   cvponline_extract_20190731/report_links.txt
249463604  2019-10-28 10:21   cvponline_extract_20190731/reports.txt
      348  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/report_type_lx.txt
       47  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/seriousness_lx.txt
      176  2019-10-28 10:20   cvponline_extract_20190731/source_lx.txt
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1379143358                     13 files

Needs further evaluation on whether this would be useful/interesting to add (as an addition to the FAERS/AEOLUS data we already have).

[andrewsu]

prompted by this short twitter thread: https://twitter.com/BioBabblingHere/status/1191997351520436227

[yichuanma95]

Repo for the API here: https://github.com/yichuanma95/adverse_reaction.git

As of now, this only produces 1,000 documents because of memory limitations on my end.

[yichuanma95]

Mapping for the data can be found here: https://github.com/yichuanma95/adverse_reaction/blob/main/mapping.py