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medication-information-research

Retrieve source-attributed GoodRx medication, condition, and health information with author and review dates, and cross-check safety-critical claims against official FDA or NIH sources. Use for general information, not personalized diagnosis, dosing, or treatment decisions.
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Medication information research

Build a concise, source-linked explanation from public GoodRx medication and health pages. This workflow retrieves information; it does not diagnose, select a medicine, recommend a dose, or decide whether a treatment is suitable for a person or animal.

Access and source limits

Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY and use the bundled scripts/crawlora.sh. It sends the key to Crawlora over HTTPS, not to GoodRx or FDA. Check HTTP status and the application code; stop on authentication errors, back off on 429, and retry a transient upstream failure once. Bound page requests to the user's question. The selected routes are read-only. Do not submit medical or prescription data.

GoodRx is an editorial secondary source. Preserve its article URL, authors, medical reviewers, and published/modified/reviewed dates where returned. GoodRx states that clinically focused content is medically reviewed and that its site is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Its editorial review does not make a page an FDA-approved label. The REST helper returns JSON without HTTP response headers, so it may not expose GoodRx's retained-response status. Keep retrieval time separate from source review dates and do not claim that a fetch was live. If current freshness is material, verify against the original page and report any uncertainty.

Find the right GoodRx material

  1. Resolve the user-named medication or condition from the directory routes. Use /goodrx/drugs or /goodrx/brands for drug identity; /goodrx/classes and /goodrx/class for GoodRx's class directory; and /goodrx/conditions and /goodrx/condition for condition pages. A directory association is not a clinical recommendation.
  2. For a drug guide, list /goodrx/drug-guides and use only a returned slug/topic pair with /goodrx/drug-guide. The supported topics are side-effects, dosage, and interactions; a missing guide is not a negative finding. Preserve the guide's reviewer, last-reviewed date, and source URL when present.
  3. Use /goodrx/drug-info for the general medication page and its FAQs, warnings, contraindications, references, and comparison links. For pets, resolve the slug from /goodrx/pet-medications and set audience=pets; label veterinary content separately and do not transfer it to humans.
  4. Use /goodrx/health-topics to discover a section/topic pair, then /goodrx/health-articles and /goodrx/health-article for a bounded article sample. Preserve author, medical reviewer, publication/modification dates, references, and article path. /goodrx/answers and /goodrx/answer provide GoodRx's short question-and-answer content; keep the question and linked article together.
  5. Use /goodrx/comparisons and /goodrx/comparison only when the user asks how two named medicines are described. Preserve GoodRx's stated takeaways; do not turn a comparison into a treatment ranking or substitute choice.

Verify claims and write the brief

  • For dosage, contraindications, interactions, pregnancy, children, serious side effects, or other safety-critical claims, search official sources with /web/search using FDA, DailyMed, or MedlinePlus domains, then read the exact returned page with /web/scrape when available. Match the drug name, form, route, and product identity. FDA resources point consumers to FDA-approved patient labeling, Drugs@FDA, DailyMed, and NIH MedlinePlus; use GoodRx as an accessible secondary explanation, not as a replacement for those sources.
  • If official material cannot be found or matched, label the point GoodRx-only or not independently verified. Do not bridge a missing population, formulation, or product with an assumption.
  • Keep source statements separate from your plain-language summary. Preserve the exact source section, link, publication/review date, and retrieval time. A GoodRx list of condition-related medicines, FAQ, or alternative is not evidence that a drug is appropriate for a particular person.
  • Do not give patient-specific dosing or interaction advice, advise starting, stopping, switching, or combining medicines, interpret symptoms, or replace a clinician/pharmacist. Refer those decisions to a qualified professional; urgent symptoms require local emergency help.
  • Do not compare coupon prices in this skill; use prescription-price-research for user-requested price comparisons.
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-guides topic=interactions letter=t
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-guide slug=torsemide topic=interactions
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-topics section=well-being
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-articles section=well-being topic=sleep page=1 page_size=10
scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/health-article path=well-being/sleep/cbd-for-sleep
scripts/crawlora.sh -X POST /web/search '{"q":"FDA atorvastatin label interactions","include_domains":["fda.gov","dailymed.nlm.nih.gov"],"limit":5}'
scripts/crawlora.sh -X POST /web/scrape '{"url":"https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/find-information-about-drug","formats":["markdown"]}'

The deliverable should identify the question and population, summarize the relevant GoodRx page and any official cross-check, link every source, retain review/publication dates, and list unsupported or conflicting claims. A source page or scraped summary is not a personalized medical answer.