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license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
  - medical
  - healthcare
  - drug-information
  - llm-training
size_categories:
  - n<1K

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.


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:

⚠️ The generated descriptions are not verified by medical professionals.


Dataset Structure

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

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

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The information provided may be incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated.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.


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.


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}
}