Clinical Trials & Drug Approvals (ClinicalTrials.gov + FDA)

What you get

• S — Trials snapshot: 635,666 registered trials with sponsors, phases, conditions
• M — Pharma-intelligence pack: 1,058,262 rows linking trials to FDA approval data
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Data dictionary summary

Key fields — the full data dictionary ships with every purchase.

Coverage statistics

Records

1,058,262

Trials

635,666

Countries

248

Fields

134

Time coverage

1900-01-01 – 2099-01-01

Largest package

436.4 MB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from the 2026-08 full run: 635k trials across 3 registries + 188k US drug records with Orange Book patents/exclusivity (see pipelines/clinicaltrials).

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: ClinicalTrials.gov terms (free reuse) + FDA public data) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: ClinicalTrials.gov terms (free reuse) + FDA public data · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from ClinicalTrials.gov and FDA public data

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 3 packages, 1.5 GB total , 1,693,928 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/clinical-trials-drug-approvals-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir clinical-trials-drug-approvals-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/clinical-trials-drug-approvals-dataset archive/clinicaltrials-tier1-M-2026-08-02.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Sources: ClinicalTrials.gov and official FDA datasets.
• Subscriptions deliver refreshed packages monthly.
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (row counts, bytes, sha256).

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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