Gaykar/DrugData

Drug Description Dataset (Educational Use)

Dataset Overview

This dataset contains 985 samples of drug-related information intended strictly for educational and research purposes.

Each sample consists of:

• DrugName – Name of the drug
• Description – A textual description of the drug

The dataset is suitable for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on drug-related text understanding, summarization, or question-answering tasks in a non-clinical setting.

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Data Source & Generation

• Drug names were manually selected by the author using publicly available medical information websites.
• Descriptions were synthetically generated using Google Gemini based on the selected drug names.

Reference websites used for drug names:

• https://www.rxlist.com/
• https://www.drugs.com/

⚠️ The generated descriptions are not verified by medical professionals.

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Dataset Structure

Column Name	Description
DrugName	Name of the drug
Description	Textual description of the drug

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Intended Use

✅ Allowed:

• Educational experiments
• NLP research
• Fine-tuning LLMs
• Text generation and understanding tasks

❌ Not Allowed:

• Clinical decision-making
• Medical diagnosis
• Treatment recommendations
• Real-world healthcare applications

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Disclaimer

⚠️ This dataset is not suitable for real medical use.
The information provided may be incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated.
Do not rely on this dataset for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

You are free to:

• Share
• Adapt
• Use for commercial and non-commercial purposes

Attribution is required.

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Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it appropriately:

@dataset{drug_description_dataset,
  title = {Drug Description Dataset for Educational LLM Fine-Tuning},
  author = {Your Name},
  year = {2025},
  license = {CC BY 4.0}
}