Findings from the FDA adverse event reports
Each finding answers one question about all the reports with a table. A program writes the sentences from the figures with fixed rules. No finding ranks a drug, a device or a manufacturer.
- Reaction terms by number of reports, 12 months to June 2026: In the 12 months to June 2026, the reaction term in the most drug reports was Off label use: 79,953 reports.
- Drug and device reports that FDA received, by year: FDA received 1,307,769 drug reports in 2025 and 1,319,106 in 2024.
- Device reports by FDA panel, 12 months to September 2026: In the 12 months to September 2026, the panel with the most device reports was Clinical Chemistry: 1,093,138 reports.
- Who sends drug and device reports to FDA: Reports from consumers or other non-health professionals were 45.8% of the 20,646,523 drug reports that FDA received from January 2004 to June 2026.
Each month, the edition of October 2026 keeps the first rows of the first table of each finding. Every monthly edition.
A report is not proof that a medicine or a device was the cause of an event. The pages of the findings carry the statements of FDA on the data. The data have 4 findings today.